And I'd have made them strong, so strong Outlasting towers and towns

"Yes; if it could be morning all day, and childhood could outlast our whole lives, it would be very charming.

When first young Maro in his boundless mind A work t' outlast immortal Rome designed, Perhaps he seemed above the critic's law, And but from nature's fountains scorned to draw: But when t' examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.

They endured having the two proconsuls named by the praetor urbanus rather than to have the consuls elected under his direction, because now these proconsular officials would limit their activities to the elections and consequently would appear to have been invested with no powers outlasting them.

From time to time the shock of some great blast of air would seem to rock upon its foundations even that ancient pile, those heavy walls of hewn stone builded in times of honest workmanship by forgotten Sieurs de Montalais who had meant their home to outlast the ages.

He proves, that both the Danes and Saxons buried their men of eminence under piles of earth, "which admitting," says he "neither ornament, epitaph, nor inscription, may, if earthquakes spare them, outlast other monuments: obelisks have their term, and pyramids will tumble; but these mountainous monuments may stand, and are like to have the same period with the earth.

It is of God, and will outlast a hundred political revolutions.

] Even to an uncritical eye, the differences between ungulates and carnivores of to-day are many and obvious, but as we trace them back into the past we follow on converging lines, and in our search for the prototypes of the carnivora we are led to the Creodonta, contemporary with Condylarthra, which we have seen giving origin to hoofed beasts, but outlasting them into the succeeding age.

The duration of the Treaty was limited to ten years, and has not been extended; but it is not too much to hope that it has had some effect in engendering feelings of friendliness, and of community of interest, which may long outlast itself.

In fact, it is an open question whether our acute mountain-sickness would have permitted us to outlast a long storm, or left us enough appetite to use the provisions.

Their very style was ephemeral, and their interest could not outlast the generation to amuse which they were penned.

This is the secret of small mules outlasting large ones on the prairies.

He assured himself fiercely that he could not have been in the water for more than five minutes at the longest, and reminded himself that he had often before lived in it for hours, and that this power, which was so much greater than his own, could not outlast him.

If we build houses, they are generally of wood, and hardly calculated to outlast the builder.

The polished pillar different sculptures grace; A work outlasting monumental brass.

A work outlasting monumental brass.

It would have astonished the gods, who were so joyous over the consequence of their associate's irregularities, had they been told that their pet was destined to outlast them all, and to affect human affairs, by his action, long after their sway should be over.

Yet they are outlasting the forage, and to-night against some opinion I decided Christopher must go.

" Genius may outlast a few such meannesses, but they will murder it at last, and the man who by pot-boiling has gained the opportunity to create a real work of art finds there is no more art left in him.

His Contrat Social might not, perhaps, in the eyes of a committee of philosophical Rhadmanthus's, atone for his occasional admiration of christianity: and thus some crime, either of church or state, disfranchise the whole race of immortals, and their fame scarcely outlast the dispute about their earthly remains.

Yet, more, he knows not the real Ireland who cannot feel within that woe the heart of power and joy,the strong life outlasting darkest night,the soul that throbs incessantly under all the calamities of the visible world, throughout the long tragedy of our history.

The majesty, the vastness of an imperial polity, outlasting all states and kingdoms, all social changes and political revolutions, answered at once to the promises of the prophecies, and to the antecedent idea of the universal kingdom of God.

It may be they'll outlast us; an' so I say as a friend, save one shot; save it for yourself, Cap.

Only by courage good as their own, And strength outlasting theirs, Did our boys at last drive the rebels off.

Survival is an outliving, or outlasting of something else.