The monuments are generally simple; for the lives of literary men afford no striking themes for the sculptor.

Does life afford such limited choices?

Military life, particularly for troops living in barracks or sailors on ships at sea, affords scant privacy to begin with.

But her new life as a singer affords a different kind of pleasure, one she can no longer imagine doing without.

There is not a man on earth, whose life affords more various turns of fate than mine.

But did the retired life, in which he sought for shelter, afford him any greater happiness?

"Steve took advantage of all the business, cultural and personal growth opportunities that life afforded him," said Clyde Fritz, a friend and colleague.

"I work at the pace that my life affords," he said.

They were slow, sluggish, and dumb in just the deadly crafts of battle that life could never afford to neglect.

It was seldom indeed that her life had afforded her such an opportunity.