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Example sentences for "take life"

  • Must you not face the fact that, in this imperfect world, it is necessary to take life?

  • But we have not quite exhausted the appeal to Nature; we have still to speak of the common objection to vegetarianism that "it is necessary to take life.

  • From to-day forbear to take life, buy many birds and animals in order to set them free,[387] and every morning when you wash your teeth mutter a prayer to Buddha.

  • The belief that it is wrong to take life is a belief with them as strong as any belief could be.

  • They know that Buddhists believe in transmigration, they know that Buddhists do not like to take life, and therefore one is the cause of the other.

  • His refusal to take life he shares with the Hindu; his perpetual care and tenderness to all living creatures is all his own.

  • I have heard amongst Europeans a very curious explanation of this refusal of Buddhists to take life.

  • From to-day forbear to take life, buy many birds and animals in order to set them free,[742] and every morning when you wash your teeth mutter a prayer to Buddha.

  • She is all alive and on fire, or else languid and disdainful: she can't take life easily, as people of coarser grain do, like me.

  • Take Life in the large view, and it is not a grand or beautiful thing.

  • But in the main it is best to take Life lightly.

  • We seem afraid to take life at its splendid best; choosing rather to live in a litter of petty ideas and feelings, and save the big ones for Sundays--or annual holidays.

  • It was a matter of principle with Julius never to take life; yet instinctively he drew back his hand from the book in disgust.

  • I could shoot and fish as well as most of you, only that I don't think it right to take life except to provide food, or in self-defense.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also took; nor could; placed himself; second session; take account; take along; take back; take delight; take fire; take hede; take him; take his; take long; take measures for the; take note; take offense; take over; take some; take thee; take their; take this; take wing; taken away from the; taken for; takes post; who gave