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Example sentences for "later life"

  • This was a secret my uncle never could solve, and which only in later life I myself was able to discover.

  • In later life he used to tell with infinite zest a story of a blunder of earlier years which might easily have led to serious if not fatal results.

  • Perhaps Rossetti never did anything more beautiful and spiritual than this little work of his twentieth year; and more than once in later life he painted the beautiful lady who is the subject of it, with the lilies lying along her arm.

  • A part of the miracle of conversion in later life appears in God's power to trace new pathways when the brain is hardened, and to keep life in them, moment by moment, against the tug of the old.

  • In later life a fact is retained almost wholly through association with other facts, for the cells grow hard and an imprint therefore is faint.

  • In later life, energy is definitely put forth for some desired end.

  • In what follows we will consider first the subject of nursery management, searching in it for the origin of the common disorders of conduct both of childhood and of later life.

  • Then tears flow more readily than in later life, and tears are not the only secretions which lie under the influence of strong emotion.

  • Such differences are natural enough and foreshadow perhaps the permanent characteristics that divide men and women, and produce in later life men of thought and men of action, women who are Marthas and women who are Marys.

  • The story of Red Riding Hood told by the nursery fire excites in the mind of the child an unquestioning belief which is never granted in later life to the most elaborate efforts of the theatre.

  • It has been argued that public worship is distasteful in later life because of the compulsory chapels of boyhood.

  • All the languages are to be taught as we learn them in later life, when the desire or necessity arises, by means of easy passages with the translation at our side.

  • In vigor, complexion, and temperament he was regarded in later life as young for his years, but never in looks.

  • Moffett, in later life a well-known journalist and editor.

  • In later life he claimed that he had not been hypnotized in any degree, but had been pretending throughout--a statement always denied by his mother and his brother Orion.

  • In later life Mr. Clemens did not recollect the precise period of this illness.

  • As mentioned in the Prefatory Note, Mark Twain's memory played him many tricks in later life.

  • The consequences were the graver that I was naturally too much disposed to a vagrant life; and the want of a dominant interest in my occupation led to indulgence, on every occasion that offered in later life, of the tendency to wander.

  • To him and his friendship in after years I owe to a very large degree the shaping of my later life, as well as the better part of the success of "The Crayon.

  • According to Dilke, he in later life owned as much.

  • One touching incident he recorded in later life as having happened in the spring of 1832, the eleventh year after Keats's death.

  • In later life he learned to exercise his judgment in regard to stories of adventure not less than those of the "domestic" sort, and perhaps the liking for quiet tales grew upon him; at any rate his taste seems remarkably catholic.

  • In later life he congratulated himself on having from the first foreseen Irving's success.

  • They are of the nature of play, in so far as play is a preparation for the activities of later life, though, unlike the games, they are not felt as play.

  • But it is also true in a scarcely less absolute manner of a large proportion of persons infected in later life.

  • The fact that in early life the clitoris is relatively larger and more penis-like helps to confirm this view which Freud connects with the tendency in later life to erotic dream of women furnished with a penis.

  • It is the more necessary, Ellen Key remarks, for children to be introduced to great literature, since they often have little opportunity to occupy themselves with it in later life.

  • Thus, in later life, their perception of what he endured had to be disentangled from the impression produced in childhood by constant genial kindness under conditions of unrecognised difficulty.

  • Prominent among the friends that were to be, was also Archer Gurney, well known in later life as the Rev.

  • He had also a look of dainty cleanliness which was heightened by the smooth healthy texture of the skin, and in later life by the silvery whiteness of his hair.

  • He produced less rapidly in later life, though he could throw off impromptu verses, whether serious or comical, with the utmost ease.

  • Probably the 'Records of Later Life,' published in 1882.

  • Published in 1882 as 'Records of Later Life.

  • Hannah More only took to coiffes and wimples in later life; in early days she was fond of splendour, and, as we read, had herself painted in emerald earrings.

  • In later life I occasionally visited such a shop, between Fleet Street and the river, when I had rooms in that locality.

  • By nature he seemed peculiarly fitted to make his mark in society; by inclination and habit, more especially in later life, it would seem he shunned society as the plague itself.

  • X I used to tell Heron, and others who came into my later life, that the happiest days I ever knew were the 'ten bob a week and all found' days of my handy-lad time.

  • Now here, despite my elation, I spoke with a shrewdness often recalled, but rarely repeated by me in later life.

  • But, looking back from the cool greyness of later life, one sees a wistful pathos, and, too, a certain stirring fineness in the situation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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