Lived

Examples

• You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But how has she lived through all these years? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She has lived for countless ages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Whilst his father lived Gerald was not responsible for the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Houston lived some distance from the town and generally went home late at night, having to pass through a dark cypress swamp over a corduroy road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He scarcely ever took a meal in the house; he lived in the counting-house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• One lived in Fountain Court, and the other two lived in the Lane, and he had seen them all go home. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I had never liked Sir Percival, but the manner in which he left Lady Glyde made me feel ashamed of having eaten his bread and lived in his service. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Didn't Miss Crawley remark it, who has lived in the best company in Europe? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I lived long ago with mama; but she is gone to the Holy Virgin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was accustomed to speak of the larder when I lived with papa and mama, and I use the word almost unconsciously. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There I lived till Miss Julia married the late Sir John Verinder. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Did you not tell me your former master lived at Knowlesbury? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But I fell asleep before I had succeeded, and dreamed of the days when I lived in my godmother's house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This neighbour was a tradesman in a large way of business, who lived in a very respectable style of comfort. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Though her nephew had had no particular reason to hasten back on her account, she had not lived above six-and-thirty hours after his return. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He is as good a sort of fellow, I believe, as ever lived, repeated Sir John. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The reddleman lived like a gipsy; but gipsies he scorned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Plornish lived in Bleeding Heart Yard. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My papa lived to bail Mr. Micawber several times, and then expired, regretted by a numerous circle. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She went out to America when she was young, and lived in the town of Atlanta, where she married this Hebron, who was a lawyer with a good practice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He lived at the house of Benjamin West, and painted, and his portraits were shown at the Royal Academy and at the Society of Artists. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Everything he says will seem wonderful to their short lived generation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I think he must have lived among a lot of people who were very solemn, because I went out riding with him in the Bois de Boulogne and started in to tell him American stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Life, said Socrates, was deception; only the Soul lived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Of all that mighty host, none but the two faithful spies ever lived to set their feet in the Promised Land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have been feeling as if we had never lived so before. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It gave the name and the church but not where the lady lived. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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