It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

The games were over, this was life.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

Bertha, blue-eyed like Mamma, was from the start her mother's daughter, destined for her mother's role in life.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

This retelling by Louis Zara of the brief, anguished life of Stephen Crane -- poet and master novelist at 23, dead at 28 -- is in novelized form but does not abuse its tragic subject.

Absent-minded, subject to unexplained tears Jubal would have bet his life that if Anne were to witness the Second Coming, she would memorize date, time, personae, events, and barometric pressure without batting her calm blue eyes.

The election was for life, unless the abbot was canonically deprived by the chiefs of his order, or when he was directly subject to them, by the pope or the bishop.

The life of Amalasunta was made the subject of a tragedy, the first play written by the young Goldoni and presented at Milan in ( 1733 ).

An autobiography ( from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write ) is an account of the life of a person, written by its subject.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

The acceptance of modernist design into everyday life was the subject of publicity campaigns, well-attended public exhibitions like the Weissenhof Estate, films, and sometimes fierce public debate.

The degree to which these external factors should influence adjudication is the subject of active debate, but that judges do draw of learning from other fields and jurisdictions is a fact of modern legal life.

The album's subject matter was largely centered on Love's tumultuous life between 2003 and 2007, and featured a polished folk-rock sound with much more acoustic work than previous Hole albums.

Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on " series " paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions.

In 1756 he returned to the subject of the still life.

Like nearly all aspects of Cesare Borgia's life, the date of his birth is a subject of dispute.

: or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.

) Yet another of the remarkable events in Defoe's life, the storm was the subject of his book The Storm.

My subject is a barren one – the world of nature, or in other words life ; and that subject in its least elevated department, and employing either rustic terms or foreign, many barbarian words that actually have to be introduced with an apology.

Article 8 provides a right to respect for one's " private and family life, his home and his correspondence ", subject to certain restrictions that are " in accordance with law " and " necessary in a democratic society ".

The Lincoln School built its curriculum around “ units of work ” that reorganized traditional subject matter into forms embracing the development of children and the changing needs of adult life.

Our physical bodies, our relationships-all of our life circumstances-are fragile and subject to change.

The life and works of Giulio Alenio are the subject of several conventions which have taken place in 1994 and 2010.

Although, in theory, the pump could work without it, the efficiency would drop drastically and the pump would be subject to extraordinary stresses that could shorten its life considerably.

In most countries, life and non-life insurers are subject to different regulatory regimes and different tax and accounting rules.

These demi-gods are subject to suffering and change like all other living beings, and have limited life of enjoyment at their heavenly abodes.

All of them were subject to the Grand Master, appointed for life, who oversaw both the Order's military efforts in the East and their financial holdings in the West.