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    1. The poor, in order to obtain food, exert themselves to gratify those fancies of the rich ; and to obtain it more certainly, they vie with one another in the cheapness and perfection of their work


    2. “Sounds like the Huntress's catikin is already preparing to vie with her mistress for the affections of the Elf


    3. Now there were only two serious contenders on the block to vie for the accolade of premier news provider


    4. Besides, how are diminishing (capital) resources expected to vie for cheaper consumer products when many workers will find themselves either under-employed or competing in greater numbers for lower paying jobs? (I exaggerate to make a point


    5. And yet, when he heard I was to come out here to vie for the hand of the Serenor maiden, he gifted me with her most precious possession


    6. And their girls of several ages seemed to quietly vie for the opportunity to serve Mashu, who had tried to resume his reserved attitude, but without as much success as he’d had before


    7. A vie for position wouldn’t be unusual


    8. It was one of my nineties tracks- C’est Le Vie by B*witched; I mean with a * and everything


    9. The mountains to their north, on the western edge of the tilted valley that they had turned away from, had held some promise, but there would be many to vie for the choice spots that traditionally belonged to those who were old in the land


    10. its two occupants appeared to vie for control of the reins, finally overturning, throwing its

    11. had turned away from, had held some promise, but there would be many to vie for the choice


    12. C’est la vie


    13. Indeed all are impressed and happy to be letting their daughters vie for this prize!


    14. We ate lunch together and rolled our eyes at silly boys trying to vie for our attention


    15. Groups would vie over territory or some building, much like the gangs of earth fought with one another, an endless cycle of violence


    16. Thus the United States couldn’t kill Saddam Hussein but it was perfectly all right to bomb the country, killing thousands of innocent men, women and children, and if he just so happened to be killed, c’est la vie


    17. It validates its reason and senses through observation gained visa vie its reason and senses: in other words it is a classic example of circular logic


    18. Harsh? Yes, but skepticism is not an ideology that exists visa vie a robust relationship with its antithesis


    19. They vie with the


    20. Ivan and Gabriel in their turn vie with each other in

    21. “La vie comme oeuvre d’art” {Life as a Work of Art} : if I am full of hatred, even if I am not completely so but only in part, this hatred originated in my intrauterine experience, this hatred pollutes my being and since actions follow being , if I have repressed hatred within me that I am unaware of, when I think I will inevitably think with hatred and not with love


    22. Espronceda is to Byron in wit and to Goethe indepth, he can vie with either as a harmonious


    23. For once waiters seemed to vie in serving rather than in neglecting


    24. The mindless herd swarmed chaotically and Cadman had to vie for his position, forcing others out of his way to maintain a place on the edge of the pack


    25. What is the most highly balanced dynamic in sports? Two equal, opposing teams with an object in-between, which they vie for


    26. Full of wonder at so strange a form of madness, they flocked to see it from a distance, and observed with what composure he sometimes paced up and down, or sometimes, leaning on his lance, gazed on his armour without taking his eyes off it for ever so long; and as the night closed in with a light from the moon so brilliant that it might vie with his that lent it, everything the novice knight did was plainly seen by all


    27. "Whence it arises," he continued, "that when we see any person well dressed and making a figure with rich garments and retinue of servants, it seems to lead and impel us perforce to respect him, though memory may at the same moment recall to us some lowly condition in which we have seen him, but which, whether it may have been poverty or low birth, being now a thing of the past, has no existence; while the only thing that has any existence is what we see before us; and if this person whom fortune has raised from his original lowly state (these were the very words the padre used) to his present height of prosperity, be well bred, generous, courteous to all, without seeking to vie with those whose nobility is of ancient date, depend upon it, Teresa, no one will remember what he was, and everyone will respect what he is, except indeed the envious, from whom no fair fortune is safe


    28. He also admired another that came in composed of fair young maidens, none of whom seemed to be under fourteen or over eighteen years of age, all clad in green stuff, with their locks partly braided, partly flowing loose, but all of such bright gold as to vie with the sunbeams, and over them they wore garlands of jessamine, roses, amaranth, and honeysuckle


    29. They were at the Renan Vie de Jesus stage


    30. softness might vie with that of the most delicate of our sex, and whose

    31. By his he re tica l vie ws on sport a nd som a, by the sca nda lous unorthodoxy of his se x-life , by his re fusa l to obe y the te a chings of Our Ford a nd be ha ve out of office hours, 'e ve n a s a little infa nt,'" (he re the Dire ctor m a de the sign of the T), "he ha s prove d him se lf a n e ne m y of Socie ty, a subve rte r, la die s a nd ge ntle m e n, of a ll Orde r a nd Sta bility, a conspira tor a ga inst Civiliza tion itse lf


    32. The intoxica tion of succe ss ha d e va pora te d; he wa s the old se lf se e m e d unpre ce de nte dly he a vie r tha n the surrounding a tm osphe re


    33. About two-thirds of the way along the Faubourg Saint-Honore, and in the rear of one of the most imposing mansions in this rich neighborhood, where the various houses vie with each other for elegance of design and magnificence of construction, extended a large garden, where the wide-spreading chestnut-trees raised their heads high above the walls in a solid rampart, and with the coming of every spring scattered a shower of delicate pink and white blossoms into the large stone vases that stood upon the two square pilasters of a curiously wrought iron gate, that dated from the time of Louis XII


    34. The gombeenwoman Eliza Tudor had underlinen enough to vie with her of Sheba


    35. Yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even venture to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory! perfectly well turned and fashioned, the proud stiffness of which distented its skin, whose smooth polish and velvet softness might vie with that of the most delicate of our sex, and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root: through the jetty springs of which the fair skin shewed as in a fine evening you may have remarked the clear light through the branchwork of distant trees overtopping the summit of a hill: then the broad of blueish-casted incarnate of the head, and blue serpentines of its veins, altogether composed the most striking assemblage of figure and colours in nature


    36. This was partly to be ascribed to a necessity rising out of the French Revolution, whereby men of substance thought it an expedient policy to relax in their ancient maxims of family pride and consequence; and partly to the great increase and growth of wealth which the influx of trade caused throughout the kingdom, whereby the merchants were enabled to vie and ostentate even with the better sort of lairds


    37. But she’ll understand! You know, les petites miseres de la vie humaine,’ he said, as it were apologizing to the princess


    38. The horses of the Nine cannot vie with him; tireless, swift as the flowing wind


    39. Shadow has departed! I will be a shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying


    40. Helene’s box was filled and surrounded from the stalls by the most distinguished and intellectual men, who seemed to vie with one another in their wish to let everyone see that they knew her

    41. There were a great many ladies and some of Nicholas’ Moscow acquaintances, but there were no men who could at all vie with the cavalier of St


    42. Elle me soupçonnera toute sa vie


    43. J'ai menti toute ma vie, all my life, all! I should like


    44. Rod, Le Sens de la Vie, pp


    45. "—"Le Sens de la Vie


    46. The first thing from Maupassant's writings which after that fell into my hands was Une Vie, which somebody advised me to read


    47. Une Vie is an excellent novel, not only incomparably the best novel by Maupassant, but almost the best French novel since Hugo's Les Misérables


    48. In Une Vie the fundamental thought is the perplexity in the presence of the cruel senselessness of the agonizing life of a beautiful woman, who is ruined by the gross sensuality of a man; here it is not only the perplexity, but also the indignation of the author at the sight of the welfare and success of a gross sensuous beast, who by his very sensuality makes a career for himself and attains a high position in the world, an indignation also at the sight of the corruption of that milieu in which the hero attains his success


    49. In spite of the beautiful descriptions, full of refined humour, of a fashionable watering-place and of the activity of the doctors in this place, we have here the same male, Paul, who is just as base and heartless as the husband in Une Vie, and the same deceived, ruined, yielding, weak, lonely, always lonely, dear woman, and the same indifferent triumph of insignificance and baseness as in Bel-Ami


    50. On the one side, the success of the first novels, newspaper laudations, and flattery of society, especially of the women; on the second, the evergrowing rewards, which, however, do not keep pace with the constantly growing demands; on the third,—the insistence of publishers, who vie with one another, flatter, implore, and no longer judge of the quality of the productions offered by the author, but in ecstasy accept everything which appears over the name that has established its reputation with the reading public











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