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Example sentences for "middle life"

  • He was only ten years out of college, and at that was only twenty-nine years old, but he showed secure taste, confident judgment, and a seasoned ease of humor which belong to middle life.

  • As a naturalized subject of King George, when well on in middle life he had been forced to choose between his sworn allegiance and the interests of his fellow-colonists.

  • I have known several men who never realized their possibilities until they reached middle life.

  • Youth rush into business with no great reserve of education or drill; of course they do poor, feverish work, and break down in middle life, and many die of old age in the forties.

  • Young men rush into business with no great reserve of education or drill; of course, they do poor, feverish work, and break down in middle life, while many die of old age in the forties.

  • The judge of the municipal court in a flourishing western city, one of the most highly esteemed jurists in his state, was in middle life, before his latent power was aroused, an illiterate blacksmith.

  • There is an inflammable emotionality in youth and its dreary continuance into middle life, when as the farcial old governor in the play exclaims, "Every day is ladies' day to me.

  • Thus, in our study of combinations of morbific influences we come to appreciate the evil effect of certain occupations upon the circulation in middle life.

  • How seldom we inquire for a history of specific disease in patients coming to us with cardiac disease in middle life!

  • Of its position as the principal cause of grave disease of the valves as distinguished from the walls of the heart, originating in middle life, there can be no question.

  • He took orders in middle life, was promoted to the Cardinalate, and attained the supreme honor of the Holy See in 1572.

  • Giovanni Mocenigo was a man verging on middle life, superstitious, acknowledging the dominion of his priest, but alive in a furtive way to perilous ideas.

  • Men travel from a tinted morning into the sober light of common day, and with failing faculties and shattered illusions and dissipated hopes, and powers bending under the long monotony of middle life, most of them live.

  • The work, which in point of construction shows signs of haste, and in style is exceptionally unequal, is the least attractive of the efforts of Shakespeare's middle life.

  • In middle life, his temperament, like that of other men, acquired a larger measure of gravity and his thought took a profounder cast than characterised it in youth.

  • Shakespeare, in middle life, brought to practical affairs a singularly sane and sober temperament.

  • Last followed a woman in middle life, appareled in costly robes, suited to travel, haughty, languid, and scornful of mien.

  • The leaden rule of Valens still weighed down the East, and Valens was scarcely yet past middle life, and might reign for many years longer.

  • Marcellus of Ancyra was already in middle life when he came forward as a resolute enemy of Arianism at Nicæa.

  • No merit raised him to the throne; no education or experience prepared him for the august dignity he reached so suddenly in middle life.

  • Milton's own portrait in middle life, which is little known, is most impressive, and very different from the common portraits.

  • This portrait is now in private hands, from whence it is to be hoped that it will some day find its way to the National Portrait Gallery, and be placed beside the striking and noble likeness of the poet in middle life.

  • His portrait, painted in middle life, hangs in the dining-hall.

  • The old love for flowers and trees, as in boyhood, made the man in middle life determine to plant not so much for himself as for posterity.

  • Mr. Rockefeller is still in middle life, with, it is hoped, many years before him in which to carry out his great projects of benevolence.

  • As years went by, and the unobtrusive, energetic man came to middle life, he was sought to fill various positions of honor and trust in Baltimore.

  • As long as you are young your kindnesses are very much valued, and if you choose to be selfish instead, it is forgiven you, but, as you are in youth so you will be in middle life, therefore be careful.

  • I am convinced we all have a certain power of enjoyment, and if you can get your fill of pleasure in youth, you do not find as much keen enjoyment in middle life as if you had been kept on a shorter allowance.

  • It is sad to watch many who have the faded pretty ways which once was all that was required of them, and who, in middle life, cannot understand why their belongings find them so inadequate!

  • Many diseases connected with the urinary and genital organs, due to gonorrhea contracted in youth, may appear in the man of middle life or old age.

  • But to the uninformed father, out in middle life, aroused for the first time to the great need of this teaching and to his personal responsibility to his boys ranging from five to twenty years old, this is not an easy problem.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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