"Life-and-death" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the Rhineland," wrote M. Maurice Barres,[297] "is a life-and-death question for us. We are going to carry to the Rhine our military and, I hope, our economic frontier. The rest will follow in its own good time. The future will not fail to secure for us the acquiescence of the population of the Rhineland, who will live freely under ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... it was Hal's Uncle George, and Hal was hugging the big wet man, while the man was jolly, and laughing as if the whole thing were a good joke instead of the life-and-death matter it had been. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore • Laura Lee Hope
... because that bleached dome beneath which brains were once housed, and those huge black cavities which were once the windows of a strange soul, and that mouth that once had a fleshy tongue that youled and clicked in an unknown language could not tell me its own life-and-death history from the time of its birth in the African forest to its final translation to a wall over a stable door in an old house ...
— A Traveller in Little Things • W. H. Hudson
... into other faces—Mrs. Ruston's and the maid Doris'? Or might there have been, since the last information relayed by Portia, a sudden illness? Might it be that there was going on now, in that house not a thousand yards away, another life-and-death struggle like the one which had made an end of all her hopes for the ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... knew he had no time to waste from his life-and-death mission. He could not elude this enemy, so he must finish him ...
— Bruce • Albert Payson Terhune
... resolve itself into one between Aryan and non-Aryan—the Slav and the Finn; and this again into one between the various members of the Slavonic family; then a life-and-death struggle with Asiatic barbarism in its worst form (the Mongol), with Tatar and Turk always ...
— A Short History of Russia • Mary Platt Parmele
... and more, from the impersonal phraseology of a medical bulletin. She told how the attack had come on; how they had put up a bed for him in the music room, where there was the most air, and begun what it was evident from the first would be a life-and-death struggle; she quoted what Rush had told her when he met the train. "I agree with Rush," she concluded. "They let me see him, for a few minutes, this morning, just so he'd know that I had come back. Yet it isn't possible not to believe that ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster |
