There was never yet philosopher, That could endure the tooth-ache patiently; However, they have writ the style of the gods, And made a pish at chance and sufferance.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
When the national Government, independently of the prerogatives inherent in its nature, is invested with the right of regulating the affairs which relate partly to the general and partly to the local interests, it possesses a preponderating influence. Not only are its own rights extensive, but all the rights which it does not possess exist by its sufferance, and it may be apprehended that the provincial governments may be deprived of their natural and necessary prerogatives by its influence.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
This to the guest admitted on board on sufferance, and not one word of it addressed, even by chance, to the owner of the yacht!英文原著 · 《Miss or Mrs》
The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.英文原著 · 《Ponkapog Papers》
This observation convinced me that the spirit of the old sharers of the spoil was not utterly departed even from the bosom of the peaceful Quaker; and I could not help confessing internally that Joshua had the right, when he averred that there was as much courage in sufferance as in exertion.英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
At length, when his powers of sufferance were quite worn out, and he was about to implore them to leave him to his fate in the first cottage or shed--or under a haystack or a hedge--or anywhere, so he was left at ease, Collier, who rode ahead, passed back the word that they were at the avenue to Fairladies--'Was he to turn up?'英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》