Vie

I prefer your eau de vie to your conversation.

He said: "C'est la vie"!

I sat stolidly puffing at my pipe and skipping over the pages of Henri Murger's Vie de Bohème.

"Around, from far and near, / the Trojans throng, and vie the captive youth to jeer."

Scarce stand the vessels hauled upon the beach, / and bent on marriages the young men vie / to till new settlements, while I to each / due law dispense and dwelling place supply, / when from a tainted quarter of the sky / rank vapours, gathering, on my comrades seize, / and a foul pestilence creeps down from high / on mortal limbs and standing crops and trees, / a season black with death, and pregnant with disease.

Some are saying reveal parties have gotten out of control, as couples vie for the most dramatic reveal and the accompanying social media attention.

C'est la vie!

C'est la vie.

The long-running game show has a unique format, in which three contestants vie to be the first to supply the question to an answer they are given.

Thus ended, for the present, this disgusting scene of iniquity and nonsense, in which all the actors seemed to vie with each other in prostituting the sacred names of friendship, generosity, and gratitude, in one of the meanest and most criminal transactions which history records.