He had lived so long with the Great Thought that all darkness and fear had left him forever.
The rattle and roaring of the road did not usually keep him awake, because he had lived in the poorer quarter of too many big capital cities not to be accustomed to noise.
At the mouth of the pass I turned and looked back upon the ruins of the City of Pines, where I had lived so many years and where all I loved were buried.
His father, and his father's father before him, and as many ancestors back as legend could go, had lived in that part of Lithuania known as Brelovicz, the Imperial Forest.
He had lived a happy life; Burnamy would be lucky if he should live one half as happy; and yet if he could show him his whole happy life, just as it had truly been, must not the young man shrink from such a picture of his future?
My hand took a sudden fit of trembling as I lifted it to knock at my mistress's door.
At any rate, Miss Rachel was reported to have said some severe things to Mr. Franklin, at the piano that evening, about the people he had lived among, and the principles he had adopted in foreign parts.
His whole aim and object seemed to be to look as if he had lived in the country all his life.
And then he said--not bitterly--that he would die as he had lived, forgotten and unknown.
Up to that moment, my own opinion had been (as you know) that the Colonel had died as wickedly as he had lived.
During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture.
And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.
For Hamlet was a loving and a gentle prince, and greatly beloved for his many noble and princelike qualities; and if he had lived, would no doubt have proved a most royal and complete king to Denmark.
A Greek was much surprised to see a photograph of the Acropolis at Hull-House because he had lived in Chicago for thirteen years and had never before met any Americans who knew about this foremost glory of the world.
His good qualities had endeared him to all his acquaintances, and if he had lived longer he would undoubtedly have risen to high command in the army.
I left my fine house where I had lived so pleasantly, and took a little room at a guinea a week.
If he had lived, he would have gone down to posterity in the wake of Voltaire, but he paid the debt of nature at the age of thirty.
I had lived a dreadful life, perfectly destitute of the knowledge and fear of God.
I had lived in, but was come out of it; and well might I say, as Father Abraham to Dives, "Between me and thee is a great gulf fixed.
If he had lived a little longer," said the mountain preacher high up on Yellow Creek, "I'd have got that trade I had on hand with him through.
If hehad lived a little longer," said a constituent, "he would have lost the next election.
And yet he knew that in those weeks he had lived more of his life than he had ever lived before, or would ever live again.
Over the black spruce at his feet, far into the gray, misty distances beyond, over forests and mountains and the vast, grim silences his vision reached out until he saw life as it had begun for him, and as he had lived it for a time.
He had become a priest and for a time hehad lived in a monastery.
He had gone to school almost fifty years before and he had rarely read a book, but he had lived on the top of his tower for so many years that he had absorbed the wisdom of that wide world which surrounded him on all sides.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had lived" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
