Which preposition to use with life
" This said, she twists the thread around his ugly spindle once, 4 Snaps off the last bit of the life of that Imperial dunce.
The first part of the sentence was cancelled on account of his former services, but he was degraded, imprisoned, escaped, and finished his life in Spain in poverty and obscurity, deserted by all his friends and his wife.
We change from a self-centre to a God-centre; from the thought of whether the world applauds to whether God approves; from the thought of keeping our own life to the thought of preserving our own integrity; from isolation from all other souls to a sympathy with them, an understanding of their needs, and a desire to help their lives.
Living in the country, with people constantly staying in the house, gives one much insight into other people's way of living and what are the necessities of life for them.
Redemption looms up as the great economic force of Timethat which inspires and preserves our powers, directs our energies, creates opportunity, brings to pass our most high and holy desires, and fills life with satisfying and abiding things.
Waddington, Richard, senator of the Seine Inferieure; family life at country home of; early career of; story of the Prince of Wales and.
People admired not only the wise sovereign who had weathered successfully so many changes, but the beautiful woman's life as wife and mother.
There are some mighty big fish away down in them parts, you may bet your life on that; trout that it wouldn't be pleasant to handle.
One saves his own life by instinct, I suppose.
There is the nature that refuses to be shut up to the petty, that will not content itself with one street or town, that steps out into life from childhood with the step of the conqueror, and walks among us; one who was born a king.
Wherever, to-day, there is a young man in whose heart is stirring a great devotional dream for the race, who longs to project his life into the most enduring and far-reaching influence, who craves the exercise of great gifts and powers, there is a man whose heart God is calling to possibilities such as no one can measure, and to triumphs such as no one can forecast!
He was named to the Vatican, where necessarily there was much less to do in the way of social life than at the Quirinal.
The usages which stood in the way of our union, appeared to me barbarous and absurd, and I thought that, banishment from my country, with Veenah, would be infinitely better than any other condition of life without her.
This soil bed is about seven years old, and has been seeded almost simultaneously by pines, firs, Libocedrus, and Sequoia, presenting a simple and instructive illustration of the struggle for life among the rival species; and it was interesting to note that the conditions thus far affecting them have enabled the young Sequoias to gain a marked advantage.
Just when the orator had reached the most important point in his harangue, and was pouring forth a torrent of impassioned eloquence, the platform would begin to move, or the audience would insist on turning the gathering into an imaginary "scrum," and almost crushing the life out of those who happened to be in the middle of the crowd.
What we make of our lives through wages depends upon ourselves.
She told them of the hope of life after death with God in Heaven.
But many a Christian goes through life like a happy child, scarcely conscious at any time of deep guilt, and never overwhelmed by intense conviction or despair.
For biology has a wider and a saner outlook than medical science; it does not start from the abnormal, but with life under normal conditions.
Although all of them had brilliant lives before them, not one of them had made as yet more than a step toward his accomplishment.
You would strike him as personally capable, but you would fail to strike him as priestess of the idea which God has now called to life within man's bosom, and of the struggle towards the realisation of that ideaeducation by developmentthe destined means of raising the whole human race....
Wherever there is a strong man, leaning down in fire and tenderness to help the lives about him, there must be a loyal and loving congregation, with here and there in it some one who more fully appreciates and understands.
We got very little country life during those years at the Foreign Office.
But the Ouzel never calls forth a single touch of pity; not because he is strong to endure, but rather because he seems to live a charmed life beyond the reach of every influence that makes endurance necessary.
"He must throw for his life against the six.