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Updated: June 5, 2025
No lists of her dead or wounded are published; it was at first a life-and-death struggle. While the total casualties killed, wounded, missing, and prisoners were estimated in the press reports and by the people as 600,000, I happen to know that they were more than 1,000,000.
Finally we went the round of the furniture; Curly Locks was duly discovered; and I was engaged in a life-and-death struggle for her shrieking person with the bed itself, when there was a crunching of gravel, and the "machine" drove up with Robin inside it.
He is a printer who got his arm crushed under one of the great rollers, and he has a wife and five little children dependent on their bread-winner." Annie was gone, leaving May suddenly transported out of herself, and plunged into the trials of her neighbours, the awfully near, common life-and-death trials, of which she had known so little. Her own seemed to sink into insignificance beside them.
All this calls forth an enormous quantity of activity, and causes American life to assume the aspect of a life-and-death struggle for mastery over the material forces of that part of the earth's surface upon which it thrives.
The last of those Roman emperors whom we call great was Theodosius. After him there is no great historic name, unless it be Justinian, who reigned when Rome had fallen. With Theodosius is associated the life-and-death struggle of Rome with the Gothic barbarians, and the final collapse of Paganism as a tolerated religion.
Neewa's eyes never left him for an instant. Had they been gimlets they would have bored holes. From the acuteness of this life-and-death stare one would have given Neewa credit for understanding that his own personal safety depended not so much upon his claws and his hug as upon Miki's seamanship. If Miki went overboard there would be left but one thing for him to do and that would be to follow.
While I'm playing a game like this game to-night, I IMAGINE the stakes are huge. And I IMAGINE I haven't another penny in the world." "Ah, so that with you it's always a life-and-death affair?" He looked away. "Oh, no, I don't say that." "Stupid phrase," I admitted. "But" there was yet one point I would put to him "if you have extraordinary luck always " "There's no such thing as luck."
Incredible as it may seem to us, there were shrewd money-lenders always ready for this sort of deal in life or life-and-death insurance: an eloquent testimony to the risks encountered in sailing unknown seas in the midst of well-known dangers. Marine insurance of the regular kind was, of course, a very different thing.
When a man finds himself in a danger with which he cannot combat, and remain human in danger, where defeat means dishonor, do you not agree with me, that the safest plan that man can adopt is to run away?" Her quickened heart might almost have been running a life-and-death race with her leaping pulse, but she answered him almost steadily. "Yes," she said to him. "You are quite right.
The very reasonable plea that the Imperial Government, whose energies had to be devoted to the life-and-death struggle in which the whole Empire was involved, had little time to devote to a serious study of such problems as the introduction of grave constitutional changes in India, was countered by the argument that the same Imperial Government seemed to find no difficulty in sparing time for such measures as Irish Home Rule, votes for women, and a large extension of the franchise in the United Kingdom.
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