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Example sentences for "life and"

  • I cannot express it in any other way than to say that I did 'lie down in the stream of life and let it flow over me.

  • The pride of life and glory of the world will shrivel.

  • The dream of an unconditional personal freedom, that hazy American version of utopia, would remain central throughout Anderson's life and work.

  • The talk of the town and the respect with which men and boys instinctively greeted him, as all men greet silent people, had affected Seth Richmond's outlook on life and on himself.

  • Never did he succeed in getting what he wanted out of life and he did not know what he wanted.

  • He will tell me what place David is to take in life and when he shall set out on his journey.

  • As a merchant Ebenezer was not happily placed in life and he had not been happily placed as a farmer.

  • He is not capable of large grasps, but he has poet's life and blood in him, I assure you.

  • His plan of life and duty, and the sense of responsibility attendant on it, had been communicated to Madame du Quaire in a letter written also from St.-Enogat.

  • It has been very, very painful altogether, this drawing together of life and death.

  • Richard Baxter seems to have been on familiar and intimate terms with various members of the family, and makes frequent mention of them in his 'Life and Times.

  • To constitute the millionth part of a Legislature, by voting for one or two men once in three or five years, however conscientiously this duty may be performed, can exercise but little active influence upon any man's life and character.

  • Luther, in like manner, was inspired to undertake the great labours of his life by a perusal of the 'Life and Writings of John Huss.

  • My purpose in this," I replied, "is just entirely as serious as life and death, and you have understood me perfectly.

  • My eyes besides were still troubled, and my knees loose under me, with the distress of the late ordeal; and I could do no more than stammer the same form of words: "I put my life and credit in your hands.

  • The sled was the one point of life and motion in the midst of the solemn quietude, and the harsh churn of its runners but emphasized the silence through which it moved.

  • With head and hand, at risk of life and limb, to bit and break a wild colt and win it to the service of man, was to him no less great an achievement.

  • It was a business proposition, a square deal between men who did not pursue each other, but who shared the risks of trail and river and mountain in the pursuit of life and treasure.

  • It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies.

  • I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do.

  • Mortal souls, behold a new cycle of life and mortality.

  • Then if the good and just man be thus superior in pleasure to the evil and unjust, his superiority will be infinitely greater in propriety of life and in beauty and virtue?

  • Now the first and greatest of necessities is food, which is the condition of life and existence.

  • Fire is the most powerful agent of life and death: the rapid mischief may be kindled and propagated by the industry or negligence of mankind; and every period of the Roman annals is marked by the repetition of similar calamities.

  • And thus, for a short remnant of life and power, will these aged priests endanger the peace and salvation of the Christian world.

  • He protested, that if the emperor should march against him, he would advance forty paces to kiss the ground before him; but in rising from this prostrate attitude Roger had a life and sword at the service of his friends.

  • In the choice of the attack, the French and Venetians were divided by their habits of life and warfare.

  • You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

  • To your guard I intrust my life and fortunes.

  • All the attributes of regal and territorial jurisdiction were gradually usurped by the commanders of the provinces; the right of peace and war, of life and death, of coinage and taxation, of foreign alliance and domestic economy.

  • For my part," replied the generous Malek, "I implored the Lord of Hosts that he would take from me my life and crown, if my brother be more worthy than myself to reign over the Moslems.

  • The profits are happiness and friendship--enjoyment of life and approbation.

  • Such a man had to do with more than his own mere life and living.

  • It was the way of life and of the world he knew.

  • Life and death he bore in his hands and head.

  • For let me tell you it's a cruel hard thing upon a man of my time of life and my position, to be brought down to beggary because the world is full of thieves and rascals--thieves and rascals.

  • I think (to employ a phrase of yours which I admire) it 'should be attributed' to you that you have never visited the scene of Damien's life and death.

  • His temperance and manual industry and his "extraordinary blamelessness in life and in every action" had been his source of preservation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after thinking; for our; for there; going out; life again; life away; life forms; life freely; life from; life history; life insurance; life interest; life itself; life saving; life seemed; life that; life unto; life was; life which; life worth; life would; object lesson; sacred thread; save sinners; special assistant; virtuous woman