Five years that were eternities piled upon eternities, and they were only a short step along the path toward the only goal to which a lifer could look forward--death!
Perhaps another year at the outside, and the old lifer would be free, too.
Believe what we tell yew, and give ole John Bull back his promise, an' let him shoot-up this low-lifer rattlesnake.
He sat beside the Higher Lifer on the platform, and behind them were the six deacons.
The Doc then announced that he would preach a series of six Sunday night sermons on the six best-selling books of the month, and pronounced the benediction while the Higher Lifer and Deacon Wiggleford were trying to get the floor.
But the committee of deacons had 'em by the coat-tails, and after listening to their soothing arguments the Higher Lifer decided to take the 2:17 as per schedule.
They voted him two donation parties a year as long as he lived, and elected the Higher Lifer as the permanent pastor of the church.
When this old lifer was a child there was much talk in his family of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
There is a lifer here in Folsom, Matthew Davies, of old pioneer stock, who is trusty of the scaffold and execution chamber.
The first thing that I felt was a sense of relief, a vague yet vast consciousness of deliverance, like a sleepy lifer with a governor's pardon being waved in his face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: captive; con; convict; jailbird; lifer; prisoner; trusty
