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OE Andreas (1932) 1089 Nyston beteran ræd, þonne hie þa be hlidenan [read belidenan] him to lifnere [deade] gefeormedon.

OE Cynewulf Elene 1268 Nu synt geardagas æfter fyrstmearce forðgewitene, lifwynne geliden.

1435 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love (1896) 35 Fro þe begynynge forsoth of my lyfe-chaungyng [L. alteracionis uite mee]..thre ȝere ar ryn.

a1500 Consail & Teiching Vys Man (Cambr. Kk.1.5) in R. Girvan Ratis Raving & Other Early Scots Poems (1939) 68 Al suppos thai get lyf-grace, Ȝit have thai scham in euery place.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 788/20 Hic victus, lyfefode.

?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.iii^v Death..Taketh his swerde & smyteth asonder y^e lyfe vayne.

1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 1 ii. ii. 22 Crack'd some Life Artery with an overstrain, And dy'd of some Male Mischief in the Brain.

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 459 His son's life-gore his wither'd hands imbrews.

1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 152 Space region'd with life-air.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. i. ii. 13 He marches and fights, with victorious assurance, in this life-battle.

a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 274/2 The trees in their full life-beauty.

1847 N. Wiseman Unreality Anglican Belief in Ess. (1853) II. 421 Seated at the helm of his life-bark, that defies every storm.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 606 The life-thread..had been severed by the fatal shears.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right III. xxxix. 198 Failures and life-wrecks.

1899 W. James Talks to Teachers 257 The occasion and the experience..are nothing. It all depends on the capacity of the soul to be grasped, to have its life-currents absorbed by what is given.

1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity II. 355 Hunger and thirst..are the affections of its life-body.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xii. 283 It is gruesome, with no life-meaning.

1927 D. H. Lawrence Lovely Lady (1932) 230 He deemed it [sc. sex], as the Chinese do, one of the great life-mysteries.

1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 13 A life-wish so crackling with energy that it could overcome no matter what minatory fate.

1969 C. Bukowski Let. 16 Sept. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 351 Some of what has happened to me is my own fault..but the life-juice spit of a dying man will not, I hope, be without a vernacular of its own.

1985 AMHCA Journ. Jan. 16 Developing the isomorphic relationship between the client's life pattern and those in the metaphor..is only an initial step in the process.

2007 Independent 5 Feb. (Extra section) 22/1 Not for Dr De Grey the restricted-calorie route to life extension, a starvation diet that gives you an extra 20 years to wish you were dead.