One episode in the tiny Elizabeth's life was unusual, and long years afterward Martie found a place for it in her own slowly-forming theories.
Ten years ago she might have said that at twenty-eight the best of a woman's life was over.
Martie went away smiling; over all its waste and suffering life was amusing, after all.
No woman's life was affected, surely, by a trifle like the tourist fare to California, she told herself sensibly.
It was as though each who had suffered from the man in life was destined to be menaced by his shade, till it should be exorcised by that person who had taken the useless life, saying, "It was I; I did it!
Some had been cruelly injured, and desire of life was dead in them; others had given injury, and remorse had slain peace.
Life was grim in so much of it, futile in more, feeble at the best, foolish in the light of a single generation or a single century or a thousand years.
The whiteness of her skin gave a delicate beauty to the faint rose of her cheeks--that rose-pink which never was to fade entirely from her face while life was left to her.
Her husband's life was in infinite danger,--had not Brengyn said that his chances were only one in a thousand?
The rough and tumble of a bush-ranger's life was over at last, and this was the finish up.
Life was made up of short bits; sometimes it was hard luck; sometimes everything went jolly and well.
Life was sweet, and that day he fought for his life.
Her mother was, she thought, pleased and interested for about her worn face there was the look of contentment which invariably came when for a time the bitterness of the struggle of life was broken by any sign of friendliness.
So I suppose it had to be; life was coming to me in new forms and with new requirements.
All his available assets were the two thousand pounds for which his life was insured, and which were left equally between his beloved "sister Amelia, wife of, &c.
When they stood, these stood: and when they were lifted up, these were lifted up: for the spirit of life was in them.
Withersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
When those went these went, and when those stood these stood, and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together, and followed them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.
His insignificance was turned to power, and he felt himself suddenly equal with the cruel fate which had seemed to persecute him; for, if life was meaningless, the world was robbed of its cruelty.
Philip was puzzled, and he asked himself what rule of life was there, if that one was useless, and why people acted in one way rather than in another.
I'd been so miserably unhappy, and mylife was so hateful," she said at last.
No pomp was there, no glory shone around On the coarse straw that strewed the reeking ground; One dim retreat a flickering torch betrayed, In that poor cell the Lord ofLife was laid!
The old black woman's life was buried in her darling's grave.
Life was to be lived--not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood!
The kernel of life was in this saving for his children.
A man's life was what he possessed and sought to possess.
Old Jolyon watched the new intimacy with relief and disapproval; for this additional proof that her life was to be passed amongst 'lame ducks' worried him.
Life was playing an evil game with him, and, though he won, it must be at a bitter price.
More than once he glanced at the Mahdi also as if he wished to say something, and yet could not do so, because the power of life was low; but at last his voice found strength.
At last, when the power of life was low in it, the goat opened its heavy eyes upon her and put forth its tongue and licked her hand.
Was it his duty to wipe out these beautiful dream-stories of the maid born blind and newly come upon the joy of hearing with his own sadder tales of what the world was and what life was, and death and heaven?
I have found out at last that his way of life was, in the main, the right way.
The secret of life was there at my side from the time I was able to pronounce your name, and I couldn't see it.
Life was a strange thing that they should be doing this while she should be going to live in luxury at a great country place.
I had to explain that the ambition of my life was to go up behind the lime-kiln on the top of the hill that hung over Barton, a spot which was forbidden ground, being locally held one of extreme danger.
It will be justly said that my life was made up of very trifling things, since I have to confess that this incident of the Browns' invitation was one of its landmarks.
But on some day, at some hour and minute, if life was spared to them, the way of salvation would be revealed to these persons in such an aspect that they would be enabled instantaneously to accept it.
The loneliness of my life was extreme, and that I always went home on Saturday afternoon and returned on Monday morning still further checked my companionships at school.
With the Japanese woman, as formed by the ancient training, each act of life was an act of faith: her existence was a religion, her home a temple, her every word and thought ordered by the law of the cult of the dead.
Mind, instead of matter, being the producer, Life was self-sustained.
When I began to read the book, life was a burden, but before I had finished reading it the first time, I was doing all my housework and doing it easily; and since that glorious day I have been a well woman.
These left all sorts of evils behind them, - debility, chronic constipation, and several others, so that with these ills my life wasoften a burden to me and I used to think I never should receive relief or health.
Cain very naturally concluded that if life was in the body, and man gave it, man had the right to take it away.
The characters would not talk of their own accord; the incidents did not flow in a stream as when he worked successfully; life was not in them.
Everything became clear and simple--one thing, Life was a game of Hide-and-Seek.
Everything in life was passing, yet nothing went--there was no hurry.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "life was" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
