In the kitchen the auctioneer lost his temper, and knocked down to Mother Jenkins enough pots and pans to last Pinkey a lifetime for ten shillings before the others could get in a bid.
Mrs Herring, who had spent a lifetime in deceiving men, had prepared this story for her as one teaches a lesson to a child, but she had forgotten it until she found herself mechanically repeating it, her brain sobered by the shock.
But having been all my lifetime used to the liberty of ranging abroad, I was very uneasy at being confined to the caliph's palace, and yet said nothing of it to my wife, from a fear of displeasing her.
Noureddin behaved himself so well in every thing, that one would have thought he had been all his lifetime employed in such affairs.
So nice to know that some wretched old idiot has scraped and hoarded through a lifetime of deprivation and self-denial, in order that one may spend his money when he is under the sod.
Waiting was weary work when the bliss of a lifetime trembled in the balance; and yet he did not want to be impatient.
His labours in the cause of optical science received during his lifetime only scant public recognition, and some of his papers were not printed by the Academie des Sciences till many years after his decease.
The sacred serpent which lived in the Erechtheum at Athens, and was fed with honey-cakes once a month, may have been supposed to house the soul of the dead king Erechtheus, who had reigned in his lifetimeon the same spot.
It is not impossible that Hyacinth may have been a divine king who actually reigned in his lifetime at Amyclae and was afterwards worshipped at his tomb.
Not at once; not by any sudden conquest; not in the lifetime of any individual man; not in any way which does not recognize Nature as co-worker.
Owing to the absence of the historical sense in the Hindu race, it is impossible to fix with chronological exactness the lifetime of either Kalidasa or any other Sanskrit author.
His Lectures on Logic, on Physical Geography, on Paedagogics, were edited during his lifetimeby his friends and pupils.
There have been men who have spent the strength of a lifetime in clearing off the indebtedness of an insolvent father, long since deceased.
By means of the growth of a lifetime I have become an essential part in a great organic system.
He had been with the Ralstons in the Admiral’s lifetime and had known Katharine since she had been a baby.
And yet the marriage may remain a secret a long while--for a lifetime under favourable circumstances.
He considered the stability of his days--a lifetime followed upon high principles and founded on religious convictions that had comforted his sorrows and countenanced his joys.
We cannot instantly throw off a lifetime of interests, affections, and desires.
During the lifetime of Dante, the town began to transform itself and to prepare for becoming the glorious Florence of the Renaissance artists.
We believe that Patanjali is referring to the expedition of Yavanas against Ayodhya during the lifetime of Sagara's father described in Harivamsa.
It is difficult to see at what period of his lifetime he was engaged in making regulations for the castes of Malabar.
Besides the Yavana invasion of Ayodhya described in Harivamsa, there was another subsequent expedition to India by Kala Yavana (Black Yavana) during Krishna's lifetime described in the same work.
In the course of a man's lifetimethere may be a series of complete tranformations of the substance of his brain.
Every pretty girl who grows up in the old town with any pretentious to grammar and respectability and polite behavior has one chance in her lifetime to foot it with the best.
What precious words, again, have been destroyed, that might have lightened for a whole heavy lifetime the doubt and anguish of the living!
And when their lifetime was over, they went back to the Tuatha de Danaan, for they belonged to them through their wives, and there they have stopped ever since.
And Finn turned away from the rest, and he cried tears down; and he never shed a tear through the whole length of his lifetime but only for Osgar and for Bran.
That husbanded it might purchase a lifetime of gray hours tinged intermittently with rose or crimson, Carl had dismissed with a cynical laugh, quoting Omar Khayyam.
Two hundred editions of it in one form or another were published during his lifetime in twelve different languages.
Two Latin translations were made of it during thelifetime of St. Ignatius.
Did they, in that supreme moment, get one of those momentary glimpses, in which the whole iniquities of a lifetime seem marshalled before the soul, and the enormity of its guilt overwhelms it?
Men instinctively pay honour to the hoary head when it represents a career of uniform and consistent integrity; and Christian men honour it all the more when it represents a lifetime of Christian activity and self-denial.
Samuel could not but communicate to Saul the treasured thoughts of his lifetime regarding the way to govern Israel.
It was an order similar to that which the Israelites received to exterminate the inhabitants of Canaan, or that to destroy the Midianites, during the lifetime of Moses.
After enduring the needless torture of these doubts of which I am accusing myself, every added day of love, yes, every single day, will be a whole lifetime of bliss.
He was once called Thomas Becket in his lifetime by one of his murderers as an insult.
The Prince bade the executioners drag away the blazing faggots, and offered Badby support for his lifetime if he would abandon his heresy.
It is a great satisfaction to one who, during a lifetime of managing effort, has tried one offered improvement after another to be convinced that he has found the right road at last.
But expatriation, involving a surrender of all the habits and traditions and associations of a lifetime and of one's kindred, is a serious affair.
Yes, if one of them gives up all the habits and prejudices of a lifetime and of a whole social condition to the other.
