A drunken shop-assistant egged on the crowd against this last suspect, so that his life was really in danger.

'Life is really too grim earnest in these days to stand on ceremony.

Political life was really the only atmosphere in which he felt himself breathe vigorously.

He is apt to end by wondering a little whether life is really worth the trouble it costs, when almost the best thing that can come of it is a condition of comfortable torpor like this.

There are China ports a week's sail to the westward where life is really hard, and where the sight of the restless shipping hurts very much indeed.

Soon, however, two or three men approached, and carried him past before my eyes, and again my anxiety was intense to discover if he were only very badly hurt or if life were really extinct.

I almost wish I was back again at the rice-island; for though this is every way the pleasanter residence, I hear so much more that is intolerable of the treatment of the slaves from those I find here, that my life is really made wretched by it.

Some French writer (I think it is Alphonse Karr) says, 'Nothing in life is really great and good, except what is not true.