What's more, you've given me the chance of a lifetime to become known as a public benefactor.

His essential nature is comparatively fixed at birth and is beyond the power or caprice of parent or environment to change in any fundamental particular during the short period of a lifetime.

" Acquirements of parents during their lifetime, according to the best authorities, are not transmitted to any noticeable extent to their children.

In fact, during the lifetime of the individual, the germ cells are so completely isolated from the growing organism that nothing but nourishment in the shape of blood can possibly reach them, hence they can be affected only by a vitiated or poisonous blood supply.

They raised their muzzles in the air and bellowed: "We do more good in an hour than such as you do in a whole lifetime.

" "Wh-wh-why," stammered Bobbie with a blush worth a man's waiting a lifetime to see, "itit only just happened.

I have kept it all these years, although in the lifetime of Mr Keswick it was never cleaned, and I wore it to-day, Robert, that your eyes might rest upon it once again, and that you might speak to me the words you spoke to me the day after I let you pin it on my white neckerchief.

During the lifetime of Lord and Lady Amberley their children often spent many months at Pembroke Lodge while their parents were abroad, and when both father and mother had died the two boys came to live with their grandparents.

"It does n't require a lifetime for a man to prove that he is a man.

Miss Bruce would not be bored with Lord Bearwarden's companionship, not for an hour, not for a weekno, not for a lifetime!

Why, there's sermons for a lifetime in it.

It was denied during his lifetime, for a little while, by those who envied his greatness, resented his leadership, and sought to shake him from his lofty place.

" "Rather an assumption, isn't it, that a man would have" "Why not at all, if he has done enough during his brief lifetime to warrant the assumption.

conduit with a pool of wine let into the inner court, this being fed from eight tall and narrow golden tanks, tapering upwards, which surround it, each containing a different red wine, sufficient on the whole to last for all purposes during my lifetime.

It is not a man's lifetime old.

The journey to the wood was speedily accomplished, but the poor lads who were keeping watch, often said afterwards that it seemed to them almost a lifetime, such was the crowd of fearful and wretched thoughts and forebodings, such the anxiety, and hopelessness of their situation.

A lifetime is too short to allow of rest.

His will made no mention whatever of me, but left all his property to his wife during her lifetime, and to three Seventh-day Baptist churches after her death.

Though a true lover of books, he knew nothing of any that had been published during his own lifetime.

That moral debt must still go on, and be acknowledged by the unfailing gratitude of a lifetime.' 'Of a lifetime,' repeated Mrs. Rymer, sweetly murmuring, and casting towards her friend an eloquent glance.

That moral debt must still go on, and be acknowledged by the unfailing gratitude of a lifetime.' 'Of a lifetime,' repeated Mrs. Rymer, sweetly murmuring, and casting towards her friend an eloquent glance.

During the lifetime of Sir Henry the best possible understanding existed between Hall and lodge.

In it he heaped together masses of denunciation against them and others, which led him to such fear of these statements getting out in his lifetime that he sealed up the volume and delivered it to his son with the injunction not to read nor to publish what was written, until his father should have departed from life.

The Passion Play but once in a lifetime!

It is said that he wrote this book twelve years ago, and only rewrote it at the instance of the publishers, but no one who has met Tolstoy and become acquainted with him can doubt that he has been collecting material, thinking, planning, and writing on that book for a lifetime.