Sunday's term was tenancy at sufferance, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Definitions] Reference
I live here on sufferance from the plants. From Wordnik.com. [john dillinger is alive and well and living in--] Reference
23: to particularize their abundance, our sufferance is a. From Wordnik.com. [Coriolanus (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
Could you live to be scorned -- live on sufferance?. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Patronage would thus be exercised only on sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
"To whom were you engaged in default of my sufferance?". From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
Thy bounty toward me beyond the sufferance of my devotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
I would not have held office by sufferance for a week. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
They resumed their humble position as traders on sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
These colonies we held, though we knew it not, on Boer sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
If Turkey is allowed to remain in Europe at all it will be on sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
The new ministry, which existed largely on sufferance, passed some good measures. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
Congress, whose powers were entirely undefined, and rested, in fact, on sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
Levi grunted, and Bob, paying a visit to the room on sufferance, snarled resentfully. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Shakspeare, scorning the sufferance of such a sneaking style, said "Wit whither wilt?". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
This film, or book, or song, is mine; anything you do with it, or to it, you do at my sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
I feel it is only my home now by sufferance, -- not such a home as you would choose for me, I am sure. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Why was humanity so jealous of its dominance that no other species could exist except by sufferance?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
It's about angry fans, fights in the stands, losing teams, long sufferance and stunted emotional growth. From Wordnik.com. [Fenway 'Fever'] Reference
It cannot be that the mass of our race only touch the earth by the sufferance of those who claim to own it. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
Either he has got to play the game or he has got to get out of the game, and I have no more sufferance for such. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
From 1706, the Newport Yearly Meeting had encouraged the collecting and recording of all cases of "sufferance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference
One of the extraordinary features of the American is his attitude toward the Chinese, who are taken on sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
"Applied also to the nose it cureth the disease called polypus, which by time and sufferance stoppeth the nostrils.". From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
His course in Washington had been a thorn in the side of the organization by whose sufferance he rose, with the upshot that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Also the bands of souldiers that came into the realme with Rafe de la Haie departed without impediment by the kings sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second] Reference
Perhaps Saddam Hussein, who demonstrated that U.N. inspectors are in Iraq at his sufferance, has not read those pieces of paper. From Wordnik.com. [Vapors And Serenity] Reference
Living, as we were, on sufferance in a foreign land for commercial purposes, armed men were only required to guard the factories. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
In the former era the double toll system was obliged to be suspended, and the no-toll system of this era is only a temporary sufferance. From Wordnik.com. [History of Steam on the Erie Canal] Reference
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