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Example sentences for "charmed life"

  • Osceola himself was conspicuous in a red belt and three long feathers, but although twice wounded he seemed to bear a charmed life.

  • About June 8, however, Paul, greatly excited and fearing execution, confessed that the plan was very extensive and said that it was led by an individual who bore a charmed life.

  • It seemed to the Brothers, who had long lived beneath his austere but wise and fatherly rule, that not only did he himself bear a charmed life, but that all who worked with him felt the shelter of that charm.

  • They had come unscathed through so much, and Raymond had so long been said to bear a charmed life, that he and Gaston had alike ceased to tremble before the issue of a battle.

  • He certainly bears a charmed life, for on the evidence of his letter to The Times he has seen things in Tibet which Fu-Manchu would have the West blind to; in fact, I think he has found a new keyhole to the gate of the Indian Empire!

  • Petrie," he said, "if I escape alive from this business I shall know that I bear a charmed life.

  • I said that Sir Lionel must bear a charmed life.

  • The women and children left their beds, and the men seized their guns and commenced firing on the suspicious object; but it seemed to bear a charmed life, and remained unharmed.

  • Not ours the Theban's charmed life; We come not scathless from the strife!

  • The report of the gun echoed over the lake, but there he stood as though he bore a charmed life;--an increased flow of blood from the wound and additional lustre in his eye were the only signs of his being struck.

  • This shot once more floored him, but he must have borne a charmed life, as he again recovered his legs, and to my great satisfaction he turned into the jungle and retreated.

  • Now I must premise that at all times the man who was engaged in "ile" bore a charmed life, and was venerated by both Union men and rebels.

  • He led a charmed life, for he went to visit the wildest tribes, and was everywhere respected.

  • One chief idea now whirled in his brain, which was, that the lad must have a charmed life; he had floated out to the Nab buoy and back again, and now he had had a pistol-bullet passed through his skull without injury.

  • He was convinced that Smallbones had a charmed life.

  • Mr Vanslyperken looked aghast; the lad must have had a charmed life.

  • She too, was thought to bear in some degree a charmed life, and to hold communion with intelligences not of the most holy or reputable order.

  • I should suffer the boy to watch; and I am poor, and I thought he wore a charmed life, and the little hoard would be a comfort and a stay in my old age.

  • To her all nature wore a charmed life: earth and sky were but creatures formed for her use, and the ministers of her pleasure.

  • She hanged a piece o' yarn round his neck, and then said as how he had a charmed life.

  • I am told thou hast, as do all of thy unholy craft, an amulet which, worn on the bosom, will give him who for the time wears it a charmed life, and cause him to prosper in all that he undertakes.

  • Fire and water, perform thy task, A charmed life a mortal asks.

  • Arrows hurtled around him in a cloud, and it seemed as though he must surely be struck down at any second; but Mr. Armstrong appeared to bear a charmed life, for he did not receive even a trivial wound.

  • But a charmed life is thine as long as it is in thy possession.

  • One chief idea now whirled in his brain, which was, that the lad must have a charmed life; he had floated out to the Nab buoy and back again, and now he had had a pistol-bullet passed through his scull without injury.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above ground; acetic ether; also possible; before very; bronze statue; charmed life; combination bulk; condensed milk; field system; found another; her friends; humble life; just exactly; motion picture; move them; mule deer; natura naturans; organized bodies; peasant woman; purely objective; then have; then ready for use