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this sinful life.” On the other hand, we are told that Jesus called Lazarus from the grave, not by way of punishment, but quite the contrary.

“On days like this, one feels that Schopenhauer is wrong after all, and that life is something really worth living for.”- Grant Allen: The Curate of Churnside.

   Large as life. Of the same size as the object represented.
   On my life. I will answer for it by my life; as, “Il le fera j'en répondes sur ma vie.”
   To bear a charmed life. To escape accidents in a marvellous manner.
   To know life. In French, “Savoir vivre” - that is, “Savoir ce que c'est que de vivre.” “Not to know life,” is the contrary- “Ne savoir pas ce que c'est que de vivre.”
   To the life. In exact imitation. “Done to the life.” “Faire le portrait de quelqu'un au naturel” (or) “daprès nature.”

Life-boat (A). A boat rendered especially buoyant for the purpose of saving those who are in peril of their life at sea.

Life-buoy (A). A float to sustain two or more persons in danger of being drowned at sea.

Life-Guards Two senior regiments of the mounted body-guard, comprising 878 men, all six feet high; hence, a fine, tall, manly fellow is called “a regular Life-guardsman.”

Life Policy (A). An assurance to be paid after the death of the person.

Life Preserver (A). A buoyant jacket, belt, or other appliance, to support the human body in water; also a loaded staff or knuckle-duster for self-defence.

Lift To have one at a lift is to have one in your power. When a wrestler has his antagonist in his hands and lifts him from the ground, he has him “at a lift,” or in his power.

“ `Sirra,' says he, `I have you at a lift.
Now you are come unto your latest shift.' ”
Percy: Reliques; Gay and Amarant

Lift not up your Horn on High (Psalm lxxv. 5.) Do not behave scornfully, maliciously, or arrogantly. (See under Horn.)

Lift up the Heel against Me (To). To kick me (physically or morally); to treat with contumely or contempt: to oppose, to become an enemy. As an unruly horse kicks the master who trusts and feeds him.

“Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted his heel against me.”- Psalm xli. 9.