Citations:intolerable


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now the substance of these laws this rebel has broken, not only in thought, (which is not to be borne), but also in word and deed; which must therefore needs be intolerable.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable.
 * Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me, but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations.
 * But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be — a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.