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- Sissie is Frikkie's sister who cannot abide life on the farm. She has been taught to accept apartheid. Constantly bothers Tengo to make him feel more like a servant. Real name is Henrietta.
- He quits his job rather than be Judy's caddie as he cannot abide acting as one of her obsequious servants.
- Amy Porter (Grahame), a widow who runs the boardinghouse and loves Tate, tells him she cannot abide his feelings for an Indian woman instead.
- Despite having remarried, she still carries a flame for James and cannot abide the thought of him settling down with anyone else.
- The brambles are used to protect young trees from grazers and when the trees grow up, they permanently out-shade the blackberry patches; blackberries cannot abide deep shade.
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