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Live with   /laɪv wɪð/   Listen
Live with

verb
1.
Tolerate or accommodate oneself to.  Synonyms: accept, swallow.  "I swallowed the insult" , "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"






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... back to Horton, but set up house in London. Here he began to teach his two nephews, his sister's children, who were boys of nine and ten. Their father had died, their mother married again, and Milton not only taught the boys, but took them to live with him. He found pleasure, it would seem, in teaching, for soon his little class grew, and he began to teach other boys, ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... Margaret! She did not like the dark or the cold. Ere many days had passed away, she thought it would be better to live with Hynde Etin than to stay longer alone in ...
— Stories from the Ballads - Told to the Children • Mary MacGregor

... had already given to the Church men like Firmilian and Gregory Thaumaturgus. Basil was born about 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia. While he was still a child, the family removed to Pontus; but he soon returned to Cappadocia to live with his mother's relations, and seems to have been brought up by his grandmother Macrina. Eager to learn, he went to Constantinople and spent four or five years there and at Athens, where he had Gregory (q.v.) of Nazianzus for a fellow-student. Both men were deeply influenced by Origen, and ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various

... secretly, given Rhodopis her freedom, and loved her far too well to allow of a separation. She too, loved the handsome Lesbian and refused to leave him despite the brilliant offers made to her on all sides. At length Charaxus made this wonderful woman his lawful wife, and continued to live with her and her little daughter Kleis in Naukratis, until the Lesbian exiles were recalled to their native land by Pittakus. He then started homeward with his wife, but fell ill on the journey, and died soon after his arrival at Mitylene. Sappho, who had derided her ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... the little fellow has you for a friend, father.—I'll tell you; if Sosthene and his wife will part with him, and you will take him to live with you, and, mark you, not try too hard to make a priest of him, I will bear ...
— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable


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