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Example sentences for "past life"

  • Barton looked daggers, and was in truth somewhat fearful that more of Miriam's past life than he liked was on the verge of discovery.

  • For I had been set my task and had fulfilled it, and the secret of Miriam Crane's past life was in my keeping and in my master's.

  • I was prepared to make amends for my past life, and at least to be a good wife to him.

  • Make acts of reparation for all the selfconceit of past life.

  • From the time when one lies within the mother's womb one begins to enjoy and endure one's acts of a past life.

  • Like fishes going against a current of water, the acts of a past life come to the actor.

  • Why do you oblige me to recall the bitterness of my past life, and to renew images, the remembrance of which, even at this distant period, harrows up my soul with inconceivable misery?

  • My face burns as I now speak of my past life to you, and as I think what my old companions know and must often say about me.

  • Without even any clear remembrance of my past life, I was completely occupied by cares for the present moment.

  • Then you know nothing of Mademoiselle Marguerite's past life.

  • Do you want the particulars of the viscount's past life?

  • I did not know what he had learned of my past life, but I had noticed his anxiety, and, when he saw me settle down in the old home, he gave me a glance that went to my heart.

  • I thought of my past life, of my disappointment and my ennui; I walked to and fro, breathing the fragrance of the flowers, and looking at the sun.

  • The restlessness and terror, the wilful, overbearing, and weak nature of Frau Ceres were now for the first time made clear to her; here was a woman who sought to torment her husband by revealing to her child the father's past life.

  • A compromising circumstance had unquestionably occurred in Stella's past life; and, in all probability, a man was in some way connected with it.

  • Your object (I am told) is to make yourself acquainted with events in my past life, and you have some motive which my correspondent has thus far failed to discover.

  • I said, quietly: "Some such incident as you describe has occurred in Mr. Winterfield's past life.

  • And I've no memories either, for in all my past life I can find nothing but my own personality.

  • The more deeply I probe into myself, the more intently I review all my past life, the more I am convinced of the strict truth of this expression.

  • But for the days that I passed in her company, I might never have tried to atone for my past life by works of mercy.

  • All that I have done, as a nurse, and all that I may yet hope to do, is no more than an effort to make amends for my past life.

  • The doctor's wife was well acquainted with Lord Harry's past life, when he happened to be in Ireland; and she had met many of his countrymen with whom he had associated.

  • I often suffer over my past life, though the present is so widely different.

  • You have crushed me by referring again to my past life, and even while I am assuring you of my love and repentance, and while I still hope for a reconciliation, I tremble to feel that you can suspect me so unjustly.

  • It hurts me to feel that my past life must be an obstacle to your confidence.

  • With me, it is not my hand that is the crucible, but my past life, which is like an abyss that all the money in the world would find it difficult to fill.

  • When I dwelt upon the incidents of my past life, and traced the chain of events, from the death of my mother to the present moment, I almost acquiesced in the notion that some beneficent and ruling genius had prepared my path for me.

  • The employment was productive of pain more than of pleasure, and the curiosity that would uselessly seek a knowledge of my past life was no less impertinent than the loquacity that would uselessly communicate that knowledge.

  • I incessantly ruminated on the events of my past life.

  • I thought of my past life, of my disappointment and my ennui; I walked to and fro, breathing the fragrance of the flowers and looking at the sun.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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