Think of the obscene word becoming a living entity, the profane oath a thing of life; the filthy or impure thought, assuming form and vitality, all starting forward to exist forever among the creations of infinite purity.

"You speak as if I were bustpardon me, breaking busts for a living.

It was a living group that I saw.

The widows and orphans of coal miners almost always fall back upon factory labour for a living; and, in the present state of things, this class of people forms a very helpless element of the general distress.

It was absolutely impossible that they should arise while Robin Hood was a living reality to the people.

Those whom I have to teach want a living God, who cares for men, works for men, teaches men, punishes men, forgives men, saves men from their sins; and Him I have found in the Bible, and nowhere else, save in the facts of life which the Bible alone interprets.

The drunken loafer who has not earned a living for years is consulted by the Constitution on questions like the training and upbringing of children, the national settlement of religion in Wales and elsewhere, and as to the best method of dealing with the licensing problem.

The major had kept a strict watch on the shanties at the report of the rifle; but not a living thing was seen moving in their vicinity.

With the exception of about five, all have to fight briskly for a living.

Now if you are accustomed to writing articles for a living, you will know that sometimes the difficulty is not writing the article, but choosing a subject.

A living, breathing poet was wanting to reanimate by his touch the poesy that had slept so long.

Another girl came another day, and he bade her take notice of all that was in the house, and he said 'Do you think could a couple knock a living out of this?'

We work a lot and make big crops and don't hardly get a living out of it.

A brilliant spring sun robed the earth in brightness; but nowhere did it light up a scene of greater magnificence than when, filtered through the windows of stained glass, it poured itself in a living mosaic over the marble pavement of the cathedral, and flashed upon the sumptuous hangings and golden draperies which were distributed over the spacious area of the edifice.

In the beginning we read, "And the Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

We are to present our bodies a living sacrifice before God.

It is to grasp that atmosphere of life and reality which comes out of the moral law to those who seek it in a living person firstthe desire of goodness, the desire, the love, the enthusiasm, the ambition, cost what it may, of doing right because it is right.

Equally she felt that either Emily or she had got to turn out and make a living, and since it couldn't possibly be Emily it must be she.

He sawed wood for a living, and soon established such a character for industry and honesty, that many of the citizens were in the habit of employing him to purchase their wood and prepare it for the winter.

Then we will talk about the birds that only croak and call; then the cannibal birds; next those that coo, and those that scratch for a living.

The daughters earned a living by selling flowers and one day one daughter, as she sold the Raja a garland, told him that his real bride was living in their house.

I have learned to do without the town, without the great machine that provides man with a living.

" The answer was: "A woman who cannot make a living at one good trade already learned, will not mend matters by learning another.

If you do, they're apt to go into the asking business for a living.

But you take the average boy who's been loaded up with this sort of stuff, and dig into him, and his mind is simply a cemetery of useless dates from the tombstones of those tough and sporty old kings, with here and there the jaw-bone of an ass who made a living by killing every one in sight and unsettling business for honest men.