The idea of a classic is historically bound up with the view . . . that there are certain perdurable human truths and values, immune from geographical or historical vitiation. From LearnThat.org. [John Romano]
Send us your gladiators with herpes, and your perdurable impetus. From Wordnik.com. [Blawg Review #228 : Law is Cool] Reference
There was something perdurable in them as well as in her gaunt, sinewy frame. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Later, Dauphin decries his side's broken ranks: O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare on Games] Reference
Constant, entire, and still engenerable, as himself says, always like to itself, and perdurable in its being. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Nothing of them had persisted; nothing been real or lasting: her hand had caught the frayed edge of no perdurable garment. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Christina] Reference
Whence could such a being arise or into what could it disappear: the very word, strictly used, means that the thing is perdurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Convention dictates that we slot many of the last centuries' perdurable literary achievements into one or another of these categories. From Wordnik.com. [Sontag on Science Fiction] Reference
I have professed me thy friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness; I could never better stead thee than now. From Wordnik.com. [Othello, the Moore of Venice] Reference
By that they admit the existence of a simplex prior to the Activities; and they make the Activities perdurable and class them as substantial existences. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
In 1895, when a springlike sun had dispersed the snow clouds, the army decided upon a gala to honor some event or other in the life of their perdurable emperor. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
And this seems to be the nobler and the more perdurable relation. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
Allá está el continente europeo, con su perdurable primavera. From Wordnik.com. [Novelas Cortas] Reference
The economics of the future will be based upon these elemental and perdurable truths. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles] Reference
His own love was perdurable; how could it other than intensify when its object was so unhappy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
Love in a woman's voice -- what cynicism so perdurable that it will bear against that assailant?. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
London alderman ever insured her life with so sure return or perdurable interest as Madame Holden. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O] Reference
To whom Adrian said: Why callest thou them traitors, which be doctors and enseign the life perdurable?. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
Lord had taught and enseigned chastity entirely, and promised to them that kept it the life perdurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
Cæsar and said: Cæsar, here is tofore thee Paul the knight of the king perdurable, and not vanquished. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 4] Reference
But his face was set in a frown -- doubtless at the thought of the perdurable afflictions of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
Or he is said of tors, which is clarte, and of sedio sedis to sit, for he sitteth in the clearness perdurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
And S. Adrian appeared to her and saluted her, and commanded her that she should come with him to joy perdurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
She felt at once the fugitive character of its apparent existence, the perdurable Reality within which it was held. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People] Reference
That which the years had dyed, I dyed erewhen but, sooth to tell, My dye endureth not, whilst that of Time's perdurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
We should have fastened the branches of life together in long elastic wires of the thin-drawn gold of perdurable sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy] Reference
Then said S. Vital to him: Ha! Ursian, do not so, thou wert wont to heal other and now wilt deliver thyself to perdurable death. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 3] Reference
The Moors had built upon it and characterized it, but had not so masked it as to hide the perdurable physiognomy of the Roman work. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
Do you not perceive that the wisest and most perdurable of human institutions -- be they cities or tribes of men -- are ever the most. From Wordnik.com. [The Memorabilia] Reference
I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness; I could never better stead thee than now. From Wordnik.com. [Othello] Reference
But this also is vanity, there is one end appointed alike to all, fact goes the way of fiction, and what is known is no more perdurable than what is made. From Wordnik.com. [Style] Reference
A good enough one so far as this life is concerned, but unhappily it takes no account of another, a second and perdurable life without change of personality. From Wordnik.com. [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference
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