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.

I, John Gib, will wrestle all night for your sake, as Jacob strove with the angel."

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

The Guards and Highlanders strove in friendly emulation who should be first in the Russian redoubt; but Sir Colin, well ahead of his own men was first in the battery shouting: "We'll hae nane but Highland bonnets here!" and his troops rushed in after him like lions.

That put me on my mettle, for it was Elspeth's safety I now strove for, and the thought gave life to my leaden limbs.

The rising sun, darting an inquisitive beam 'twixt a leafy opening, fell upon Beltane's wide, slow-heaving breast; crept upwards to his chin, his cheek, and finally strove to peep beneath his slumberous, close-shut lids; whereat Beltane stirred, yawned, threw wide and stretched his mighty arms, and thereafter, blinking drowsily, sat up, his golden hair be-tousled, and stared sleepily about him.

he scarce could lift it; with teeth fierce-clenched he strove against his weakness until his breath waxed short and the sweat ran from him, but ever the great blade grew the heavier.

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.

I have before said that a change for the better had taken place in my person; this I strove by every means in my power to increase.

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.

This expedient succeeded; the frosts were slowly chased out of the kindling materials; a sickly but gradually increasing flame strove through the kindling stuff and soon began to play among the billets of the oak, the only fuel that could be relied on for available heat.

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

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 Spirits of all three shall strive within me.

The nobility was not content with its honorary privileges which were matters of comparative indifference, but strove after separate and sole political power, and sought to convert the most important institutions of the statethe senate and the equestrian orderfrom organs of the commonwealth into organs of the plebeio-patrician aristocracy.

For over me burned lustrous the dear eyes Of my beloved; I strove as at a joust To gain at end the guerdon of her smile.

By this time Telemachus and his father had cleansed their hands from the slaughter, and were come to where the queen was talking with those of her household; and when she saw Ulysses, she stood motionless, and had no power to speak, sudden surprise and joy and fear and many passions strove within her.

So country wenches pushed and strove amid the throng, and dainty ladies leaned from canopied galleries to shudder with dread or trill soft laughter; but each and every stared at one who stood alone, 'twixt armed guards, so young and fair and pale within her bonds, oft turning piteous face to heaven or looking with quailing eye where stake and chain and faggot menaced her with awful doom.