lifing

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T'ey do not reproduce t'eir kind, not'ing lifing comes from t'em, to go on lifing, on and on, better and better—or vorse, as Nature planned—vit' efery generation.

From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Stark, Harriet

I see him all in all, the lifing mind, Or nowhere in the vacant miles and years.

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George

T'ousantacres," returned Chainbearer, coolly, "you're frightenet at your own shadow; ant t'at comes, let me telt you, from not lifing in 'peace and harmony,' as you call it, yourself, wit' t'e law.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore