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Sentences starting with existence

Existence was decorous, marriage an irrevocable step, wives were wives, and the Authorized Version of the Bible was true from cover to cover. [9]
Existence had promised Barbara higher things, but she seemed to have found the power to be content. [10]

Sentences ending with existence

The world is wide, and a cousin or two more or less can hardly be considered an essential of existence. [6]
Florette now knew what her son had experienced in life, what had moved his heart, his soul, and could not contradict him, when he told her that power was the highest prize of existence. [10]
In these ranks were certain maiden ladies and widows who found in church work an outlet to an otherwise circumscribed existence. [9]
Sometimes, on her walks and drives, she saw people bowing to her, and recognized friends or acquaintances of what seemed to her like a former existence. [9]
It has been vouchsafed to many even in the midst of life to be born again to a higher existence. [10]
Where did this virile, blood-full, throbbing Russian literature come from; this Russian painting of Verestchagin, that smites us like a sword with the consciousness of the tremendous meaning of existence? [4]
If your lifeless victims yonder were human beings, after all, they would have cause to thank you; for what is existence? [10]
What of true value, what of peace and security was contained in her present existence? [9]
It was not until she reached out and seized my hand, convulsively, that I realized she was still a part of my existence. [9]
He could now understand his father's tales of his Majesty's better days, his vigorous manly strength and eager delight in existence. [10]

Sentences containing existence two or more times

Before Crozier came she had enjoyed existence as existence, wondering often why it was she wanted to spring up from the ground with the idea that she could fly, if she chose to try. [11]
In the time of the Athenians Beauty governed life, but in you I can see that the gods are pleased to give it a bodily existence, even in our own days, and to look at you reconciles me to the discords of existence. [10]
It was still in existence when the railway was introduced into New Zealand; still in existence, and carrying the mails. [5]
Much, which I have staked my nightly sleep and the very marrow of my existence to bring into existence, will be annihilated. [10]

More example sentences with the word existence in them

In one of your chapters I found this chance: "In our high Parisian existence, for instance, we find applied to arts and luxury, and to debauchery, all the powers and all the weaknesses of the French soul. [5]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
My existence, as you know, is an uncertain quantity, and may be cut short at any moment in the ordinary course of things. [11]
The labour which you have shirked, which is now hidden from you, will be disclosed, you will justify your existence by taking your place as an element of the community. [9]
All the adults would marry or pair, and all the offspring, as far as that was possible, would be reared; so that the struggle for existence would be periodically excessively severe. [1]
To him a woman was the supreme interest of existence, apart from making a necessary living. [11]
An old nurse who saw him at the very earliest period of his existence is said to have spoken of him as one of the most promising infants she had seen in her long experience. [6]
And it was while he was in the midst of an anecdote proving the existence of this quality in his friend that he felt a sudden clutch on his arm. [9]
The year 1809, which introduced me to atmospheric existence, was the birth-year of Gladstone, Tennyson, Lord Houghton, and Darwin. [6]
Though the two were generally at a distance, their existence made itself felt again and again either through letters or presents or by their coming to Berlin, which always brought holidays for us. [10]
His last days were evidently passed in a struggle for existence, which was not so bitter to him as it might have been to another man, for he was sustained by ever-elating "great expectations. [4]
Mr. Gould is well known to admit the existence of few varieties, for he esteems very slight differences as specific; yet he states (36. [1]
As she got well her help diminished the strain on her two friends, and in the beginning of March a call came to the widow which, if she followed it, must give their simple existence a new aspect. [10]
Where we suppose we have the constitutional right, we restrain ourselves in reference to the actual existence of the institution and the difficulties thrown about it. [7]
Whether Old Phelps was still in existence, we couldn't tell: we could get no response from him. [4]
Yet if there was one goddess, did not that admit the probability of the existence of all the others? [10]
His whole existence was a venture of life, and, had he had ten to lose, they would not have been too dear a price to him to win Ledscha. [10]
If so, here was a side of him the existence of which no one suspected. [9]
With them he was a man speaking to his fellow-man, instead of a despot speaking with creatures whose very existence was the plaything of his own caprice. [10]
It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
But how much virtue and manhood it has can never be told until they are tried, and those who are first to doubt the prevailing existence of these qualities are not commonly themselves patterns of either. [6]
It was a vacuum where sensation was suspended, and the million facts of ordinary existence disappeared into inactivity. [11]
She was enthroned upon a heap of drift-wood, and when I caught sight of her face I forgot the very existence of the police captain. [9]
We seem lifted up into a purer atmosphere; we feel a serenity of soul, a buoyancy of spirits, an elasticity of frame, which render mere existence happiness. [4]
As Daphne's husband, under the same roof with the wonderfully invigorated Myrtilus, his Uncle Archias, and faithful Bias, Hermon found in the new home what had hovered before the blind man as the fairest goal of existence in art, love, and friendship. [10]
His imagination wavered uncertain for a while between pictures of various modes of ridding himself of existence, and fearful deeds involving the life of others. [6]
Whoever divides two trees which have grown from a single root, she said to herself, destroys at least one; but she would live, would be happy on the highest summit of existence. [10]
As to impressions transmitted at a very early period of existence, every one knows the story of King James's fear of a naked sword, and the way it is accounted for. [6]
Striking as this train may unfold itself in her character, and as pre-eminent as it may stand among the fair display of her other qualities, yet there is another, which struggles into existence, and adds an additional luster to what she already possesses. [5]
Intramural aestivation, or town-life in summer, he would say, is a peculiar form of suspended existence, or semi-asphyxia. [6]
Fear, anxiety and torturing doubt had from the first saddened Anna's existence with the unprincipled adventurer and gambler, who had succeeded in beguiling her young, experienced heart. [10]
The slow, stammering tongue of an almost silent existence had found the fulness of speech. [11]
A thousand voices told her that she lived in his soul, as much as he did in hers, that his existence without her must be barren and imperfect. [10]
Then he turned to the past, and while he himself, as it were, lived through for the second time the most affecting moment in his existence, he transported his friend to his dead mother's sick-bed. [10]
For what?--a sacrifice to the gods you have offended in your classic existence? [11]
We are indebted to the arts of the heathen for a thousand things in daily use, beside numberless others that lend charm to existence. [10]
I am disposed to take his denial as being like an answer in chancery, that he neither had any knowledge, information, or belief in the existence of such a conspiracy. [7]
It is painful to relate that the irregularity and deceit of the life the Vicomte was leading amused her, for existence at Silverdale was plainly not of a kind to make a gentleman of the Vicomte's temperament and habits ecstatically happy. [9]
Their tendency is to reject the truth which is generally accepted, and to accept the improbable; if the impossible offers itself, they deny the existence of the impossible. [6]
He immediately begins to put out his moral feelers into the unknown and the infinite to discover what sort of an existence this is into which he has come. [4]
While devoting himself to nursing his friend, he had thought far less of the new love-happiness which, in spite of her swift flight, was probably awaiting him through Althea than of the work which was to fill his existence in the immediate future. [10]
I gave everything to my sovereign, and if he wants my life also," she continued with fresh emotion, "he may have it; but the existence of a caged bird!--that will destroy me. [10]
Fate had only to make his foot slip one little inch or decree that a wasp should sting him on the finger to put an end to his existence. [10]
I will try to imitate you, and rise above the half-heartedness which is the bane of existence, and which makes the firm path of life a trembling, swaying bridge. [10]
The others appeared to have no existence for her. [10]
She was beginning to feel that she had lived two lives, and that this life had no direct or vital bearing upon her previous existence, in which David had moved. [11]
We are used to atmospheric existence, and can hardly conceive of ourselves except as breathing creatures. [6]
There is enough to account for them in that unconsciously remembered period of existence before we have learned the hard limitations of real life. [6]
We are trying to "realize" to ourselves the importance of the 12th of October as an anniversary of our potential existence. [4]
At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence. [9]
Remember, that at thy death, which may the gods long avert, I shall represent the existence of this glorious land as thou dost now; my fall will be the ruin of thine house, of Egypt! [10]
One of the, three nonagenarians before referred to expressed himself as having a great curiosity about the new sphere of existence to which he was looking forward. [6]
The breach that threatened our country's existence is healed now. [9]
Like this--just like this--was every earthly pleasure, every joy of this brief existence. [10]
But besides all this, if the Bank were struck from existence, could not the owners of the capital still loan it usuriously, as well as now? [7]
But in writing this paper I feel as if I were preparing to begin a renewed existence. [6]
Not that she thinks me a Le Notre"--Alison laughed--"What I mean is, she sees behind, she sees why it is fashionable to have a garden, since she has worked out the values of that existence. [9]
I do not think many persons are aware of the existence of this mark,--little having been said about the story in print, as it was considered very desirable, for the sake of the Institution, to hush it up. [6]
The hypnotized wild thing--hypnotized by its own vague instincts, or by something outside itself-became to her as the Sphinx to the Egyptian, the everlasting question of existence. [11]
I can imagine their placid existence if the Prince should not appear, and I can well believe that Irene and Stanhope would have many a tumultuous passage in the passionate symphony of their lives. [4]
People hold up their hands at a moral monster as if there was no reason for his existence but his own choice. [6]
To completely deny their existence would hardly be possible even for you, because their persons have found a place in your imagination. [10]
That is what the Young Doctor had; but he knew it was not easy to forget those scenes in which man carved the body of fellow-man, laying bare the very vitals of existence, seeing "the wheels go round. [11]
And now had the whole world reached such a boundary line in existence beyond which there was to be no more freedom and careless joy--where a ceaseless struggle for higher things must begin and never end? [10]
I care for the whim, then, of coming to and fro and reminding her of my existence. [12]
It might mean the very question of England's existence as an empire. [11]
And yet, for the time being, it had seemed attractive to him, this simple vegetable existence, whose only object was preparation for death by the extinction of all passion and desire. [4]
Swift's account of the Struldbrugs is not very amusing reading for old people, but some may find it a consolation to reflect on the probable miseries they escape in not being doomed to an undying earthly existence. [6]
We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. [7]
The life of the soul, in conscious union with the Infinite, shall be for thee the only real existence. [6]
Until that moment the revolt had been personal, local, founded on a particular grievance which had to do with wages and the material struggle for existence. [9]
This was what the purchase meant, a change of existence as complete as that between the moth and the butterfly; and the realization of this fact, of the audacity she was resolved to commit made her hot as she gazed at the suit. [9]
In any case, the one man who had known of the existence of this spring was far away from Jansen, and he did not return till a day of reckoning came for the Faith Healer. [11]
In the autumn the observation of the chrysalis state of insects was connected with that of the various stages of their existence. [10]
At any rate the necessary deduction must be that the life of man ends in that nothingness whence everything in existence has proceeded. [10]
The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow.--All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence. [6]
She was living the life of a British woman, she was as much a Gorgio in her daily existence as this man be side her. [11]
At length, however, the jealousies of the laity and the clergy, a squabble like that of "town and gown," but with graver underlying causes, broke up the harmony and practically ended the existence of the place except as a monument of the past. [6]
Myrtle was conscious, the instant she looked upon Clement Lindsay, of the existence of some peculiar relation between them; but what, she could not tell. [6]
As soon as the important faculties of the imagination, wonder, and curiosity, together with some power of reasoning, had become partially developed, man would naturally crave to understand what was passing around him, and would have vaguely speculated on his own existence. [1]
Upon the instant the great Earl was incensed out of all proportion to the affront of the Seigneur's existence. [11]
The historian of the future need look no farther than our houses (if any remain), to be satisfied that we had more than the necessities of existence. [9]
The victories of the French at Jena and Auerstadt destroy the independent existence of Prussia. [2]
When I beheld the first Persians scale the walls of Sardis, I execrated myself and the gods, life appeared odious to me, existence a curse. [10]
Idealism only denies the existence of matter; it does not satisfy the demands of the spirit. [6]
In fact, with the exception of M. Guizot, no one ever obtained permission of me to publish translations, and I never knew of the existence of them until I read of it in the journals. [6]
If we continued the discussion, perhaps it might pleasantly shorten the next few hours, which I dread as I do my whole future existence, but I should be obliged in the outset to yield the victory to you. [10]
The state of the count's affairs became quite obvious a month after his death, surprising everyone by the immense total of small debts the existence of which no one had suspected. [2]
Never, never, to the close of his existence could he forget that face! [10]
Its wad was the charter of our national existence. [6]
Facing her was the agent, the genius, the Man who had snatched her from that existence, who had at his command these delights to bestow. [9]
In view of the actual struggle for existence she saw around her, this talk seemed like cant. [4]
The vision of the "inward eye" was so intensified in this moment of peril that an instant was like an hour of common existence. [6]
The first is that which the young lady hinted at;--that these flashes are sudden recollections of a previous existence. [6]
Snatched from all that was familiar in his daily existence, he seemed to grow dizzy and seek support beyond himself. [10]
The memory of that visit to Silliston lingered in her mind, sometimes to flare up so vividly as to make her existence seem unbearable. [9]
It is true that the vast body of that which we read is ephemeral, and justifies its existence by its obvious use for information, recreation, and entertainment. [4]
It is wonderful that the conditions of our existence may wholly change without a seeming strangeness. [9]
I have observed that passion awakens life, that all existence is a conflict, that one being devours another. [10]
It is likely that mine is now the only copy in existence. [5]

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