Forty young men may be commissioned on the same day to the same grade, but through all their after life, even when they return to civil life, the distinctions of the merit-roll will follow them, and be counted for or against them.
Some of the "swells" in a cavalry regiment are more primitive in their style and manner of performing their toilets than their brother "swells" in civil life.
Thus the Government prove beyond a doubt, that habitual drunkenness cannot be tolerated in the army with the same degree that we all know it to exist in civil life.
A youth who has given himself up to habits of idleness, and, perhaps, drunkenness in civil life, must reform when he becomes a British soldier.
There are, in civil life, men whose appearance is precisely that of a soldier.
Though war, in whatever light we may view it, cannot but be considered a national calamity, it must be admitted that it has a tendency to generate certain mental and social qualities which are unknown or of slow growth in civil life.
The very day he returned to civil life, he took the cars to spend some days at Paris, where several members of his family awaited him.
Mine was much more modest:-- "An officer at present in France desires a good job in civil life.
His frame, short and slight, seemed scarcely to fit him for warlike pursuits; and in ages when great stature and sturdy sinews were alone held in repute, he might have been relegated to civil life; but the careers of William III.
These last were men who had served their time and had not, as a rule, lost their soldierly qualities in civil life.
In the interests of the papacy they thus laid the foundations of a theory of the sovereignty of the people in matters of civil life: Only the papal power is, according to Matthew xvi.
May all prosperity attend you; may you be able to show yourselves in civil life, as in the war, the steadfast, unfaltering, devoted friends of this flag you are willing to die for.
Our Government does not undertake to regulate many of the affairs of civil life.
Religion has been for the past few centuries the great cleavage line along which the spirit of intolerance is supposed to play in the distribution of privileges and power in civil life in Ireland.
He who, whilst he professes some principle of belief or conduct in religious or civil life, is ready to agree with his neighbour in the opposite shows little regard for truth and little sense of duty.
I can only remember thinking with envy of men surrounding us in civil life, who came home to their wives, after every day's business.
I was the only person in civil life from a northern State, or who had served in the Union Army in the Civil War but never in the regular Army, on whom was originally conferred that high rank in the Spanish-American War.
Gerry Fairbanks (a hatter in civil life); and detachments continued doing garrison duty several weeks longer.
Chief Allen David had given orders that this "social hop," commemorating the first marriage in civil life, should be conducted in civil form.
Strange and encouraging spectacle, to witness Indian men, who were born savages, conforming to usages of civil life.
Think of such a lot for a man used to action in civil life--and they call war action!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
