sufferance

I can go on, of course, only by your sufferance.

Where the hell do you get off talking to anyone about sufferance?

Call her before us, for We have been too slight in sufferance.

It is the age of man, and we exist at his sufferance.

Charles was only here on sufferance, not a member of the club.

So she told him he only enjoyed it on sufferance.

Could it be that people existed only upon its sufferance?

If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.

Said this was a civilian hospital and we were all here on sufferance.

"You only wear them, and on the sufferance of free men."

But I'm not prepared to stay on here under sufferance, knowing that we'd have to go in the end.

They live only on the sufferance granted them by my cousin.

It seems to me that since we're here on their sufferance, we'd better think first about how they're judging us.

Most of the places have closed and you go to the others strictly on sufferance.

For a while, the congregation was only allowed the use of the building by legal sufferance.

You're here under sufferance and only so long as you live up to our agreement!"

We all work at the sufferance of the people.

Peer would run it on sufferance, paying for its running time himself.

We are here on sufferance only, allied against a greater enemy.

"After this little trick you people are here on sufferance.

I understand that, like it or not, we survive at their sufferance, They can destroy us.

Manning knew he was there only by sufferance, should have kept his mouth shut.

She no longer needs me; I am in her house only by her sufferance.

"And apparently the emperor serves at the sufferance of the king, also."

She knows that she lives at the sufferance of her husband's family.