"Lifelong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Faith's initiation into the workings of Heeler's blouse factory. It was the beginning, also, of a lifelong friendship between herself ...
— The Beggar Man • Ruby Mildred Ayres
... sometimes looks,—forgive me, shade of Lord Somers![41]—a colossal machine for the manufacture of Philistines? How is Cobbett[42] to say this and not be misunderstood, blackened as he is with the smoke of a lifelong conflict in the field of political practice? how is Mr. Carlyle to say it and not be misunderstood, after his furious raid into this field with his Latter-day Pamphlets?[43] how is Mr. Ruskin,[44] after his pugnacious political economy? ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... against it," she said. "Things have come to a climax in that quarter at last and, by all accounts, she's got to leave her lifelong home. And God judge Nicholas Bewes, for he's doing a thing that will put him on the wrong side of ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts
... smile at the apprehensions of her friends, but her preparations were not undertaken without a secret dread of the responsibilities she was assuming. Helen, however, was disposed to treat the matter humorously. "Dr. Buxton is a lifelong Democrat," she said; "consequently he must know all about it. Father used to tell him he liked his medicine better than his politics, bitter as some of it was; but in a case of this kind, Dr. Buxton's politics have a distinct ...
— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris
... more to the young graduate. Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. The life of a physician becomes ignoble when he suffers himself to feed ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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