That man, that fiend, affected to be my friend; and under the guise of friendship, stole into the heart I loved better than my own life.
Had my tomahawk obeyed the first impulse of my heart, I should have cursed myself and died: as it is, I have reason to avoid all useless exposure of my own life, at present.
My father has just been with me, and I have pleaded the cause of your husband with an earnestness I should scarcely have used had my own life been at stake.
My sister Clara I adore with all the affection of my nature; I love her better than my own life, which is wrapped up in hers.
I merely mention this to prove to you that I am not unmindful, in spite of the circumstances of my own life, of the unfortunates whose mental equipment is not equal to my own.
I shall have to carve out my own life, and I feel that I am as well able to do it as he was.
It had grown with my own life, and now with its death to-day I felt that I had lost all that was dear to me.
He agreed, if I consented to marry him, that I should have my freedom --freedom to live in my own life and to carry on my profession.
I wish to lead my own life, it is true--to develop.
In bringing us into that love which is God's own life, God evidently has no intention of allowing us to cut ourselves off from our brethren, to climb up to heaven by some little individual ladder of our own.
The desire for life, therefore, for God's own life, for communion with God, itself impels to character.
Only the riches of a personal life can satisfy our claim on life, our desire for life; and, ultimately, we can be fully satisfied only with God's own life in the fullest revelation he can make of it to us men.
Hume, in his "own life," says they were published in the interval between the first and second volumes of his History.
And I give you warning, Wolf Larsen, that I may forget love of my own life in the desire to kill you if you go too far in maltreating those poor wretches.
I forget my own life in the love of another life; and yet, such is the paradox, I never wanted so much to live as right now when I place the least value upon my own life.
And I will tell you one reason why this was, and you will think it strange that it should have played such a part in the history of the village, as in my own life.
They had broken their bond, though we had fulfilled ours, and I held myself justified in doing what I had done for our cause and for my own life.
I had made a solemn promise to Sir John Godric that those letters, if they ever left my hands, should go to the lady who had written them; and to save my own life I would not have broken faith with my benefactor.
On this day it was that that great and bold mariner the Admiral Don Pedro de Valdes by his great daring and the hazard of his life saved my own life, when I had been swept overboard by a mighty sea.
There, in the very spot where I had seen Lauchlane Macleod go down into the deep, my own life took a new being.
I would not scruple regarding my own life; why should I, regarding that of another?
But I have had something of the same sort in my own life.
They are things affecting my own life--my own future.
I must know more of the truth about my own life, and I must know more of what it would become if it were made a part of yours.
If I had wished to end my own life before, surely now, death, at the hands of another, was no very terrible thing.
Had I not seriously thought of taking my own life?
I should not lay hands upon my own life, mother, but the sense of my degradation would kill me.
He sent me aid when with a wanton hand I attempted my own life; you, dear sir, rescued not only my body, but my immortal soul, saving it from mortal sin.
My own lifeas it unrolls day by day is a source of constant amazement, delight, and pain.
I can think of no more interesting volume than a detailed, intimate, psychological history of my own life.
The time has not arrived for describing this change, which I shall have to do in its proper place, since it was closely connected with important occurrences in my own life.
For heroic natures there is something grand in the idea of giving up one's whole future for others, of buying their salvation with the happiness of one's own life, of sacrificing one's self in their stead to an inexorable destiny.
Now that we are all in arms, one against the other, my own life is hardly safe in the midst of this strife and turmoil, and if once they get to know who you are, my being at your side would be of very little use.
We met but seldom later in life, and my own life in England was so busy and full that even our correspondence was not regular.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "own life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
