Pursue a positive and satisfying existence

Usage examples of living.

The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.

So I will but bid thee be comforted and abide in thy love for the living and the dead.

In fact, upon hearing that certain masters were dissecting living nymphs in order to ascertain the cause of their madness, he formally abjured his Profession of Faith and quit the Scientists.

These protected the main bodies by a process of ablation so that to the opposition each man appeared to flare up under fire like a living torch.

Such persons may be accustomed to luxurious living, and there is evidently a predisposition to abnormal activity of the alimentary functions.

As to them of the Dry Tree, though some few of them abode in the kingdom, and became great there, the more part of them went back to the wildwood and lived the old life of the Wood, as we had found them living it aforetime.

A swarm of birds-gulls and ternswas wheeling over half an acre of water that seemed to be aboil with living things.

Manning a month, when Mum began to complain about all the Aborigines living in the swamp.

Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will.

The glands of Drosera absorb matter from living seeds, which are injured or killed by the secretion.

He remembered Aby living, Aby on Moon, blithe and beautiful, coming down the road in the safe lowlands.

They have targeted Glenn Abies because he stands for a way of living that we as members of the White Race believe in and hold to be true.

These patterns are abstracted for the most part from leaves and flowers - the rose, the lotus, the acanthus, palm, papyrus - and are elaborated, with recurrences and variations, into something transportingly reminiscent of the living geometries of the Other World.

In the beginning of November I sold shares for fifty thousand francs to a man named Gamier, living in the Rue du Mail, giving up to him a third part of the materials in my warehouse, and accepting a manager chosen by him and paid by the company.

The most they can manage is a sort of diagonal slouch: feet on the floor, necks bent up against the bulkhead, Acton cradling her like a living hammock.