Lifetime

Examples

• This is the chance of my lifetime in that direction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Asks his mother to become, with him, a spy upon his father's transactions through a lifetime! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Every pulse of loverlike feeling which had not been stilled during Eustacia's lifetime had gone into the grave with her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If she died before her husband, he would naturally expect to be left in the enjoyment of the income, for HIS lifetime. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It took him at least ten years to pay off his college bills contracted during his father's lifetime. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One lifetime is too short, and I am busy every day improving essential parts of my established industries. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It never moves more than three times in a lifetime. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In my poor mother's lifetime, she went on, her friends were not always my friends, too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I tried to say that I had never seen the dead man in his lifetime--that there was no hope of identifying him by means of a stranger like me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A full lifetime would be required to plant the crop, and a second generation would be required to reap it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In the old days people devoted a lifetime to it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Not a lifetime, not to live together, not to have what people were always supposed to have, not at all. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Few Moors can ever build up their fortunes again in one short lifetime after so reckless an outlay. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is certain that several of our eminent breeders have, even within a single lifetime, modified to a large extent their breeds of cattle and sheep. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Such conditions are often minutely represented in our petty lifetimes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Kitty