When he was over eighty years old he was still striving for the good of others.

Our provisions had run low, and there seemed little enough for two hungry men who had all day been striving with salt winds.

In his hand was a scroll inscribed as follows: "Six times twice six years have I striven after knowledge, and I now bequeath to the world the fruit of my toil, being six poisons.

They are leaving for the Front, to defend alongside of the heroic soldiers of Italy and France the disputed and sacred soil of our country, and to combat the German barbarians, who strive in vain to advance against the rampart which is formed by the breasts of the soldiers of three nations.

Nay, there are those among them, and many, thank Godweak women, too, among themwho have resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

O Flaccus, if th'Arabian phoenix strive By nature's warning to renew her kind, When, soaring nigh the glorious eye of heaven, She from her cinders doth revive her sex, Why should not Sylla learn by her to die, That erst have been the Phoenix of this land?

It is the law of life itself that every being seeks and strives toward the perfection of its kind, the realization of its own specific ideal in form and function, and a true harmony with its environment.

If by partial opinion or reverence towards them, however begotten in the minds of men, they strive to overbear or discountenance a good cause, their faults (so far as truth permitteth and need requireth) may be detected and displayed.

She always seemed to be tugging and striving at her load, and trying to step out fast and do a great deal of work.

The mind, whether praying or scorning, That tempts those dread secrets shall fail; But strive through the night till the morning, And mightily shalt thou prevail.

And now Frederic in turn would think and strive as Gervais's devoted lieutenant, in the great common task.

The Christians were more concerned in striving among themselves than in crushing the prostrate spirit of antiquity.

The Spirits of all three shall strive within me.

The writers appear to have been conscious that their work was striving towards a form which had not yet been achieved, though they were themselves vague as to what that form might be.

The more the younger patricians strove to insinuate themselves into favour with the plebeians, the more strenuously did the tribunes strive on the other hand to render them suspicious in the eyes of the commons by alleging that a conspiracy had been formed; that Cæso was in Rome; that plans had been concerted for assassinating the tribunes, for butchering the commons.

Restless endeavor, incessant striving from lower spheres of life to higher ones, from the sensuous to the spiritual, from enjoyment to work, from creed to deed, from self to humanitythis is the moving thought of Goethe's completed Faust.

Lord Russell was bent upon introducing a Reform Bill, and thus closing his career in forwarding the cause in which he had won his earliest and most famous laurels, and for which he had on two other occasions striven without success.

What I, though tableted, could never tell The din which here befell, And striving of the multitude.

I saw her going," she cried, striving between fear and anger.

"My love," answered Oswald, trying to calm himself, "I shall strive during my absence to restore to you your due rank in your father's country.

Strive above all else to secure the skeletonthe framework upon which the lecture is hung.

The Marshal, still pinioned, and with the rope round his neck, sat his horse with a half smile, as one who is slightly bored and yet strives out of courtesy not to show it.

For most men are happier in striving than in possession.

There would be great striving throughout the negro race, which would be affected thereby from first to last of them.

We lay us down in sorrow, Wrapt in the old mantle of our mother Night; In vexing dreams we 'strive until the morrow; Grief lifts our eyelids upand