Resolved, in case of my outliving father and being in good health, to give my efforts to the intellectual culture of women, without regard to salary; if possible, connect myself with liberal Christian institutions, believing, as I do, that happiness and growth in this life are best promoted by them, and that what is good in this life is good in any life.

If that is the case, Bella will outlive all of us.

Even you, with all you colossal assurance, could not face it or outlive it.

Oh, the work is hard and the days are long, But hammers are tools for men, And granite endures and steel is strong, Outliving both brush and pen.

[Looking a little less discomposed] why, indeed, ten thousand pounds D. And to be sure of outliving him, Madam!

Money and fashion are well represented at it; and as Zadkiel and the author of Pogmoor Almanac say those powers have to rule for a long time, we may take it for granted that the Parish Church will yet outlive many of the minor raving academies in which they are absent.

"Yeah; yo' en' or Peter's en'?" "By every law of probability, Peter will outlive me.

Advertising is the salvation of civilization, for civilization cannot outlive advertising a century.

He had as much confidence in his homebred speech as Bacon had want of it, and exclaims, "Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

He knows there is no such misery as to outlive good name, nor no such folly as to put it in practice.

You are raising a monument that will outlive your present feelings; and it should therefore be constructed in such a manner as to excite no other association than that of respect and admiration for your character and genius.

It was no unusual thing in those days for ladies in semi-public life to outlive several reputations.

A look, a pressure of the hand, A sign of hope, a song of cheer, May journey over sea and land, Outliving many a sterile year, To find at last the destined hour When they shall leap to bud and flower.

Not yet have people got tired of wondering at her marriage with Piozzi, or of amusing themselves with the gossip of the old lady who remained a wit at eighty years old, and, having outlived her great contemporaries, was happy in not outliving her own faculties.

But I have, as a balancing prophet, to face the high probability of its outliving me for some generations.

Not only the writer of books, but the commander of armies, and the deliverer of nations, will easily outlive all noisy and popular reputation; he may be celebrated for a time by the publick voice, but his actions and his name will soon be considered as remote and unaffecting, and be rarely mentioned but by those whose alliance gives them some vanity to gratify by frequent commemoration.

SUR, as a French prefix, means Upon, Over, or After: as, sur-name, a name upon a name; sur-vey, to look over; sur-mount, to mount over or upon; sur-render, to deliver over to others; sur-feit, to overdo in eating; sur-vive, to live after, to over-live, to outlive.

Whereupon, therefore, that such may outlive their day of grace, is out of the question ...

I do not know where there is to be found a sweeter or tenderer expression of a poet's grief at the death of a poet-friend, grief mitigated only by the knowledge that the dead man's songs, his "nightingales," are outliving him.

This emotion also was not divine; and so might not outlive the gainless months

Satan, perhaps, can explain how he has managed to outlive his partner.

Mary kneels before her Son, looking up in his face with unutterable affection; he regards her with a calm, sad look, "as if within his noble soul there still remained the recollection of his sufferings and hers, outliving the pang of death, the descent into the grave, and which the resurrection had not yet dispelled."

They suggested that an annuity of a thousand pounds a year, in shape of dower, should be secured to their client in the event of her outliving Mr. Prosper.

If such a thing should happen as that I should outlive you, I wish you would make me your literary legatee and executor.

Survival is an outliving, or outlasting of something else.