It has been my lifelong habit," declared he over his shoulder, "to arrange everything before disclosing my plans.
Could he afford a complete, a lifelong sacrifice of comfort to gratify a vanity?
Thuswise, before the day, My friend, You sought her on her surfy shore, To fetch her thence away Unto your own new-builded door For a staunch lifelong stay.
You have come out to this wild land to efface your identity, because if you had remained in Europe you would have been charged with a crime, the sequel of which would have been the lifelong unhappiness of the woman you love.
There are some forms of attack to which no answer is possible for a man of any human self-respect but thelifelong silence of contemptuous disgust.
Lyman Abbott sums up his estimate of the worth of his lifelong friend and literary associate, Henry Ward Beecher, in the following words: "It was in the pulpit that Beecher was seen at his best.
He played with science as he played with everything else; and he could talk of the environment by the hour with the best of them, in his airy style, as if environments and he had been lifelong companions.
It was a sin against purity and your own body; it was a legalised lie, a lifelong adultery.
He wouldn’t die for nothing, as things had turned out now; he had avenged himself at least on his lifelong enemy!
To have a lifelong desire for a certain object, which shall appear to be the one thing essential to happiness.
Misery and he were lifelong companions, and pinching want his daily portion.
Dolly was engaged on the object to which she gave lifelong attention, that of keeping her doll asleep.
Old Phoebe sat beside her, trying now and again with quiet voice and manner to soothe and hush away the terrible memories of the audacious deception to which each owed a lifelong loss of the other.
In this year France, through the lifelong craft of Louis XI.
The one desire of lovers is lifelong union in marriage.
A great part of the year was spent in Rome, with his lifelong friend, William Wetmore Story.
Jefferson had seen the real Philip Nolan killed, and nine American companions of his kept in lifelong imprisonment in Mexico because the Spanish government violated its own passports.
I will this once put my lifelong principle under my feet, and if the future house of Muir & Brother is saved, you shall save it.
He was turning his back on a past fraught with peril, over which hung the shadow of what must have been a lifelong disappointment.
Then the impression grew upon her that it would be wisest to tell him all, and let him save his brother, if possible, from a fate infinitely worse than lifelong poverty.
It seemed, however, that if something was not done almost immediately this callous, selfish girl would causelifelong wretchedness to Graydon as certainly as to Madge herself.
How incomprehensible to be dreading a destination which meant Dorothea, and the fulfilment of a lifelong dream!
She had held fiercely to the remembrance of Juliet; to the ideal of lifelong faithfulness; held to it the more fiercely as doubt grew, but now it was no longer doubt, it was certainty.
There was no reason why he should not; there never had been any sort or kind of understanding between herself and him; it was only as lifelong friends that they had written to each other, and that only once a year.
We write of the Irishman in Ireland, fromlifelong acquaintance.
The moon began to fleck the bare floor with patches of light and shadow, bringing into relief the broad chest of the man beside me, the big, motionless head dropped forward, and the flabby yellow face set with a terrible, lifelong gravity.
Superstition, in its myriad forms, was for him a lifelong jest.
He was glad to help his lifelong friend; but over and above that motive Mr. Bays's request for money seemed to mean Rita.
He arrived in England in time to attend the funeral of his lifelong friend, and then he himself was seized with a deadly illness.
The example of Titian was a lifelong inspiration to Rubens; and to all his pupils he held up Titian as the painter par excellence.
Tobias Verhaecht was the man who taught Rubens the elements of drawing, and inculcated in him that love of Nature which was to be his lifelong heritage.
She had no fancy for changing the lifelong conditions.
In that case the division would admit of no redress, and those who thought themselves defrauded would bear lifelong malice.
It is impossible to deny that Boisrobert was a poltroon, but in his lifelong devotion to the Academie he really behaved extremely well.
The vestry of St. George's church adopted resolutions recording "their very high esteem for his character and his lifelong devotion to the church and her interests.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifelong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: continuing; endure; inveterate; lifetime; old; perennial
