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• He gets up early in the morning, works all day long — even on weekends — and hardly sees his family. That's no life!
• Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.
• Writers of particular lives[...]are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.
• His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.
• It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
• Get a life.
• She's my love, my life.
• And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.
• "Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!"
• That gives thy gestures grace and life.
• No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.
• His life was ruined by drugs.
• Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life.
• Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.
• The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
• "[...]I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life. Life seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of life which crosses your path; but as a rule you are of no moment whatsoever to anything but yourself. You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble—we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.
• The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.
• This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.
• 1916, Ezra Meeker, The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker
• “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
• One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
• Many lives were lost during the war.
• But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
• He gave up on life.