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Example sentences for "city life"

  • Gone were all the hectic years of city life, the stab of Ethel Sherman, the distrust of Jack Nickerson, and the humiliation of the years with Weston & Hill.

  • The curiosity of all persons concerning the darker side of city life can be fully satisfied by a perusal of the sketches presented in this volume.

  • Ask any one whose duties have called him into constant contact with the shadowy side of city life, and he will tell you that there is no escape from the doom of the fallen women.

  • It is simply a disgusting and appalling feature of city life, and as such it is presented here.

  • As a result of choosing a city life, Lot lost nearly all his family.

  • And, tearing myself from her, I returned to city life.

  • It must, perforce, if I cannot gain better terms," I answered; and I returned once more to my city life.

  • How swiftly such matters sometimes proceed, when removed from the stiffness and ceremony of city life!

  • There were many fur-traders, too, who brought their goods to market as Daniel did, and one was constantly meeting some rough-clad trapper in from the wilds for a few days of city life.

  • He tired of life in the primitive Waxhaw country, and when the British evacuated Charleston he went there, and saw something of city life.

  • Walter made many friends of his own age, and lived as most of them did, mixing in all the excitements of city life.

  • If it were true that only the worthless portion of our country population passed into our cities to perish in the struggle for existence, which is so fatal in city life, we should on the whole have reason to congratulate ourselves.

  • Most of the social wreckage of city life is deposited in this stratum, which presents the problem of poverty in its most perplexed and darkest form.

  • This fact alone throws some light upon the nature of city life.

  • As with health, so with other phases of the Negro's city life.

  • Apart from the general destruction of the margin of energy, one special thing that the new form of city life does to injure poetry is to keep uppermost in men's consciousness a feverish sense of the importance of the present moment.

  • But I would remind you--and I think the suggestion is especially needed amidst the whirl of city life--that there is such a thing as Home Education, and it presses its claims upon everybody who inhabits a Home.

  • For out of hidden channels, here and there, do spring all these struggling activities, these human diversities, these various influences good and evil, that make up the crowd and spectacle of city life.

  • It is really a battle of chairs and mirrors, of plate and equipage, and is the spring of the monstrous extravagance that characterizes our city life.

  • So of the unwholesome excitement of a city life.

  • Boarding-school life, city life, mental troubles--these are the three fertile sources of disturbances in the sexual functions of girlhood.

  • Hence the importance of taking them into the country; and keeping them there until the return of cool weather lessens the danger of city life.

  • These associations had many functions and held a most important place in city life.

  • Proposed Remedies for the Evils of City Life.

  • The country girl is more open to the enticements of city life, being more truthful, perfectly innocent and unsuspecting of those whose business it is to seek their prey from girls of this class.

  • They are probably more often handicapped by the competition of city life than by the conditions of life in the rural community.

  • By necessity the recruits from the country are forced into the conditions of city life, into an environment that is more gregarious than any normal urban center experiences.

  • Smaller communities and towns throughout the land are free from at least this semi-legal organization of it, and why should it be accepted as a permanent aspect of city life?

  • They were farmers' daughters, strong and capable of taking care of themselves in an environment that they understood, but in constant danger because of their ignorance of city life.

  • Their unspoiled human nature, not yet immune to the poisons of city life, when thrust into the midst of that unrelieved drudgery which lies at the foundation of all complex luxury, often results in the most fatal reactions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both alike; city called; city clerk; city editor; city government; city life; city marshal; coloured silks; government revenue; great resemblance; hardly knew; higher plane; indeed true; keep them; looking very; mean what; methyl violet; modern agriculture; rather broad; send the; small chance; take upon; thrives best; twelve ounces; under penalty; will soon