I tell you it is a
lifelong wrong, and a
lifelong loss; but thank heaven, they don't do it now."
She opened her treasure-drawer: there lay the ear-rings and the locket--the signs of all her short happiness--the signs of the
lifelong dreariness that was to follow it.
But he kept his affection for certain poets of the graver, not to say gloomier sort, and he must have suffered his children to read them, pending that great question of their souls' salvation which was a
lifelong trouble to him.
There was a certain rude, though chivalrous grandeur in the act; and it marked not only the beginning of a
lifelong devotion and loyalty on the part of Shandy toward his young master, but was prophetic of the attitude which Norman of Torn was to inspire in all the men who served him during the long years that saw thousands pass the barbicans of Torn to crave a position beneath his grim banner.
But of how Spenser fared at college we know nothing, except that he was often ill and that he made two
lifelong friends.
The
lifelong dreams that I never had dared hope to see fulfilled were at last a reality--but under what forlorn circumstances!
You see, broken legs aren't like--like
lifelong invalids, so his won't last forever as Mrs.
His visitor, an ex-Cabinet Minister, a pronounced Radical and a
lifelong friend of Brott's, shrugged his shoulders.
He had a strong belief, which was a
lifelong habit, and required no definite evidence to rest on, that his father could spend a great deal of money if he chose; and since his education at Mr.
The time, the place, the circumstances under which we now stood face to face in the evening stillness of that dreary valley--the
lifelong interests which might hang suspended on the next chance words that passed between us--the sense that, for aught I knew to the contrary, the whole future of Laura Fairlie's life might be determined, for good or for evil, by my winning or losing the confidence of the forlorn creature who stood trembling by her mother's grave--all threatened to shake the steadiness and the self-control on which every inch of the progress I might yet make now depended.
In both sexes, occasionally, this
lifelong croak, accompanying each word of joy or sorrow, is one of the symptoms of a settled melancholy; and wherever it occurs, the whole history of misfortune is conveyed in its slightest accent.
"Look your last on the scarlet letter and its wearer!" -- the people's victim and
lifelong bond-slave, as they fancied her, might say to them.