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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

The third story, We're Friends Again, is elegiac; Malloy is moved by the death of a meddlesome woman to reflect forbearingly on his own life and that of his acquaintances.

From Time Magazine Archive

We walk through Highbury, we are patronized by Mrs. Elton, listen forbearingly to the indefatigable Miss Bates, and take an early walk to the post-office with Jane Fairfax.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various




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