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Come to life

verb

Be born or come into existence. Synonym: come into being.

Be lifelike, as of a painting.

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"Come to life" Quotes from Famous Books

... and a millionaire, for what I know. Well, I went into the house, and what do you think he told me? This must be a secret between us all—at least if we can keep it, now that it is in possession of that villain. Blanche's father is not dead. He has come to life again. The marriage between Clavering and the ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... he said, 'then when it's over, it's finished. Why come to life again? There's room under that ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... breathed off a scent as if they were come to life with the night, and were talking with fragrant eagerness. The farms huddled together in sleep, and pulled the dark shadow over them to hide from the supernatural white night; the cottages were locked and darkened. Helena walked on ...

— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence

... certain little actions of his, on the night when Jack Vernon's French wife confronted him under the trees of Richmond Terrace. Had a jealous rival planned that Diane should be there?—that she should come to life again to blast the happiness of the man who believed her dead? He tried to put away the suspicion, but it would not be stifled; ...

— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon

... Bah! bah! You are so, And do not know it. She will come to life— Such as you think so, such as you now are; But we must ...

— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

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