After that day it was all up with Bob, for I told my neighbors Joe's story, and we kept him trotting busily, adding little gifts, and taking the sort of interest in him that comforted the lonely fellow, and made him feel that he had not outlived his usefulness.

He had married before 1711 Rachel, daughter of Thomas Baynton, of Little Charfield, Wilts, who outlived her husband eight years.

There are several amongst his poems lamenting, like this, the death of some dear friendperhaps his twin-brother, whom he outlived thirty years.

There were many men who outlived their life, and others who never lived their lives at all; many men who did nothing, and many more who would almost have given their lives to do something.

Some day, when I grow too old to bear arms, I will to pen and ink-horn and will make of him a ballade that shall, mayhap, outlive our time.

He is my star; in him all truth I find, All influence, all fate; and when my mind Is furnished with his fulness, my poor story Shall outlive all their age, and all their glory.

Talleyrand had, however, outlived his reputation, which was at its height when he went to the Congress of Vienna in 1814.

Those are friendships which outlive a second generation.

She was an old lady when I married, and had outlived almost all her contemporaries, but she had a beautiful old age, surrounded by children and grandchildren.

But in May, 1688, a daughter was born, named Frances after her mother; and she outlived both parents.

Thomas died soon after the Restoration; Henry outlived the Revolution.

Here am I then, after thirty-three years' slavery, sitting in my own room at eleven o'clock this finest of all April mornings, a freed man, with £441 a year for the remainder of my life, live I as long as John Dennis, who outlived his annuity and starved at ninety: £441; i.e., £450, with a deduction of £9 for a provision secured to my sister, she being survivor, the pension guaranteed by Act Georgii Tertii, etc.

But he has stood so many, and outlived happier people, that I begin to believe that if the wind is tempered to the shorn lamb, the hides, or the hearts, of some people are toughened to stand the gales of Fate.

But the record fair That memory keeps, of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.

What is wanted for a railway-director is an active, clear-headed man, who has not outlived his term of activity.

Time brought her at least one revenge; she had outlived Nance Oldfield these many years.[A]

His love for his wife had been nothing more than one of those vehement and headstrong fancies, which, in self-indulgent men, sometimes result in marriage, and which seldom outlive the first few months of that life-long connection.

I hope this will not prove emblematic, and that the power of the Jacobins may not outlive the freedom of the people.

Cairo, as Kahira has come to be called, may fairly be said to have outlived all astrological prejudices.

I have lived to a time of life to have outlived the good hours, the nine-o'clock suppers, with a bright hour or two to clear up in afterwards.

] Mr. SPECTATOR, A certain Vice which you have lately attacked, has not yet been considered by you as growing so deep in the Heart of Man, that the Affectation outlives the Practice of it.

Henceforth the principal interest is centered upon the deportment of the insurgents, who have not only outlived the great war between the powers, but are now determined to assert, or win, their independence from the conquerors.

The unfortunate monarch outlived the loss of his crown and liberty about four years.

It seems as if jealousy had outlived my love.

An old man who has outlived all his friends, and is either indifferent or dead to the pleasures of life, is in his proper element in solitude; and in individual cases the special tendency to retirement and seclusion will always be in direct proportion to intellectual capacity.