All the burden of the day-the heat, the languor, the scorching thirst of the fields, the brazen blue of the sky, the stillness as of a suspended breath which wrapt the town-all these things had passed into the intolerableness of his desire.
"Virginia"
Ellen Glasgow
Conceive the intolerableness, if you are at all sensitive, of being watched by eyes so sharp and prying, so eager to note the least change of expression and to use the conclusions drawn for personal ends that nothing, absolutely nothing, escapes them.
"The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight"
Elizabeth von Arnim
She proposed to do this closing at the first moment of sheer intolerableness, and that moment seemed well reached when she entered Creeper Cottage and realized what the attic, the kitchen, and the pump really meant.
"The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight"
Elizabeth von Arnim