1 Some day it was coming: it might not be soon, it might not be with in the lifetime of any animal now living, but still it was coming.
2 It was a profitable trade, and I found that by that time I had made enough to take the dairy of fifty cows that my father had in his lifetime.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 3 Every pulse of loverlike feeling which had not been stilled during Eustacia's lifetime had gone into the grave with her.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 4 Being himself childless, it was his openly expressed desire that the whole countryside should, within his own lifetime, profit by his good fortune, and many will have personal reasons for bewailing his untimely end.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles 5 When I was a very young man, Mr. Holmes, I loved with such a love as comes only once in a lifetime.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 6 This is the chance of my lifetime in that direction.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 7 But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime.
8 Meanwhile Nikolai Petrovitch had already, in his parents' lifetime and to their no slight chagrin, had time to fall in love with the daughter of his landlord, a petty official, Prepolovensky.
9 I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age.
10 Pierre went into that gloomy study which he had entered with such trepidation in his benefactor's lifetime.
11 If you don't trouble 'em, most of 'em'll work away underground for a lifetime an' spread out an' have little 'uns.'
12 It was a night of joy and terror, such as this man of stupendous emotions had already experienced twice or thrice in his lifetime.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 13 This unhappy boy, Miss Trotwood, has been the occasion of much domestic trouble and uneasiness; both during the lifetime of my late dear wife, and since.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME 14 Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.
15 Mrs. Reynolds informed them that it had been taken in his father's lifetime.