What is "durable"

Usage examples of "durable".

My vagrant fancy shewed me her naked form, all seemed ravishing, and yet I thought that though she might inspire a passing fancy she could not arouse a durable affection.

Even Dees, who had shown himself to be the most durable among them, was beginning to tire.

The overall impression is fairly homogeneous: serious, durable, liveable, but imaginative.

The kerchief, like the brolly he carried slung from his shoulder, was a simple, versatile, and durable piece of gear with any number of survival uses.

In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals.

The combined writing and copying fluids, and the copying fluids on the other hand if properly made, may be justly recommended where permanency is the first requisition, particularly the older ones, which should be the most durable of all nut-gall and iron inks, because in them particularly concentration is aimed at, and the iron need not necessarily, and should not, be in excess of that required to combine with the tannin present.

This was far more durable, however, and heated with recirculation systems to make him comfortable .

But in the intervals of inspiration, and they may be frequent without being durable, a poet becomes a man, and is abandoned to the sudden reflux of the influences under which others habitually live.

She could have written her terse note on paper, but wood was more durable.

The matter turned, he learned as he read, on whether the goods exchanged for the undelivered goods were perishable, consumable, or durable.

The wool is incredibly durable, and the colors made from bark from Bhutan, green nutshells, and vegetable juices, remain fresh for ages.

The earliest burnt bricks known are those found on the sites of the ancient cities of Babylonia, and it seems probable that the method of making strong and durable bricks, by burning blocks of dried clay, was discovered in this corner of Asia.

It was made possible of course by the incredibly light but durable multi-use fabrics that their mills ground out, apparently from the flaxlike material which was left over when they had extracted the food from their crops.

If it is to be durable constant care will be required, for nature never gives up its rights and reasserts them when the constraint of man is withdrawn.

His stag lifted its front two legs and pawed the air, its bi-hooves glinting like glass, though they were a hardier material, hornlike and durable.