Lives at the Railroad House and goes out with his organ every night.
Enough for us to live on without risking our livesgoing aloft in a storm, but not much more.
They have expatriated themselves (it amounts to that), and for sixteen years have become acclimated--invested theirlives and fortunes in the islands.
Mansel Weale, which lives on the mimosas in South Africa, and fabricates for itself a case, quite undistinguishable from the surrounding thorns.
They go out to battle in regular bands, and freely sacrifice their lives for the common weal.
Rengger[161] attributes the thin legs and thick arms of the Payaguas Indians to successive generations having passed nearly their whole livesin canoes, with their lower extremities motionless.
The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger number than other men.
With some species this may be the case, as with one which lives on the green leaves of algae, and is itself bright-green.
Even the great luxury of the rich can be but little detrimental; for the expectation of life of our aristocracy, at all ages and of both sexes, is very little inferior to that of healthy English lives in the lower classes.
We were on our way to the great cavern--the cavern where we had first seen Desiree, and where later she had won the toss for our lives and then preserved them.
I had expected instant death; the fact that our lives had been spared could have but one meaning, I thought: to the revenge of death was to be added the vindictiveness of torture.
No time then for the decencies; we had work to do, and we crushed and pounded their livesout against the stone floor.
But there were good reasons why the Colonel and his wife should have fancied the governing passions and objects of ordinary lives had never risen above their son's horizon.
Plant there some box or pine, Something that lives in winter, and will be A verdant offering to my memory, And call it mine.
To be sure he is a snug man, and lives within his means; but then he has a large growing family, and they are obliged to be prudent, and there would be enough to say he ought to have the office.
The Janissaries were brought up wholly to a military life, they were not permitted to marry, and their lives were devoted to fighting for the Crescent.
There is no need of argument while a man yet lives to prove himself.
Fear comes and goes, but a man's love lives in him.
They were foolishness--such foolishness as might deceive the German public, but not us who had lived in India all our lives and who had received our mail from home within a day or two of our surrender.
We opened fire always at too great distance to do much material damage, I thinking it more important to preserve my own men's lives and so to continue able to demoralize the Kurds, and afterward Ranjoor Singh commended me for that.
Yet doubtless knowing that Achilles lives he still rejoices, hoping that one day he shall see thy face again.
She no longer supplicated the clowns, but lifting her hands to heaven exclaimed, 'May they never quit that pool, but pass their lives there!
Jupiter, when he saw none left alive but this pair, and remembered their harmless lives and pious demeanor, ordered the north winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to earth, and earth to the skies.
But the rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away, are sent back to life endowed with new bodies, having had the remembrance of their former lives effectually washed away by the waters of Lethe.
Oh, a very jolly old sort of fellow, who lives close to the mine, with an only daughter.
They shall be kept so, ready for you, and I shall cut all the past out of our lives again as of old; but mind this, Jessop Reed does not have you back again, lord or no lord.
A quiet old officer who lives retired there, Doctor.
But circumstances alter cases, and matters happen strangely and influence our lives in unexpected ways.
Our lives must have their source high up in the mountains of God, fed by a ceaseless supply.
The men and women into whose liveswe have been exchanging it will be eagerly looking for us as the ship pulls into port.
The first of these three livesis this: a secret life, lived with Jesus, hidden from the eyes of men.
These lives are so noisy as to quite shut out what the lips may be saying.
They looked at Jesus; they talked with Jesus; forever to the end of their lives they talked about Him.
And the Master meant to tell them, and to tell us, this: that a man should lead a triple life, three lives in one.
The other goes constantly here and there, and lives are ever transformed through the Spirit of God resting upon her.
The king alone has no power either to judge or to condemn us and would they attempt ourlives by assassination?
He has indeed my safety and happiness at heart, but considers not, that he who lives but to save his life, is already dead.
They were all very quiet and only busy in getting their food, while the old ones were alert against their enemies, and would even risk their lives to defend their young ones.
Mr Ross could see that they met with no sympathy, for, wounded as they were, they had to fight for their lives against some of their comrades that, having tasted the blood of their wounds, were anxious to devour them.
To have been under the guidance of such a couple as Mr and Mr Ross in such a formative period of their young lives was of incalculable value.
They have not toiled in vain, as the true, noble, consistent livesof hundreds of their converts now bear witness.
It is ourlives here only that we must think about, for the sake of those who even now, perhaps, are mourning us as dead.
Why was it that the parent geese, that yesterday would risk their lives in fighting against wild animals to save their young, would to-day, when the call came to go, leave their young broods behind them to perish?
What a contrast is there between the lives of human beings!
Recent researches have shown that confirmed drunkards have after a while modified the molecular structure of their nervous systems to such an extent that they can never for the rest of their lives touch an alcoholic drink with safety.
About one hour's ride on horseback from our village lives a family of Turkish nobles, the head of which was Sadik Pasha, brother of the famous Kiamil Pasha, several times Grand Vizier of the Empire.
I would never sit idle, and see two such lives spoiled--and all our hearts broken.
Now if our high-toned friends had kept this particular part of their lives in manuscript, and not supplied us with copies, but reserved it for spelling out in secret at their own leisure, the case would be different.
The boy thinks that one who lives in the woods must be a great hunter, and clamors for bears and wildcats: Jane, in her usual unfeeling way, insists that I put him up to this.
Each of you will have to bear and forbear, and get used to the other's repulsive selfishness and hidebound eccentricities, to forego the sweet privacy and freedom of self-indulgence which have marked your innocent lives hitherto.
He labours without thanks, talks without credit, lives without love, dies without tears and pity, save that some say it was a pity he died no sooner.
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in theirlives to work on.
Have you not heard the Pongo prophecy, that while the White Devil livesand the Holy Flower blooms, they will live.
Thus our lives were saved by those whom we had tried to save, and for once justice was done even in those dark parts of Africa, for in that time they were dark indeed.
They were designed to enable us to sell our lives as dearly as possible, should things come to the worst.
Although I do not like running, life is more than stores, and he who lives may one day pay his debts.
They have caught it from Dogeetah, one who lives on insects which he entangles in a net, and carries no gun to kill game.
Baas, our lives are twisted up together like the creeper and the tree, and where you go, there I must go also.
The Holy Flower lives there, you bet," gasped Stephen excitedly--he could think of nothing but that confounded orchid.
Although they do not quite know it, these Zulus believe, like all the rest of the world, that man liveson elsewhere.
It all came very suddenly, as great things in the lives of men and nations sometimes do.
As those fellows must be tired and we are all good runners, we may save our lives in that way.
Beneath that robe content and peace should dwell, But neither lives within that face of thine.
There livesmy worthy comrade, Walter Furst, His thoughts and mine upon these times are one.
Which we shall labour to induce not from postulates and entreated Maxims, but undeniable Principles declared in holy Scripture; that is, the length of mens livesbefore the flood, and the large extent of time from Creation thereunto.
Now these notwithstanding, are not conceived to pass all their lives without food; for so to argue is fallacious, and is moreover sufficiently convicted by experience.
And this may also afford a hint to enquire, what are the Climacters of other animated creatures; whereof the lives of some attain not so far as this of ours, and that of others extend a considerable space beyond it.
He lives at Dollis Hill, a beautiful spot near Willesden, about four or five miles from town, where he has taken a farm.
This he carried on by procuring witnesses to swear away thelives of those persons who had incurred his displeasure, or whom it might be necessary to remove.
Because there is no reason why the lives of four Minute Boys be sacrificed.
Doctor Warren was there, and also my father, while most like the old woman's son, Hiram Griffin, helped to do that which proclaimed to the king our readiness to give our lives rather than submit to injustice.
We worked like beavers with that thought in mind, for now it was certain we had been sent to make ready for the coming of those who were to hold that which we had built, and negligence on our part might cost the lives of many.
It may be that the livesof all of us who go ashore will depend on your faithful discharge of duty, therefore act as soldiers should.
What is there to prevent, if so be we are minded to stake our lives for the Cause, even as our fathers are doing?
He has saved lives and guns and is in sight of the V.
Without these more vulgar manifestations Lincoln nevertheless livesas the founder of every cult lives, in the echoes of his voice on many tongues and in the vibrations of his voice in many affections.
He lives and loves with an instinctive freedom and yet he holds himself equally secure from devastating extravagances and devastating repressions.
Energy has run low in the calm veins of such women, and they have better things to do than to dwell upon the lives they might have led had marriage complicated them.
There are inquiries, too, into the repressions and obsessions of women whose lives in this fashion or that have missed their flowering.
Spiritually in exile, he lives somewhat unconcerned with the drama of existence surrounding him, as if his gaze were farther off.
From them, however, he turned to pleas for the single tax and to exposures of legislative corruption and imbecility about which he neither knew nor cared so much as he knew and cared about the actual lives of working farmers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
