Peshawur, the greatest garrison in northern India, was there on sufferance, apparently.

Even this ground you hold only on the sufferance of the Earthmen.

You were taken in here on sufferance and against my better judgment.

Time and tide, as they say, intoned the cardinal with lofty sufferance.

Yes, it incited her to worry Wilfred beyond sufferance in his holidays.

Hitherto their kingdom had existed precariously, and as it were by sufferance.

The new ministry, which existed largely on sufferance, passed some good measures.

She, as a woman, owed the other woman more sufferance than that.

Besides, this is not the king's highway; 'tis a way upon sufferance.

Jim Travers and Tom Gordon were occupying their single room on sufferance.

They don't want ladies, and we shall only be there on sufferance.'

To stay where he was not wanted, on a sort of sufferance-never

They had power, but they existed on sufferance in New Crobuzon.

Today, it is viewed as a privilege, which many possess only under sufferance.

The old lady had apparently been living on the place simply through sufferance.

You know we are allowed to live underground upon sufferance only.