It would not be a healthy kind of life were it not that I do my very best to make the evening of his days pleasant for him, and in that way to be of some service in the world.
All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end.
If my only object in life were to be at peace with myself, it would be well enough--but I long to labor and to do something for others.
Their views of life were in accord, and while they spoke of how easily one might yield to temptation, their intimacy seemed to them a proof of strength rather than of weakness.
And yet--if life were to claim me again-- I am but an ant dragging a pine-needle.
Greta, with feet crossed, sat on a coloured blanket, dabbling her fnger in a little pool of coffee, and gazing up at Harz.
At the cruel curtness of those words, Gyp gave the tiniest start forward.
Near the edge of the coppice Tom Gaunt was lopping at some bushes.
The poplar leaves drooped lifeless and almost black above her head, the dust raised by the soldiers' feet hung in the air; it seemed as if in all the world no freshness and no life were stirring.
Is that what Aunt Constance means when she says: 'If life were not a paradox, we could not get on at all'?
But the financial and political dangers which arose from the king's way of life were so great that interference became necessary.
The last ten years of Lovelace's life were passed in obscurity.
Peace brought some relief to France, but the last years of the king's life were gloomy in the extreme.
This committee set me free from tyranny and oppression; otherwise, I should have been in prison until the days of my life were ended.
All the industries, inventions and facilities surrounding our daily life were at one time hidden secrets of nature, but the reality of man penetrated them and made them subject to his purposes.
On leaving College our paths inlife were so remote from each other that we met very infrequently.
It was not by the "sweet records, promises as sweet," that these two observers of life were impressed, but rather by vicious records and hopeless outlooks.
The changes in life were to be explained by what the crystallised posture of life might be at a single instant.
The discovery was an important one, but it was not due to it alone that great changes in habits of life were introduced.
In all our old churchyards the takers of life were interred on the north side, and apparently in Shakespeare's day traditional Pagan rites were observed in the burials of those regarded as Pagans.
As has been shown, there are data which indicate that there was no haphazard distribution of the population of England when the Neolithic industry and the agricultural mode of life were introduced.
And then all the reminiscences of her mother's life were present to her, and she seemed to have established a new and strange link between herself and her.
Like every one who has suffered the trials of poverty, she fancied that nearly all the ills of life were attributable to want of money, and she saw in this wealth which had become hers a magnificent instrument of amelioration.
Indeed, the firmest facts in Mr. Bexley's theory of life were what a Sensationalist would at once put down as delusions or mere hypotheses.
The last years of Mr. Browning's life were introduced by two auspicious events, in themselves of very unequal importance, but each in its own way significant for his happiness and his health.
It was in July, 1859, that the new arrangements for his life were made.
But sighing says that weary wight, 'I wish my life were at an end.
But sighing said that weary wight, 'I wish my life were at an end.
But sighing says that weary wight, ‘I wish my life were at an end.
But sighing said that weary wight, ‘I wish my life were at an end.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "life were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
