Lord Claud's handsome person, his freedom of speech, and his lavishly-spent gold, made him a favourite everywhere; and now he seemed about to employ his fascinations of mind and body for other purposes.Tom was to see how they served him in a different sort of life.The rapid pace at which they were travelling hindered conversation.…Cited from Tom Tufton's Travels, by Evelyn Everett-Green
I can safely say that since we started we have never sat down to a bad breakfast or dinner.Now, for a bit, we are going to lead a different sort of life.…Cited from The Treasure of the Incas, by G. A. Henty
Meanwhile quite a different sort of life was being led in the other wing of the palace.She could not but hear, from time to time, sounds of mirth and gaiety in the adjoining garden, or even through the solid partition-wall of the house.…Cited from Manasseh, by Maurus Jokai
Everyone has been so kind to me, Sylvia.In the future, if my life is spared, it is going to be a very different sort of life.I'm going to open it to all the kindness and companionship I can find in young and old.…Cited from Chronicles of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery #6]
The strongest bars that death could make -- and surely every one of us has some sore experience of their strength in holding dear ones from us -- those strongest bars were snapped, as a woman breaks the cotton thread in her sewing.Our Lord Jesus rose up again into life, and into a new, a higher, a different sort of life.…Cited from Quiet Talks on Following the Christ, by S. D. Gordon
I must live a different sort of life, mother; so I shall have to go away from you, I don't want you watching it.Cited from Ghosts, A Domestic Tragedy, by Henrik Ibsen
Jeems has a certain pride and he was turned against all the plantation people.His attitude is unfortunate because he longs so for a different sort of life and yet has no contact with young people except those of the swamp.I think he is beginning to trust me, for he will come in the mornings to pose for my picture of the swamp hunter.…Cited from Ralestone Luck, by Andre Norton
"If God would let me live, I might repent, and lead a different sort of life, and do all sorts of things to please Him; and then perchance He might think me more fit for heaven."Cited from The Cruise of the Mary Rose, by William H. G. Kingston
When I got old enough, and had money enough, I was determined to go west and seek my fortune; for I always felt that canalling was, somehow, beneath what I wanted to do and become.The packet swept past us, giving me a good deal the same glimpse into a different sort of life that a deckhand on a freighter has when he gazes at a liner ablaze with lights and echoing with music.On the deck of the packet sat a group of people who were listening to a tall stooped man, who seemed to be addressing them on some matter of interest.…Cited from Vandemark's Folly, by Herbert Quick
I tried not to think of the matter, but still those fearful words "too late" would come back to me; then I tried to persuade myself that I was young and strong, and as I had led a very different sort of life to most of the men, I was more likely than any one to escape the gripe of the fever.We had another trip on shore to bury poor Bob.…Cited from The African Trader, by W. H. G. Kingston
But then and now believe that he loved and loves you.Set him down as a friend -- as somebody to 'rest on' after all; and don't fancy that because we are away here in the wilderness (which blossoms as a rose, to one of us at least) we may not be full of affectionate thoughts and feelings towards you in your different sort of life in London.So sorry we are -- I especially, for I think I understand the grief especially -- about the household troubles which you hint at and Mr. Kenyon gave us a key to.…Cited from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. II (of 2), ed. by Kenyon