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Example sentences for "domestic life"

  • It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

  • All had open fronts, so that the occupations of the inmates, the "domestic life" in fact, were perfectly visible.

  • They are certainly superior to many aborigines, as they have an approach to domestic life.

  • In this view it is desirable to be introduced into the privacies of domestic life.

  • This seems to be the first of a little cluster of proverbs bearing on domestic life.

  • Therefore, in justice to her, the purity of her ideals of feminine perfection and her respect for the sanctity of domestic life should be clearly established.

  • After this short interruption to their semi-domestic life, they both resumed their old habits.

  • The women were to be carefully classified and separated, and trained for the duties of domestic life.

  • Yet it is not too much to attribute the chief vexations of domestic life to their character and conduct.

  • On the slightest signal of the approaching foe, they would flee with precipitation: ten times a day the quiet of domestic life would be broken by the fears, feigned or real, of the workmen.

  • Thus, the youth goes from the family into the school, without painful or sudden contrast, and remains under a system of things which suits his age and which is a continuation, only enlarged, of domestic life.

  • Never, since the Revolution, has the State so vigorously affirmed its omnipotence, nor pushed in encroachments on and intrusion into the proper domain of the individual so far, even to the very center of domestic life.

  • Houssaie gives the following authentic notice drawn from the registers of the court, which presents a curious account of domestic life in the fifteenth century.

  • The promises and the caresses of the wily Jesuits were rejected; and the gush of tears of the brothers, on his return to the religion of his fathers, is one of the most pathetic incidents of domestic life.

  • To enjoy the meal Men congregated in the populous towns, And cities flourish'd which we cooks adorn'd With all the pleasures of domestic life.

  • We have not surely been losers by this change; the fading glories of romance have vanished, but the real permanent pleasures of domestic life remain in their stead; and what the fair have lost of adulation they have gained in friendship.

  • But you are apprehensive that the desire to govern, which women show in domestic life, should obtain a larger field to display itself in public affairs.

  • The countenance expressive of sober sense and modest reserve continues to be the taste of the English, who wisely prefer the pleasures of domestic life.

  • The spirit of the Renaissance first brought order into domestic life, treating it as a work of deliberate contrivance.

  • He also wrote an Italian treatise on domestic life in four books; and even a funeral oration on his dog.

  • The cultivators of science and art do not meet on equal terms with others, in domestic life.

  • Among the continental nations, to accumulate wealth in the spirit of a capitalist does not seem to form the prime object of domestic life.

  • The three Caraccis refused the conjugal bond on the same principle, dreading the interruptions of domestic life.

  • But his extraordinary memoirs, while they show an intrepid mind in a robust frame, bear witness to the self-tormentor who had trodden down the natural bonds of domestic life.

  • There is not much to chronicle in the peaceful flow of domestic life, and, truth to say, the charm of Richfield is largely in its restfulness.

  • Here, then, is a sacred right that ought to be respected, and can be respected without any injury to domestic life.

  • The explanation of this is on the surface, and it is the key to half the unhappiness in domestic life.

  • He says: "In every age and country the wiser, or at least the stronger of the two sexes, has usurped the powers of the state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

  • With Eastern nations the veil was the sign of retirement, of domestic life, and it was assumed by wives when they were in the street or in a public assembly.

  • Native and honorable Greek women retired to domestic life as the liberty of their people grew.

  • The price of labor, even now higher in this country than in any other, will rise still higher, and thus complicate still more the problem of domestic life.

  • But after all, I still say that the quarter to which I look for the solution of the American problem of domestic life is a wise use of the principle of association.

  • Now if ever there was a community which needed to study the art of living, it is our American one; for at present, domestic life is so wearing and so oppressive as seriously to affect health and happiness.

  • A suite of elegant apartments, a courier, and one female servant were the foundation of domestic life.

  • The martial elegists show how woman could still inspire man to deeds of valor, but the erotic poets give us glimpses of the root of the evil that was undermining the very foundations of domestic life.

  • Filled with incidents of domestic life in heroic times, the Odyssey presents us a galaxy of women, if not more impressive, at any rate more brilliant than that of the Iliad.

  • The Athenian ladies much preferred the worship of Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and of domestic life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable depth; dear teacher; domestic affairs; domestic animals; domestic architecture; domestic cattle; domestic economy; domestic happiness; domestic labor; domestic life; domestic relations; domestic satellite; domesticated animals; four days; fresh horse; half pounds; healed them; like himself; menstruous women; moral duty; observations made; occasion required; right thing; she might; thought she; watering places