lives

• For our lives are all made up of trifles. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• "An' none o' the lives was as easy to manage as that one. —  Charlie to the Rescue
• Now, although the Government make no difference between one party or the other, with the exception that some may be honoured with the axe instead of the gibbet, you will observe what we do; and as our lives are already forfeited by attainder, we make no scruple of putting out of the way any one whom we may even suspect of betraying us. —  Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
• On their passage they had been attacked and captured by the felucca That we have escaped with our lives is a mercy, when we reflect what atrocious villains are those into whose hands we fell, and from whom you have so nobly rescued us. —  Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War
• And, even if our lives could be assured to us, what inducement is there to us to serve under British bunting again? —  The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba

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