And if it is not there in the beginning, even a life spent among books might not help.

No one, she thought, can be worth another's entire life spent in subservience.

Honestly, she wasn't sure that even a life spent attending the right sort of church would have prepared her for this.

Indeed, a life spent in the corporate office, what more could anyone want from human existence?

His life had been spent on that river, white in morning, yellow at noon, black by supper.

An entire life spent living with a fear of the past stretched out before her.

They have a rugged dignity that suggests a life spent far from an urban center.

He had by that time spent half his life in India.

A life spent in the service of the state.

I remembered another life and time spent on a fast motorcycle.