Sentence examples for lief from inspiring English sources
adverb
Readily, willingly.
- I'd as lief have one as t'other.
His other works include De taal der liefde (1972; "The Language of Love"), Lieve jongens (1973; "Dear Boys"), Ik had hem lief (1975; "I Loved Him"), and Bezorgde ouders (1988; Parents Worry).
Lief found and nursed him to recovery.
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On the morning of March 26 , 1885 a force of about 100 North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and armed citizen volunteers moved toward Duck Lake under the command of Superintendent Lief Crozier.
Some say that Fairport's Liege & Lief, on which this appeared, was the best work Denny ever did.
Both added to the bargain-bin back-legend after her triumphs with Fairport Convention's Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief (both 1969).
"It's far in excess of what the U.S. Supreme Court has suggested would be constitutional," said David W. White-Lief, a civil litigator with Breakstone, White-Lief & Gluck, a Boston law firm that is not involved in the case.
However, in truth, they appear nimble and vigorous in this lengthy (over two-and-half hour) set that attempts to embrace the entirety of their diverse career, from 1969 masterpiece Liege & Lief to 2011's evocative Festival Bell.
He met Princess Lief, Queen Gruach's daughter from the Kingdom of Elf wick, in Caithness.
