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Meanings of less patience in English

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Usage of less patience in English
1
He endures pleasures with less patience than other men do their pains.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
2
Already, Barra and her senior executives are showing less patience with losers.
Reuters
3
As a result, I had less patience for Bob than usual.
The World According to Bob
4
Author Jessica Valenti, founder of the blog Feministing.com, had less patience with critics.
Reuters
5
It was a skill for which I had little talent and less patience.
Shadow men
6
Hence he had less and less patience with New England.
Children of the Market Place
7
The Israeli establishment has less and less patience for activists of any kind of late.
The Guardian
8
I wish the sun would rise with less patience.
The buried giant
9
But the orderly had even less patience than discretion.
Our Pilots in the Air
10
Mr. Fountain, then, who, in virtue of his sex, had the less patience, broke ground.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
11
But, my dear, I have less patience than love.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part
12
Kate, being half Highland, had less patience than Marget.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
13
The more I think of her nonsense and obstinacy, the less patience I have with her.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
14
He had even less patience for business matters.
Wired
15
I never could endure them, and I shall have less patience with them in future than ever.
Four Girls at Chautauqua
16
I have little time and less patience.
The darkest road
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