30 Metaphors for living

Yet, so short-lived was that joy that the event has always seemed more like a disquieting dream than a reality; for they came at night and were gone in the morning, and left me sorrowing.

It's all very fine to assume a lofty scorn of the pleasures of the table, but there is great virtue in a really good feed, especially when low-living and high-thinking have been the order of the day.

Whether the Latin Lives proper are free translations of the Irish Lives or the Irish Lives translations of Latin originals remains still, to a large extent, an open question.

Toil, toil, toil Life is labor and love: Live, love and labor is then our song, Till we lay down our toils for the resting throng, With our Architect above.

"Live and let live" is a more modern slogan, which mounts in turn from mere toleration of other people to a spirit of service and universal brotherhood.

So like a painted battle the war stood Silenced, the living quiet as the dead, And in the heart of Arthur joy was lord.

"Nash, had Lycambes on earth living been The time thou wast, his death had been all one; Had he but mov'd thy tartest Muse to spleen Unto the fork he had as surely gone: For why?

The living are the animals that prowl all over the planet, the predatories spreading the gospel of fear.

His living is the only obstacle; But yet, thou knowest that his life is sacred: To love, respect, defend it, thou art bound;

they may be wholesome and approved, much use of them is not good; P. Forestus, in his medicinal observations, relates, that Carthusian friars, whose living is most part fish, are more subject to melancholy than any other order, and that he found by experience, being sometimes their physician ordinary at Delft, in Holland.

" "The one great sacrifice," he said half to himself, "is the going on living one's life for the sake of another, when everything that would seem to make life acceptable has been wrenched away, not the pleasures, but the duties, and the possibilities of expressing one's energies, either in one direction or another: when, in fact, living is only a long tedious dying.

" Living, just living, was with Ann clearly the great thing to be desired.

The living at these hotels is profuse to a degree, but, generally speaking, most disagreeable: first, because the meal is devoured with a rapidity which a pack of fox-hounds, after a week's fast, might in vain attempt to rival; and, secondly, because it is impossible to serve up dinners for hundreds without nine-tenths thereof being cold.

This suburban living is the vital point to be attacked, because in cities the matter is already pretty well settled; there is in sight nothing that will greatly change the rule already given, a cost of $1000 per room of about 1200 cubic feet, with the finish and sanitary appliances demanded.

To such the simplest elements of hygiene are unknown, and cleanly and decent living is the first and hardest lesson to be learned.

" "That may very well be, sir, but it is much more comfortable to live with than is your opinion, and living is my occupation just now.

He is a devotional rather than a theological writer, and his Holy Living and Holy Dying are religious classics.

You'll find that ordinary, everyday living isn't any kid-glove affair.

And thus BOB was ordained, and, having married CATHERINE, he accepted the family living of Wendover, though not before he had taken occasion to point out to BLACK that family livings were corrupt and indefensible institutions.

His "Ductor Dubitantium," dedicated to Charles II, is a work of subtilty and ingenuity; his "Holy Living" and "Holy Dying" (1652), are unique monuments of learning and devotion.

"Living" is spontaneous self-adaptation to surrounding reality, taken in the very widest sense.

The living are the animals that prowl all over the planet, the predatories spreading the gospel of fear.

We try to persuade ourselves that showy living is essential life.

The point is that to them Heaven is a place as actual and tangible as we consider Alaska or Algiers to be, and that their living is a conscious journeying toward this actual place.

He reads the bald account of it, ending thus, "The living is a Vicarage, net yearly value £376, and has been held since 1875 by"and he turns round upon her"by the Rev. Francis Hindemarsh!

30 Metaphors for  living