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Then he added, with some grim humour, that if Druce had no objection to spending an hour with Roadmaster over a fire and a billy of tea, he would be glad of his company; for bushranging, according to his system, was but dull work. [11]
In the morning, when the nurse opened the blinds, that sunlight swept radiantly into the room, lavish with its caresses; always spending, always giving, the symbol of a loving care that had been poured out on her, unasked and unsought. [9]
I don't know what the Queen would think of this way of spending Sunday; but if Albert Edward never does anything worse, he does n't need half the praying for that he gets every Sunday in all the English churches and chapels. [4]
And while they were at this work, which was difficult, their wives put in the night spending the money, which was easy. [5]
And why are we spending our time and money on you? [9]
The Young Lady was spending the winter with us, and March, in spite of the calendar, turned out to be a winter month. [4]
Moreover, Prince Andrew was expected in Moscow, where old Prince Bolkonski was spending the winter, and Natasha felt sure he had already arrived. [2]
Mr. Norton was very gentle in what he had to say, and almost delicate, and he said: "Mr. Clemens, I have been spending some time with Mr. Darwin in England, and I should like to tell you something connected with that visit. [5]
She could not understand why he was so particularly animated and happy when, after getting up at daybreak and spending the whole morning in the fields or on the threshing floor, he returned from the sowing or mowing or reaping to have tea with her. [2]
The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of the pleasure of spending the evening with you. [2]
Yet all the time he laughed in his sleeve, for he foresaw the day when all this money the Two Strange People were spending in his mudirieh should become his own. [11]
I am twenty-two thousand dollars in debt, and shall earn the money and pay it within two years--and therefore I am not spending any money except when it is necessary. [5]
We learn that the, murderess, who is a woman of dazzling and transcendent beauty and about twenty six or seven, is a niece of Senator Dilworthy at whose house she has been spending the winter. [5]
To lie in the warm sand, which accommodates itself to any position of the body, and listen to the dash of the waves, is a dreamy and delightful way of spending a summer day. [4]
They were spending the summer at Kaltenleutgeben, a pleasant village near Vienna, but apparently not entirely quiet. [5]
I was spending the month of March 1892 at Mentone, in the Riviera. [5]
Nicholas was spending the last of his leave at home. [2]
I tell Maria that if I had the capacity for making money that she has for spending it I could assume the national debt. [4]
Leaving Alexandria and spending the winter on a lonely island in the tropics was an utterly incomprehensible idea. [10]
They were all spending the summer in New York. [8]
I took to spending more and more of my time at the county-seat, where I remained for days at a stretch, inventing business when there was none. [9]
I had intended spending a month somewhere in the mountains, so I came to Viking, and on to the summer hotel: but really this is too exciting for recreation. [11]
The people that spend your Jean Jacques' money will be spending mine too, if I don't take care. [11]
Jethro was spending some of his own, but not in the capital, and in a manner which was most effective. [9]
His kindly nature secretly approved of her spending a longer time in the Cathedral of St. Gudule than usual, praying for the royal sufferer who was so seriously ill. [10]
The hotel was satisfactorily kept, and Southern guests, from as far south as New Orleans, were spending the season there, and not finding time hang heavy on their hands. [4]
At times, she said, Ham was delirious and difficult to manage; at other times he sank into a condition of coma; and again he seemed to know her and Ralph, who had come up from Southampton, where he had been spending the summer. [9]
You have become quite a Yankee yourself, I believe, spending whole days with her, nursing that old man. [9]
The woman was piling up fortunes right along, the man was spending them --spending all his wife would give him a chance at, at any rate. [5]
Aunt Jacoba turned pale when she heard the great sum named, and she likewise was of opinion that old Im Hoff, who had of late been spending much money in vows and foundations, would never give forth so vast a sum. [10]
He greedily hung over this treasure, which was not for his spending, yet was his own--as though in a bank he had hoards of money which he might not withdraw. [11]
I lived in one: to expiate--to wipe out-- a past, by spending my life for others. [11]
If the spending of money could be of any use to him, I'd spend it --indeed I would; but since it can't be of any use, we must stay in our own home. [11]
It seemed that of late he had been keeping all the money for the sprinklers, and spending a good deal of it on Lise. [9]
After spending sleepless nights over his ruling desire for a full year, he at last attempted its execution--that is, attempted to disfigure the young woman. [5]
It was no news to her that the Mavicks were spending the summer there; all the world knew that, and society wondered what whim of Carmen's had taken her out of the regular summer occupations and immured her in the country. [4]
Excuse me, Vicomte--I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost...." And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. [2]
He said that Murat was spending the night less than a mile from where they were, and that if they would let him have a convoy of a hundred men he would capture him alive. [2]
He evidently had money, and was spending if freely. [5]
I had the misfortune of being for more than two years a pupil under the government of the first head-master, and the good luck of spending nearly the same length of time under the charge of his successor. [10]
Mother has given me money, and I'm spending my own little legacy, all but five thousand dollars of it. [11]
Then, when you've made it, you'll get what you've never had yet--the pleasure of spending money dug out of your own wits. [11]
They went to live in Kent County, as I have said, spending some winters in Philadelphia, where Mr. Grafton was thought to have interests, though it never could be discovered what his investments were. [9]
To speak frankly, Judge, I hadn't thought of spending the whole of what might otherwise prove a brilliant life in Ripton. [9]
What we see is not true freedom, but freedom run to riot, men struggling for themselves, spending on themselves the fruits of their inheritance; we see a government intent on one object alone--exploitation of this inheritance in order to achieve what it calls prosperity. [9]
From the first I had been but ill-pleased to see Herdegen so diligent over this idle sport and spending so many hours away from his sweetheart, when he was so soon to quit us all. [10]
Clemens also met his old teacher Bixby in New Orleans, and came back up the river with him, spending most of his time in the pilot-house, as in the old days. [5]
Boris made up his mind to avoid meeting Natasha, but despite that resolution he called again a few days later and began calling often and spending whole days at the Rostovs'. [2]
Was just up here spending the summer, for her health. [4]
The von Montforts had returned home, instead of spending the night at Kadolzburg, and neither Els nor the Swiss had the time or disposition to seek concealment. [10]
And so I grew up with my grandfather, spending the winters in town and the long summers on the Eastern Shore. [9]
I thought of going out and spending money for something unnecessary after it came, but concluded perhaps I better wait a little longer. [5]
We got away from Bethlehem and its troops of beggars and relic-peddlers in the afternoon, and after spending some little time at Rachel's tomb, hurried to Jerusalem as fast as possible. [5]
I got it from a clergyman I know who is spending the winter in Santa Barbara. [9]
She said in French--she is weak in French--that she had been spending a Sunday afternoon in a gathering of the "demimonde. [5]
After spending a few hours with him, he went to Chelsea to visit Carlyle, and at the end of a week returned to Manchester to begin the series of lecturing engagements which had been arranged for him. [6]
The individual, of course, must be enlightened; and local labour unions, recognizing this, are spending considerable sums all over the country on schools to educate their members. [9]
Our spirits rose considerably when he returned to report that Julia had unexpectedly been a trump, having quieted his mother by the surmise that he was spending the day with his Aunt Fanny. [9]
Humanity has always been cheap, but we're spending it rather lavishly just now. [9]
No combination could be more desirable for a young man who proposed to himself a career of getting money by adroit management and spending it in pure and simple self-indulgence. [4]
I feel just as if I had been spending $20,000 a month, and I feel reproached for this showy and unbecoming extravagance. [5]
But I don't approve of you're spending your time in this sort of work--(he waves a hand toward the bench)--which may never come to anything, and in doctoring people for nothing and patching up their troubles. [9]
Suddenly she experienced an overwhelming realization of the desperation of Hannah's plight,--the destiny of spending one's days, without sympathy, toiling in the confinement of these rooms to supply their bodily needs. [9]
As a consequence, Aleck made imaginary money much faster than at first she had dreamed of making it, and Sally's competency in spending the overflow of it kept pace with the strain put upon it, right along. [5]
Smith says that after spending nine days in trying to restrain them, and showing them how they deceived themselves with "great guilded hopes of the South Sea Mines," he abandoned them to their folly and set sail for Jamestown. [4]
Goodman was spending a large part of his time traveling back and forth between California and Washington, trying to keep business going at both ends. [5]

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