His father was a butcher and grazier; and Shakespeare himself is supposed to have been in early life a woolcomber; whilst others aver that he was an usher in a school and afterwards a scrivener's clerk.
Chaucer was inearly life a soldier, and afterwards an effective Commissioner of Customs, and Inspector of Woods and Crown Lands.
Notwithstanding their comparatively adverse circumstances in early life, these distinguished men achieved a solid and enduring reputation by the exercise of their genius, which all the wealth in the world could not have purchased.
I'm sure she must have been a washerwoman, and mangled my uncle in early life.
Hasn't he the Opera; and such friends as Madame la Duchesse d'Ivry, to whom your ladyship introduced him in early life?
There may be children who hold out their hands for presents, and thus become mercenary in early life.
The recollections ofearly life are, in the case of most people, so far as they depend on individual memory, very vaguely and imperfectly localized.
That there is this impulse firmly rooted in the mature mind nobody can doubt; and that it manifests itself in early life in the child's recurring "Why?
The liability to error resulting from mere oblivescence and the arbitrary selection of mental images is seen most plainly, perhaps, in our subsequent representation and estimate of whole periods of early life.
So, too, some accidental accompaniment of an incident in early life is preserved, as though it were the main feature, serving to give quite a false colouring to the whole occurrence.
In early life he had carried his head so high, he had been so much more than a mere Government clerk, that the idea of the coming disgrace almost killed him.
And as she spoke she remembered a certain episode to John Eames's early life, which had reached her from a source which she had not doubted, and which had given her pain and offended her.
Dean Arabin and Mr Crawley had been intimate friends in early life, and Dean Arabin knew more of him than did any man, at least in those parts.
In early life he spent much time in travel, studying architecture, and collecting objects of art.
Warwickshire, was in early life page to a gentleman, and was possibly at Camb.
In early life he was the friend of all the leading men of the day.
Both were disciplined in early lifeby the teachings of that stern nurse of wisdom, adversity.
Pulgar, indeed, notices his fondness for chess, tennis, and other games of skill, in early life.
He frequently alluded to his lowly condition in early life, with great humility, thanking Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its extraordinary goodness to him.
They are said to be intentionally effeminated in early life by much masturbation and by constant horse-riding.
Yourself and Mr. Wordsworth are the only two survivors, of all with whom in early life I joined in familiar intercourse, for poor dear Southey since I last wrote to you concerning him, is worse than dead.
He is a regular frequenter of the village inn, the landlady having been a sweetheart of his in early life, and he having always continued on kind terms with her.
He was a sweetheart of hers in early life, and has always countenanced the tavern on her account.
It spoke of the delights of early life; the hours of love it had enjoyed on the banks of the Darro, and among the blissful abodes of the Alhambra.
True it is, that in my early life I was connected with your fraternity by more immediate ties than at present exist.
In early life he labored as a gardener, but an accidental lameness, which lasted throughout his subsequent life, incapacitated him from active bodily employment.
In early life he received serious injury in the chest from an accident, and he used to say himself that his constitution was bad; that nothing but his own mode of life and his own "cure" would have sustained him.
It is not limited to a few years in early life, it presses on us still in manhood and declining age.
The illustration is taken from "Pictures of Early Life," in the case of a little girl by the name of Lilias Tracy.
Still, it is not only in biology, as I said just now, that a taste of the Tropics in early life exerts a marked widening and philosophic influence upon a man's whole mental horizon.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "early life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
