To my mind this Marionette is
alive; but if, by any evil chance, he were not, then that would be a sure sign that he is wholly dead!"
Adventures Of Pinocchio
"It would trot and prance, perhaps; but it wouldn't eat oats," replied the boy, laughing at the idea." And of course it can't ever be
alive, because it is made of wood."
The Marvelous Land of Oz
"Even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive."
If I have seeds and can make flowers grow the garden won't be dead at all--it will come alive."
Secret Garden
When day came the Princess went to the room to see if he was still alive, and taking the bottle put it to his nostrils, which soon brought him to himself.
With all this the Irishman decided to stay; but that night there were three at him for every one that was there the two nights before, and it looked very unlikely that he would be alive in the morning after all that he got.
Yellow Fairy Book
He told me that was true; but that as there was no proof of my being dead, he could not act as executor until some certain account should come of my death; and, besides, he was not willing to intermeddle with a thing so remote: that it was true he had registered my will, and put in his claim; and could he have given any account of my being dead or alive, he would have acted by procuration, and taken possession of the ingenio (so they call the sugar-house), and have given his son, who was now at the Brazils, orders to do it.
He said I might do so if I pleased, but that if I did not, there were ways enough to secure my right, and immediately to appropriate the profits to my use: and as there were ships in the river of Lisbon just ready to go away to Brazil, he made me enter my name in a public register, with his affidavit, affirming, upon oath, that I was alive, and that I was the same person who took up the land for the planting the said plantation at first.
To mend the matter, when we came to Pampeluna it continued snowing with so much violence and so long, that the people said winter was come before its time; and the roads, which were difficult before, were now quite impassable; for, in a word, the snow lay in some places too thick for us to travel, and being not hard frozen, as is the case in the northern countries, there was no going without being in danger of being buried alive every step.
Robinson Crusoe
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be
alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.
Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The conditions fostering the growth of that supreme,
alive excellence, as well in work as in play, ought to be preserved with a most careful regard lest the industry or the game should perish of an insidious and inward decay.
Mirror of the Sea
But to feel that she was
alive, and Phoebus also, meant that tortures, shocks, alternatives, life, were beginning again.
Notre Dame de Paris
Suddenly he again felt that he was alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head.
Looking into Napoleon's eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one alive could understand or explain.
War and Peace
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