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Sentences starting with lives

Lives either in the air or in the perfumed pavilion of the fairest and sweetest flowers. [6]
Lives of Great Men. [6]
Lives perhaps were in the balance, but she was a woman, and who could tell what slight influences might turn the scale! [11]
Lives in Illinois, I reckon; but I don't care where she lives, I'm going to get her--she can make herself sure of that. [5]
Lives there one De Sauty extant now among you, Whispering Boanerges, son of silent thunder, Holding talk with nations? [6]

Sentences ending with lives

And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
I will tell you the brief tale of two lives. [11]
Once more among you the antique spirit lives. [11]
I believe with you that our love can bring all that is sweetest into our lives. [10]
I was conscious, yet for a time I had no thought: I was like something half animal, half vegetable, which feeds, yet has no mouth, nor sees, nor hears, nor has sense, but only lives. [11]
To the pumps, ye fools, if you would save your lives! [9]
Through all the wrongs which she may suffer by him, there runs this cable of unhappy attraction, testified to by how many sorrowful lives! [11]
The wine-cup sank with it, and we reached Samos with nothing but our lives. [10]
Now then, I will ask you where there is any sense in training people to lead virtuous lives. [5]
In great causes, what is a screw of tyranny here, a bolt of oppression there, or a few thousand lives! [11]

Short sentences using lives

If he lives to arrive. [9]
The President lives there. [5]
You saved our lives, really. [9]
If only he lives! [2]
One lives and learns. [5]
My sister lives in Carthage. [10]
Your mother lives here! [10]
He lives in Denver. [5]
Mother lives at Bath. [6]
He lives like a Prince. [5]

Sentences containing lives two or more times

It seemed to suggest the lives and the end of the lives of the workers of the pioneer world. [11]
Such is the pretended science of Homoeopathy, to which you are asked to trust your lives and the lives of those dearest to you. [3]
But who that lives in the tumult of the world can ever succeed in 'killing himself' in their sense of the word, in dying while yet he lives, to be born again, a new man? [10]
Yet while the friendship lives, it lives. [11]
And having given all save their lives, these lives they must now give under the whip and the chain and the sword. [11]

More example sentences with the word lives in them

Another one tells you that this is an exaggeration; that the two chief villages, Port Louis and Curepipe, fall short of heavenly perfection; that nobody lives in Port Louis except upon compulsion, and that Curepipe is the wettest and rainiest place in the world. [5]
It was told you by some old beau who lives upon the memory of the past. [9]
I love New York, because, as in Paris, everybody that lives in it feels that it is his property,--at least, as much as it is anybody's. [6]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
With what tender yet pitiless hand had she laid bare the lives of her husband and her son! [11]
I did not yet grasp the synthesis he had made of them all, but I saw them now all focussed in him elements he had drawn from human lives and human experiences. [9]
Through the long years of their lives together, he would never know. [9]
Again, old Mr. Wright, who lives up South Fork somewhere, is teasing me continually about some deeds which he says he left with you, but which I can find nothing of. [7]
He said he would live to be avenged; said he would make our lives a curse to us. [5]
Mine is a world apart, where one acts and lives and sings the passion and sorrows and joys of others--all unreal, unreal. [11]
Hodder read every word of these, and all were in the same strain: at last they could perceive a meaning to religion, an application of it to such plodding lives as theirs . [9]
He's broken a woman's heart and spoilt her life, and, if he lives, there's no chance for her, none at all. [11]
He realised that within one life a man may still live several lives, each loyal and honest after its kind. [11]
We will uphold William with our fortunes and our lives for, as I have already said, we need a sun, that is, a monarch--but the cities think they have power to shine and wish to be admired as bright stars themselves. [10]
Then, happen what will, for the rest of our lives I will try to atone for the wrong I did you. [11]
None but those whose lives are lived in lonely places can be so acute, so sensitive to sound. [11]
And on the whole this method has some large advantages; for whereas a revolution destroys some lives which cannot well be spared, the dynamite way doesn't. [5]
The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger numbers than other men. [1]
She and all who have a voice in the management of court affairs look first at the roof and then seek anything to raise and support it, though it should be corpses, ruined lives, and broken hearts. [10]
Anyway, I won't while he lives, I make oath to that. [5]
The element by which only the heart lives is sucked out of her crystalline prison. [6]
And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
Why is it when something happens like--like this, that we should suddenly be torn with doubts about him, when we have lived the best part of our lives without so much as thinking of him? [9]
It had prevailed when men were open robbers and filibusters and warriors, giving their lives, if need be, to get what they wanted, making force their god. [11]
He knew that when men live lives of patient, gloomy vigilance, they generally have something to watch and guard. [11]
How he lives, when he once gets within it, I can only guess. [6]
I tell you what, Sir, there are a thousand lives, aye, sometimes a million, go to get a new word into a language that is worth speaking. [6]
Very well, then what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a lean and withered old age? [5]
We couldn't tell what interpretation succeeding ages would put upon our lives and history and literature when they have become remote and shadowy. [4]
I have hurt what I would have spared from hurt at the cost of my life-- and all the lives in all the world! [11]
But if there were two or three lives in the way, manifestly that altered the case. [6]
What their homes were to them, these fellaheen, dragged forth to defend their country, to go into the desert and waste their lives under leaders tyrannous, cruel, and incompetent, his old open life, his innocence, his integrity, his truthfulness and character, were to him. [11]
Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. [5]
Somers and I went out to supper with a classmate who lives in Washington, in that house over there," and he pointed casually to one of the imposing mansions fronting on the park. [9]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
At the time we seem to be injuring no one but ourselves; but, as we live on, we find that we were wronging whomsoever should come into our lives in the future. [11]
A month ago we put our lives upon the risk--our two good knights, my fellow-prisoners, and I--and stole it, and got it smuggled by trusty hands to Orleans, and there it is now, safe for all time in the Treasury. [5]
This I knew--that we had labored together to bring happiness into other lives. [9]
One by one we all had yielded to ceaseless intrigue and common distrust of each other, until no honest man was left; till all were intent to save their lives by holding power; for in this land to lose power is to lose life. [11]
In this latter way did she seem to lay her hand upon the lives of Philip d'Avranche and Guida Landresse. [11]
If the aim was the progress of civilization, it is easy to see that there are other ways of diffusing civilization more expedient than by the destruction of wealth and of human lives. [2]
There it all was just as it had ever been, and seeming to deny that anything had changed in the lives of those who made the place other than a dead or deserted world. [11]
Just as he was better acquainted with every province than the most experienced governor, with every band of soldiers than the sergeant, so nothing escaped him which concerned the private lives of those whom he valued. [10]
But, as it was a fair presumption that most colonial gentlemen made a visit home at least once in their lives, I did not allow the dust to get into my eyes. [9]
But you've been very good to my son; ...and if Gifted lives till you ...till you are in ...your grave, ...he will write a poem--I know he will--that will tell your goodness to babes unborn. [6]
They had marched upon a camp of our excursionists by the Jordan, and the pilgrims only saved their lives by stealing away and flying to Jerusalem under whip and spur in the darkness of the night. [5]
If it's the unhappy who see unhappiness, think what misery must be revealed to people who pass their lives in the really squalid tenement-house streets--I don't mean picturesque avenues like that we passed through. [8]
There was an undercurrent in the lives of both that made him shrink from going deep into any domestic difference. [4]
I am living two lives, and it keeps me pretty busy. [5]
Benefit of Valerian, Tuesday, 29th, if he lives. [5]
On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find. [6]
It is a truism to say that the genuine creations in fiction take their places in general apprehension with historical characters, and sometimes they live more vividly on the printed page and on canvas than the others in their pale, contradictory, and incomplete lives. [4]
Of all the trials which those who take charge of others' health and lives have to undergo, this is the most painful. [6]
Our brother Philip, too, lives with his heart in bonds to that one alone, unless a demon has cheated his senses. [10]
But, as I told you, I shall change their lives and those ages. [5]
Thee has never told any that lives? [11]
We shall be together all our lives, till we are old and grey. [11]
I must go to Van Hout, who lives close by, and will send the German to you. [10]
It is due to these men that Mark Antony still lives and did not come to a miserable end at the hands of his own troops. [10]
Was it reasonable to suppose that society should notice that one woman's heart was full of foreboding, heavy with a sense of loss and defeat, and with the ruin of two lives? [4]
They are obliged to study her books, and order their lives by them. [5]
Not being able to see where they are going, these poor creatures dash themselves to pieces against the rocks or are precipitated over the cliffs and thus many valuable lives are lost annually. [6]
And it came to pass that Coriantumr wrote again an epistle unto Shiz, desiring that he would not come again to battle, but that he would take the kingdom, and spare the lives of the people. [5]
To be condemned to live as the average European family lives would make life a pretty heavy burden to the average American family. [5]
If one wishes to know the magic of names, let him visit the places made memorable by the lives of the illustrious men of the past in the Old World. [6]
No man lives to himself alone, or builds his cottage for his selfish gratification. [4]
When Sabina represented to him what a large outlay these new measures would entail, he replied: "We do not allow the veterans to perish who placed their lives, and limbs at the service of the state. [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]
It is impossible to doubt that colour has been gained by many fishes as a protection: no one can examine the speckled upper surface of a flounder, and overlook its resemblance to the sandy bed of the sea on which it lives. [1]
If he lives to die again, he will distinctly recollect the discovery of America. [5]
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. [7]
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. [7]
He desired her to come home with him at once, and she rose to obey, listening in silence to his assurances that the lives of Karnis and Orpheus would not be worth a sesterce if they fell into the hands of the Roman soldiers. [10]
It's more lives to be wasted. [11]
If Mary lives to be a mother, you will then see a greater difference. [14]
They go out to battle in regular bands, and freely sacrifice their lives for the common weal. [1]
For, though he tires of Rosamond, who is quite attractive, however, he marries her and lives a life of self-denial. [9]
For the first time in your lives you learn some fact or come across some idea. [6]
It only destroyed three thousand and seventy lives last year by collisions, and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty by running over heedless and unnecessary people at crossings. [5]
The man lives three miles up-town. [5]
It was as though something in their meagre lives, which belonged to undeveloped feelings, was fighting for existence--a light struggling to break through murky veils of inexperience. [11]
Those little lives, those pretty little dears, you will not see them die. [11]
He's one of those foreigners that come here from places where they've never had a decent meal's victuals in their lives, and as soon as they get their stomachs full, they begin to make trouble between our people and their hands. [8]
It comes to this--which of you lives the longest. [10]
And, more than this, you have had the services, the blood, and the lives of our political brethren in every trial and on every field. [7]
Let us lift this wondrous fact, once and for all, out of the ecclesiastical setting and incorporate it into our lives. [9]
The response to this must be the touchstone of their lives. [11]
With some species this may be the case, as with one kind which lives on the green leaves of algae, and is itself bright-green. [1]
Ask yourself after this how many lives will be sacrificed when your flight causes hatred and fury to reign supreme in the soul of the cheated monarch! [10]
Most people have this experience at one time or another in their lives. [11]
Maybe something of this element entered into the heroism which had been displayed; but whatever the impulse or the motive, the act and the end were the same--men's lives were in peril, and they were risking their own to rescue them. [11]
It was the thing that never dies, the love that defies injury, shame, crime, deceit, and desertion, and lives pityingly on, knowing all, enduring all, desiring no touch, no communion, yet prevailing--the indestructible thing. [11]
Days upon days, they travelled with incredible labour, now portaging over a stubborn country, now, placing their lives in hazard as they shot down untravelled rapids. [11]
Fair knight, then they said, in saving our lives we will do as thou commandest us. [5]
So far, what they had done was a matter of duty, not of will; but they had done their duty naturally all their lives, and it was natural to them now. [11]
Tropical by organization, they cannot fight for life with our eastern and northwestern breezes without losing the color and fragrance into which their lives would have blossomed in the latitude of myrtles and oranges. [6]
The lives of these people hung in truth upon a slender thing--the bearing of one man. [9]
I don't believe there's any real suffering--not real suffering--among those people; that is, it would be suffering from our point of view, but they've been used to it all their lives, and they don't feel their' discomfort so much. [8]
And here and there some simple soul, more gifted than his comrades, may touch off the meaning of it all, as it appears to those who hold their lives in their hands for a nation's sake, by a stroke of mordant comment. [11]
And what is there left to hand over to him if he lives? [9]

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