Meanings of simple lives in English

He almost despised his ancestors for the simple lives they had led.

Mothers owe it to their nursing babies to lead wholesome, simple lives.

The great Father longs for simple lives, simple piety, perpetual thanksgiving.

These people have all led simple lives and they have worked.

A century ago people everywhere lived comparatively simple lives.

Out of such a country should come simple lives.

She is subtle, and clever, and sly; and these only mislead those who lead simple lives.'

They lived virtuous and simple lives for many generations, but slowly greed and power corrupted them.

She can not understand them because they live sweet, simple lives where home and church are throned.

They lived simple lives, and were obliged to work very long hours, but they were their own masters.

Their romantically simple lives.

We will have bread and cheese, and oh, may Heaven our simple lives prevent from luxury's contagion, weak and vile!

But I think the Underhills were more intelligent than intellectual, and people were still living rather simple lives, not yet impregnated with ideas.

On the wide, level river bottoms, sheltered by the enclosing hills, the Indians pitched their conical skin lodges and lived their simple lives.

In her youth, she "did lots of growing up in Argentina, living on the Altiplano, with people who lived very simple lives".

There they settled down and tended their flocks and lived the simple lives of their earliest ancestors who had dwelt in the land of Ur.