Stuck it out

Usage examples of lasted.

You shall hear the history of an amour that lasted for two years with the fairest and the best of all the nuns of Venice.

The calm lasted but a short time, and a stiff wind from the west-northwest began to blow, with the result that the sea became very rough, and I was very ill.

I was not long uncertain, for the instinctive movements she made when she felt the minister that would fain accomplish the sacrifice at the door of the sanctuary, convinced me that her dream still lasted, and that I could not make her happier than by changing it into reality.

I left Riga with the thermometer indicating fifteen degrees of frost, but though I travelled day and night, not leaving the carriage for the sixty hours for which my journey lasted, I did not feel the cold in the least.

The House of Bourbon and the House of Hapsburg had been foes for two hundred and forty years when this famous treaty was concluded, but it only lasted for forty years, and it is not likely that any treaty will last longer between two courts so essentially opposed to one another.

Leonilda had already turned my first feeling of admiration into something much warmer, and the opera, which lasted for five hours, seemed over in a moment.

My fair neighbour, at the end of the game, which lasted four hours, found herself the gainer of a few sequins, but the officer, who had played on his word of honour, after losing all the money in his pockets, owed ten louis.

My cure had only lasted three weeks, but I was not able to put the hand to any active employment for eighteen months afterwards.

After a supper which lasted two hours, and during which I must certainly have won the admiration of my host, I asked him to bring me the bill.

Madame Morin took leave of her niece, and the handshakings, thanks, and promises of remembrance between me and the nuns, lasted for a good quarter of an hour.

This reserve of mine which lasted for the fortnight we stayed in Dresden was mortifying for all the young officers in the place, and especially for the Comte de Bellegarde, who was not accustomed to being denied any girl to whom he chose to take a fancy.

My stay lasted for a fortnight, during which time I was able to examine the manners and customs of the Aragonese, who were not subject to the ordinances of the Marquis of Aranda, as long cloaks and low hats were to be seen at every corner.

Gilbert kept me in a kind of enchantment which lasted while I was in company with her friends, for whom I did not care.

Valavero, a man of talent, who had just left the ministry of war, his term of office having lasted the usual six months.

Silence lasted rather a long time, but that unnatural felicity was imperfect, and increased my excitement.