"Bearable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... modified their structure a lot—suppose it had been fifty times as great as it is? What would they have been like? Also, their atmosphere is very similar to ours in composition, and their temperature is bearable. It is my opinion that atmosphere and temperature have more to do with evolution than anything else, and that the mass of the ...
— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith
... he had not been married before, but the same rule no doubt held good of marriage. If he held on to it, something more bearable would come of it. Then one could be out of the house a good deal, and there was the regiment. He began to see his way through marriage as a man sees his way through a gap in an awkward fence. The unfortunate part of it was that he couldn't get through the gap unless ...
— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome
... watching a black wall of cloud covered with fleecy masses, which rests on the bank to our right, and seems half inclined to sweep over us with one of those refreshing pelts of which we had a succession last night. It is this habit of showers which renders the vicinity of the Line more bearable than the summer heat of other parts within the Tropics. However, the cloud sticks to the shore, so I have come down to write ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
... grind!" he exclaimed disgustedly. "Say, Parry, I don't know what's got into you, but I want you to come home with me for the Easter holidays. It'll do you good. We'll be on the Hudson, you know, and we'll manage to make life bearable somehow." ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... face, though; they served to make a horribly monotonous journey more bearable, and on an average he was in grief, some way or another, ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
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