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Don Miguel de Castro, a black envoy from the African kingdom of Kongo to the Dutch court, looks forbearingly out at us from under his absurd Rembrandtesque hat.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2018

That fall and winter, Long forbearingly shepherded me through rewrites of the papers he assigned, and incrementally I started to get the hang of it.

From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2015

Jimmie Reese sighs forbearingly at all this, camped on a folding chair behind a batting cage near an orange grove, counting pitches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alcide de Gasperi disdains the theatrical and the violent, speaks softly, listens forbearingly, sits out crises patiently, and acts unhurriedly with an extraordinary instinct for timing.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Thank you,” said poor Phyllis forbearingly; “we have not made our plans about Lily yet.”

From Modern Broods by Charlotte Mary Yonge




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