Spent Sentence Examples

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  • I spent enough time out here a few years ago.

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  • He wore a mask and spent a lot of time in the apartment.

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  • Damian went to the gym, where Darian spent most of his time.

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  • I spent forty minutes alone with the director and related all the situations where your uncanny tips were involved.

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  • I've spent a lifetime looking at long term implications.

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  • Their lives are spent in toiling for the rich.

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  • In all the time I spent in the woods as a young girl, that's the first time I've seen a bear.

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  • He'd spent so long hoping Darian became what he once was.

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  • There we spent many happy hours and played at learning geography.

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  • He's spent half the day on the phone with his shrink-doctor.

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  • Last summer I spent in one of the loveliest nooks of one of the most charming villages in New England.

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  • Before returning to Bilibin's Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some time in the shop.

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  • Quinn spent the whole time you were pregnant talking about him and me becoming friends with benefits.

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  • After my first visit to Boston, I spent almost every winter in the North.

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  • You have spent your life in idleness.

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  • Baby Claire helped too, by taking her turn by demanding attention while I spent the time worrying about how I could protect the nest of fragile souls under my care.

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  • One day spent with the blind children made me feel thoroughly at home in my new environment, and I looked eagerly from one pleasant experience to another as the days flew swiftly by.

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  • The summer and winter following the "Frost King" incident I spent with my family in Alabama.

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  • It makes me most happy to remember the hours we spent helping each other in study and sharing our recreation together.

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  • I remember with deepest gratitude the kindness of these dear friends and the happy days I spent with them.

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  • Here in Dr. Bell's laboratory, or in the fields on the shore of the great Bras d'Or, I have spent many delightful hours listening to what he had to tell me about his experiments, and helping him fly kites by means of which he expects to discover the laws that shall govern the future air-ship.

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  • Teacher and I spent nine days at Philadelphia.

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  • I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine.

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  • You and I spent hours together, for years and years.

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  • Martha and Betsy spent many a weekend searching out of the way shops and country auctions for their antiques.

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  • I spent my life at battle.

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  • Miss Sullivan and I spent the rest of the winter with our friends, the Chamberlins in Wrentham, twenty-five miles from Boston.

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  • In March Helen and Miss Sullivan went North, and spent the next few months traveling and visiting friends.

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  • We spent about three weeks in Boston, after leaving New York, and I need not tell you we had a most delightful time.

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  • Her every waking moment is spent in the endeavour to satisfy her innate desire for knowledge, and her mind works so incessantly that we have feared for her health.

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  • So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express!

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  • The one hundred and twenty-five dollars annually subscribed for a Lyceum in the winter is better spent than any other equal sum raised in the town.

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  • It was one of those afternoons which seem indefinitely long before one, in which many events may happen, a large portion of our natural life, though it was already half spent when I started.

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  • From my point; money was well spent.

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  • The next three days were so spent.

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  • Once aboard my flight I spent the next several hours squeezed between a talkative sailor and a woman with a fussy child.

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  • They smell like they spent years on the ground.

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  • July stretched into August, and just before the election, Jennifer Radisson spent her promised week at Bird Song.

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  • Now, she was at least half the woman he'd spent lifetimes loving and hating.

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  • She looked him over, silently dismissing any notion that this creature spent much time in the mortal world.

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  • I spent too long fighting to live on my terms to give in, even to you.

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  • Every day she spent in this world, she became more confused.

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  • He'd spent the past three nights in bed with another woman after completely destroying her whole world!

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  • He'd spent hours on her, disabling her and then hurting her.

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  • He.d spent most his life in Hell and remembered little of the Immortal world.

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  • He'd spent ten sun-cycles looking for her.

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  • She spent the next day in the game room, and the next.

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  • The greater part of Poggio's long life was spent in attendance to his duties in the papal curia at Rome and elsewhere.

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  • They learned that Chilon was a very quiet man, that he never spoke about himself, and that he spent all his time in trying to make his country great and strong and happy.

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  • Just half a century ago, Americans on average spent more than 20 percent of their income on food.

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  • Of course, politics being what it is, the Peace Dividend was spent a dozen times over by as many special interests who felt they were the most deserving of such an unexpected largess.

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  • After that I spent many happy hours in my tree of paradise, thinking fair thoughts and dreaming bright dreams.

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  • When they were growing, I used to hoe from five o'clock in the morning till noon, and commonly spent the rest of the day about other affairs.

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  • Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired, I have returned to the woods, and, partly with a view to the next day's dinner, spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to time, the creaking note of some unknown bird close at hand.

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  • But suddenly the dimples ceased, for they were produced by the perch, which the noise of my oars had seared into the depths, and I saw their schools dimly disappearing; so I spent a dry afternoon after all.

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  • I weathered some merry snow-storms, and spent some cheerful winter evenings by my fireside, while the snow whirled wildly without, and even the hooting of the owl was hushed.

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  • The five minutes spent with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour.

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  • The building of a new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow.

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  • Prince Andrew had spent two years continuously in the country.

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  • Prince Andrew spent half his time at Bald Hills with his father and his son, who was still in the care of nurses.

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  • The other half he spent in "Bogucharovo Cloister," as his father called Prince Andrew's estate.

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  • The day after his interview with Count Arakcheev, Prince Andrew spent the evening at Count Kochubey's.

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  • After supper, they all spent their usual evening in the family room.

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  • We spent the balance of our time formulating what I should say to Merrill Cooms and pouring over Internet maps.

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  • He spent every evening tending his farm, as he called it.

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  • His own body told her he was spent.

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  • He watched her go, suspecting he'd missed more than he thought during the few months he spent with Jule in Europe.

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  • Yully spent the drive north learning how to manipulate her father's magics with his patient tips as guidance.

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  • He felt both spent and wired, his head too full of memories to control.

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  • He spent the night deep in thought, forcing himself to face the dark memories he'd tried so hard to bury.

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  • When spent, she lay still, willing sleep or death to take her.

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  • Eventually, she ran out of tears and lay spent on the table, mind on Damian.

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  • He'd spent the morning vomiting blood and was able to remember Jule and Dusty by afternoon.

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  • She sat down on her couch, recalling the nights she spent watching television after work.

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  • What if the silly, innocent, clueless little girl you spent years lying to actually had something that you need to leave here?

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  • The knowledge made her want to scream, knowing she'd spent years blindly letting him talk to her like this and encourage her with pretty words, while he ensured the tumor in her head killed her.

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  • Darkyn spent much of his lifetime in battle, she noted.

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  • She'd spent five days with him, silently fighting him, only to realize there was nowhere else to go.

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  • The pair spent the balance of the morning emptying the washing machine and dryer, only to fill them with never-ending loads, while in between clearing dishes, brewing more coffee, and playing the jovial innkeepers.

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  • We spent the entire morning in a lawyer's office.

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  • He spent the whole evening trying to save my soul.

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  • I spent so much time on the phone talking to the Calvias she wouldn't have gotten through, Cynthia said the next morning, after breakfast was cleared, the wash loaded, and domestic matters reasonably settled—a momentary break.

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  • I'd hate to think we spent that awful morning with no results.

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  • The group left the Jeep and spent more than an hour on foot with Cynthia taking infinite care with each of her photos.

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  • It wasn't a new sight—he'd spent far too many years as a police officer not to have seen it, uncounted but never forgotten times.

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  • Fred patted him on the back and apologized on behalf of his friends who spent the afternoon in the court house attending Fred's jury session.

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  • Finally, he doubled back and spent the return trip simply enjoying the country road.

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  • Time was when this area's families spent their lives here, from birth to death with the soil providing their sustenance and the earth the riches, at least for a few.

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  • Reminded of Pumpkin Green, he wondered where the young hiker had spent the cool night.

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  • Dean retreated to their quarters to handle some overdue paper work and so spent the remainder of the morning.

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  • The time and chat, spent interspersed with interrupting chores, was long overdue.

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  • They spent the evening in their private quarters mulling over the possibilities and skirting the question that Lydia had actually killed her boss, which in spite of mounting concern, Dean continued to find unlikely.

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  • There was a question of jurisdictions and when Weller volunteered that Martha was safe and comfortable at Bird Song where she'd spent the last six months, no one seemed to protest.

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  • In the underworld where she spent almost her entire life, there were two suns and two moons.

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  • She spent a minute thinking over how she'd seen human-Deidre buy things.

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  • Her Gabriel, who spent his life a part of the shadows, radiated the quiet power of a deity that reached her from across the room.

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  • Her concentration was on the clothes, and he tried not to smile as she spent a minute petting a sweater.

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  • He needed the reminder of the good in the world, because he saw none of it from the shadows where he spent his life.

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  • I visited dear Tamer and spent most of the day with him and his records.

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  • I would've spent every day with you, if you hadn't done what you did.

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  • The Deidre he spent the night with and the Deidre who went to see Darkyn four days ago were very different.

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  • It was worse than the morning after he slept with human-Deidre and awoke to discover whom he spent the night with.

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  • Just when he thought things were going well and they spent the night making love and talking, he woke up in a new nightmare.

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  • His gaze lingered on human-Deidre, and he was troubled by the memories of the time they spent together.

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  • Maybe it was the years he spent as a salesman.

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  • Still, they had spent so much money on it and needed to start getting something back.

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  • After all, he spent much time here, making love to her on the round bed down the hallway to his left.

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  • Lost to him already, Deidre sank into his world, not caring if it was the last night of her life, if she spent it with him.

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  • I spent thousands of years and broke the Code twice.

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  • He was a little resentful of the time she spent with the other boys.

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  • We spent time in the underworld together, though if you're human, that might mean … Katie drifted off then glanced at the children.

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  • She spent a grueling hour putting up the string of red lights in the kitchen and stepped back to admire her work.

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  • She'd spent several hours in his office talking to a dead man?

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  • He spent most of his time anymore in the shadow world, except when forced out by Death or called out by someone who wanted to buy an assassination.

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  • She'd been seen by a doctor who'd been dead twenty years, was babysitting a four-hundred-thousand-year-old angel, and the grim reaper spent the night on her couch.

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  • He faced Sasha, recalling the years they'd spent together.

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  • She'd like to think she was saving poor souls every day she spent with him donating her blood, but she couldn't help thinking she really wouldn't care what he did to get blood if she was gone.

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  • He wasn't ready to be dead-dead yet, not after all the time he'd spent in Hell and all the unfinished business he had.

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  • Who spent the last million years in Hell, thanks to Kris.

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  • Her body was still exhausted from Kris's attack and a day spent with Hannah and her friends.

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  • Her face felt hot as she recalled the one night they.d spent together.

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  • He.d only spent one night there last month before Sasha flung him to the side in favor of a demoness.

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  • She.d spent the day in thought after her talk with Gabriel, and there was only one solution that might drive Rhyn away before she and Gabriel hurt him.

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  • He took in his predatory brothers, well aware they were as dangerous as any of the creatures he.d spent time in Hell with.

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  • Having spent many afternoons with him in the lab, she knew he kept only serums and instruments in the refrigerator.

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  • He.d spent many wonderful nights in the now crispy bed.

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  • They.d spent the hour in the conference room without fighting or threatening to kill each other.

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  • Evelyn only cooked when he spent the night, which would also explain how she ended up in her bed.

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  • The newlyweds spent the night at a local luxury hotel-- also an arrangement made by Kiera-- and she was left alone in the row house full of boxes.

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  • Having spent enough time on the ship to understand the odd society, she knew better than to charge in and handle what he would consider his duty.

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  • She spent the night waiting for the nightmare world to end and dressed the next morning with an undertaker's solemnity.

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  • A'Ran watched her off and on during the several days she spent alone.

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  • You've not spent even a moment with her, and you complain of her behavior?

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  • Having spent most of his years in battle, he understood when a traditional approach would not work with an unusual opponent.

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  • He spent a few hours setting up the explosive mechanisms and issuing new battle plans for the space war and ordered his ground troops to evacuate the planet.

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  • The town of Ouray, while only a century and a quarter old, was rich in history and Fred O'Connor, together with a cadre of widows with similar interests, spent many hours reading Ouray's old newspapers and written accounts.

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  • Dean spent much time clinging to the sideboards until his wife, with a heart full of charity and an arm about his waist, supported him in slow glides around the oval.

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  • The balance of the afternoon was spent on household chores and packing away the last remnants of the holiday.

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  • During the week before Christmas, Martha had spent an overnight at Bird Song when Janet was forced to report to court in Grand Junction, on some charges she, thankfully, did not detail to the Deans.

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  • Little time was spent on the snow.

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  • You recouped all the money you spent buying these things in the first place.

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  • Dean spent much of the trip speculating on the reason for the law man's visit.

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  • She spent the day in her room, in Annie's dress.

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  • Effie explained effusively how she and her sister had spent the day resurrecting their long lost great-aunt, whom Dean wondered if they were about to dub Saint Annie.

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  • Miss Worthington spent the day waiting on Claire and showing her and her sister the old newspapers on microfilm at the library.

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  • Sheriff Weller spent half the night here.

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  • I've grown to think kindly of her these last weeks as I've spent much time in her company, though mostly she sleeps and our talk is only of trifles.

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  • Dean spent the balance of the afternoon doing bookkeeping for the lodging establishment.

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  • Dean spent the next hour nursing two beers and telephoned again, still without success.

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  • Dean spent the afternoon busying himself with the chores of Bird Song, partially out of guilt for having dumped the morning duties on Fred and in part to take his mind off the ever-present feeling he'd caused long term or, heaven forbid, permanent damage to his seven-month marriage.

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  • It seemed to Dean she'd spent her life on the outside, in some respects by choice, somehow driven from one social plane down to another, much lower, until there was nothing left but death.

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  • Fred picked up a pair of children's cross country skies from an ad in the paper and the group spent a number of after school afternoons on Red Mountain utilizing the free trails at Ironton.

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  • I spent two weeks of hell thinking I was a big part of why Edith died!

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  • Sarah and Jackson spent the night becoming acquainted as well as discussing plans for escape.

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  • They spent four days deep in the forest.

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  • You just spent upwards of nine-thousand dollars on suits and you don't want to try them on?

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  • The human had spent most of the evening pacing around the cell, trying to make some sense of everything, stopping only briefly to eat, in an effort to soak up all the alcohol.

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  • The full moon had always been a time that Sarah and Jackson spent together.

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  • The two spent the next hour playfully enjoying each other.

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  • The couple spent most of the day quiet, holding each other, staying connected.

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  • Sarah had asked Elisabeth to help with pies, so they spent the better part of the day in the kitchen.

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  • Did Elisabeth tell you we spent the last full moon together?

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  • Deborah spent most of dinner staring blatantly at Jackson, vying for his attention whenever possible.

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  • Jackson and Elisabeth spent many evenings outdoors lying on the frigid ground, stargazing, pointing out the constellations, and anticipating the occasional falling star.

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  • But every dime spent on the house meant that much less she could invest in the dairy - and the dairy was the one thing that stood a chance of stimulating her anemic savings account.

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  • Had Alex spent the night in the barn, or had it snowed this much in a few hours?

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  • Normally the animals were her first concern, but if Alex had spent the night in the barn, he needed the warmth a good hot meal could offer.

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  • He spent last night in that chair.

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  • He'd spent the last few hours with Lori.

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  • They spent the next fifteen minutes exploring the inside of the mill, and then they went out to the bridge.

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  • I wouldn't have spent years grooming you for this type of event if I didn't believe in you.

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  • General Greene has spent too long at war overseas to know where Ohio is.

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  • Computers hummed, the sound enough to lull Lana to sleep nearly every shift she spent alone in the vault despite the sleep replacement supplements—known as anti-sleepers—she took.

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  • He spent an hour on a punching bag before joining a few others sparring.

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  • He spent too much time overseas.

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  • He'd spent days fighting to reach the Peak with the first one, and Lana had nearly gone off a cliff for another one.

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  • Every moment he spent with her, he felt like he was getting farther and farther away from his ability to walk away without either of them getting hurt.

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  • She knew when he lied; she'd spent twenty years with him.

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  • Of course, she'd spent the last twenty years in the competitive upper-class circles, learning how to keep out of the way of those who would use her to get to Mr. Tim.

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  • I spent the day at the medical facility.

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  • We've spent millennia arguing.

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  • He'd spent his life relatively alone, crossing between the underworld and human world as needed.  Death had been far from co-dependent, and he'd had free rein.  Until two days ago, when he crossed into the underworld with Katie slung across his shoulder.  He'd forgotten what it was to have someone completely dependent on him.

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  • After all, it was where he and Katie spent the few good moments they'd had, where he'd found something worth living for.

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  • Rhyn listened to his brother pad away in the soft sand.  He'd spent thousands of years in Hell wishing to be dead-dead.  Tomorrow, he'd have his chance.

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  • I know you spent most of your life in the same place I did, Hell.

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  • Rhyn moved to the door leading to the block, unable to help the small tremble of his hand.  Not only had he spent too long in this very place, he'd seen Katie hurt here and barely escaped alive with her.

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  • You've spent too much time with Death.  When did you learn to think?

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  • Even if Lilith wasn't meant to be his mate, she didn't deserve such a brutal death.  She didn't deserve death at all.  Instead of mourning a son, Kris could've spent the past few thousand years raising a successor.

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  • And no regrets about what I did, though the few days I've spent here make me wonder if there was an easier way.

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  • The feeling is mutual.  You're the reason I spent so much time in Hell.

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  • She answered without pause and then spent long seconds looking down at her coffee, as if searching for words to clarify her statement.

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  • Billie and Willie were journeymen criminals, and both had spent time in jail for a number of offenses, mostly physical in nature.

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  • Dean spent the remainder of the work­day sorting reports and more closely reviewing the Byrne papers.

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  • Never mind he spent three years constantly riding the bench, hoping against hope for a miracle, as he practiced, cheered and hustled with unbridled enthusiasm.

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  • I spent two years on the bench and never played a down until the last game of my jun­ior year.

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  • I spent my last coins calling you!

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  • Instead, he spent a half-hour in her driveway, discussing the Norfolk trip and the search for her miss­ing husband.

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  • He had spent his career in the city, the last seven months investigating the crime family as a part of a special task force.

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  • After a late lunch on the run, Dean spent most of the after­noon interviewing a burglary victim only three blocks from his Collingswood Avenue home.

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  • Three more telephone calls to Cece Baldwin were as unsuc­cessful as the first and Dean spent the rest of the evening poring over the Byrne file.

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  • Jeffrey Byrne spent Tuesday and Wednesday in early March in Scranton.

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  • You go out with the local World Wide guy and have pizza and beer—lots of beer, considering what he spent.

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  • He spent little time on Bascomb Place himself.

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  • The ghost of Jeffrey Byrne, who had spent his final hours in the same dining room, was nowhere in evidence.

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  • There wasn't much left to Saturday but the time was spent lounging around, munching on Chinese takeout and drinking Coors beer.

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  • Fred was being consoled by Mrs. Abernathy or some other of his lady friends so Dean spent the evening alone with the sound of a little early Nat King Cole trio, vintage forties.

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  • He silently chastised himself for even caring that some guy named Cleary had spent a few weeks in Scranton and now was traveling off in the sunset in a blue-white-or-lavender motor home.

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  • Dean spent the evening alone, drinking too much beer.

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  • His note pad was ever present and he spent a considerable amount of time on the phone.

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  • Paperwork kept Dean chained to his desk until after lunch and he spent the afternoon pacing the courthouse corridor until plea-bargained to freedom shortly before five.

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  • I spent 20 minutes on the phone with Mrs. Glass.

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  • He had spent extra time wording the young woman's remarks.

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  • Fred spent most of Sunday in his room either read­ing or playing with his notes until Dean had enticed him out by the smell of two steaks slapped on the outside grill.

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  • Dean spent the balance of Friday wading through paperwork, a chore made more depressing than usual because yesterday's driz­zle had given birth to a storybook spring day.

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  • The flight out on Friday night had been a comfortable few hours spent at thirty-odd thousand feet, sandwiched between a cloud-covered countryside and a starlit sky.

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  • After I checked out the list I spent the afternoon at a rest stop squinting at a couple of a thou­sand bikers' numbers trying to spot him, but no luck.

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  • Surprisingly, many of the speedier bikers were already there, looking as if they'd spent the day loafing in the late spring sun.

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  • Dean spent a pocket full of coins before he found the one housing the person for whom he was searching.

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  • And I spent a lot of time wondering why there weren't any fingerprints on a gun that had just been used by a guy not wearing gloves.

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  • Jeffrey Byrne spent very little time there—far too few hours to accomplish all of that business.

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  • In fact, Carmen had spent so much time in the Reynolds kitchen growing up that neighbors began to think she belonged there.

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  • Considering what happened to him before – with his fiancé leaving him after he spent all that money...

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  • Apparently Alex had spent a good deal of that time talking to Lori about another woman.

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  • I'll be sorry tomorrow, and I don't ever want to be sorry about time I spent with you.

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  • He spent most of the day guarding the goats.

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  • Everyone simply assumed we were going to be married because we spent so much time together.

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  • He loved animals, but he spent his entire life scraping to make ends meet.

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  • You'd be sorry the morning after – and so would I. Maybe we wouldn't be sorry for the night we spent together, or what we did, but we'd be sorry we didn't have the strength of character to wait.

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  • The next few hours were spent getting ready.

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  • Only a person who had spent many of them alone would realize how special it was to have a partner next to them.

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  • But then, Alex had spent a lot of nights alone.

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  • Renovating the old house wasn't a necessity, and if Alex wanted money spent on it, he would likely initiate it on his own.

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  • No. The problem is that I've spent so much time with the babies that I hurt Alex.

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  • She and Alex spent a lot of time on that window seat, admiring their combined efforts and property.

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  • And then, there was the magic room upstairs, where she had spent many hours playing as a child — and many hours dreaming as a teen.

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  • They spent the rest of the day lounging around the house and making up for lost time.

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  • She had spent her life alone; she had plenty of practice.

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  • They disagreed, and sometimes they even spent a few days not talking to each other, but they always worked things out.

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  • Yesterday was the first day we've spent together since you mated with her months ago.

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  • Call me naïve, but I spent most of my life around bad people who deserved what came to them.

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  • You've spent your time since the Schism forgetting, only now you can't.

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  • He began to understand her reluctance to be involved with him and how thick the walls around her heart were, if she spent the years since the Schism learning how to shut people and emotion out.

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  • Memories of a time spent in a black hell while his mate helped the Black God keep him enslaved.

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  • I spent fifteen years underground.

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  • She spent an eternity in her mind, watching four of the men fall dead to the wooden floor at the hands of the demon.

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  • She'd spent the time after her doze bleeding herself.

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  • Her own thoughts had strayed to the man who spent enough time in Memon's armies to know the madman's strategies.

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  • Taran spent the night on the wall, fighting with the men who had treated him like a brother for a kingdom he wanted but would never have.

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  • Taran had spent half his life in this place with nothing but darkness and Jame, his friend.

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  • He had spent years encouraging her to become involved with the rest of the world.

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  • You've spent your entire life there.

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  • His complexion was dark for a blonde man, as if he spent a lot of time outside.

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  • So now you're saying I shouldn't have spent the money on new clothes?

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  • I'm from Arizona, but I've spent the last three summers within 5 miles of this place.

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  • I have been taking care of the children and this house for years – not to mention the time I've spent taking care of you!.

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  • Maybe it would help if they spent a little time alone.

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  • It was a solemn affair and they spent most of the afternoon talking to people she had never met.

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  • The climate in the south at this time of the year was probably hot, but surely it couldn't hold a candle to the week she had spent in the desert.

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  • I spent three years smelling that stuff against my will.

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  • His boss was over two-thousand miles away and, while he wouldn't be too happy about Keaton spending the night with her, he would certainly approve of any hours spent watching over her.

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  • Have you already forgotten the night we spent together?

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  • It was where he was birthed and spent only a few weeks before his mother was cast out.

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  • She spent twenty years healing him.

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  • If you spent less time manipulating me and more time teaching me, I might!

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  • Jonny snapped, referring to the time Xander spent training the Black God to do his job.

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  • In the time Xander spent with the kid, Jonny never killed a girl under eighteen, and never a brunette.

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  • Xander spent another moment in pensive silence before he rose.

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  • After the months he spent making sure no one killed the new Black God before Jonny found his footing, Xander began to think he might've …forgotten something.

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  • He spent most of the night up with the woman in his bed then fell asleep after he fed from her, content and sated, as usual.

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  • Xander spent the afternoon with Toni and then made the journey he didn't want to.

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  • She'd spent the night tossing and turning, trying to figure out what to do.

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  • I spent the week with a vampire.

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  • They both spent weeks with the Black God, after the teenage godslayer took out the former Black God and took his place.

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  • You might have to leave that safe corner where you've spent your life.

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  • Jessi's thoughts flew to the night she spent with him.

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  • All she had to do was trust him Monday, and she would've spent the week with him, instead of two nights.

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  • The latter part of his life was spent at Heraclea.

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  • As he was intended for the legal profession, he spent some years in attendance on the law classes.

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  • He sought refuge in Naples, but soon he left that city and spent over two years in an Italian mountain monastery.

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  • His early years were spent in the performance of such labour as fell to the lot of every farmer's son in the new states, and in the acquisition of such education as could be had in the district schools held for a few weeks each winter.

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  • At odd hours of lessons she picked up a smattering of Latin, music and natural science, but most days were holidays and spent in country rambles and games with village children.

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  • Her nights were spent in writing, which seemed in her case a relaxation from the real business of the day, playing with her grandchildren, gardening, conversing with her visitors - it might be Balzac or Dumas, or Octave Feuillet or Matthew Arnold - or writing long letters to Sainte-Beuve and Flaubert.

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  • The beds remain in bearing for six or eight months, and then the spent manure is taken to the surface again for garden and field purposes.

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  • From 1448 to 1450 £3336 or some £i oo,000 of our money was spent on the church, of which Waynflete with the marquis of Suffolk and the bishop of Salisbury contributed £700 or £21,000.

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  • On the breaking out of the Dutch War in 1664 he was made treasurer of the prizes, being accountable to the king alone for all sums received or spent.

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  • He spent two years from 1886 to 1888 in travelling, and visited Riga Polytechnic and the universities of Wiirzburg, Graz, Amsterdam and Leipzig.

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  • The time thus spent seems to have been on the whole happy, even allowing for warm discussions with the mathematicians and metaphysicians of France, and for harassing controversies in the Netherlands.

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  • He was educated at the Ecole Normale, and returned thither as director of studies in 1838, after some years spent in provincial schoolmasterships.

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  • But he could hardly be said seriously to have oppressed the subject cities, and technically all the League money was spent on League business, for Athena, to whom the chief monuments in Athens were reared, was the patron goddess of the League.

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  • His youth, spent at the Neapolitan court, was far from blameless, and it is not certain that he was married to the mother of his numerous family.

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  • He afterwards went for the same purpose to Cornwall, where he spent a year.

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  • The winter (332-331) which Alexander spent in Egypt saw two memorable actions on his part.

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  • In the year 597 (being then, probably, not far from thirty years of age) he was carried off to Babylonia by Nebuchadrezzar with King Jehoiachin and a large body of nobles, military men and artisans, and there, it would seem, he spent the rest of his life.

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  • Every evening extracts from his great works, the Canon and the Sanatio, were dictated and explained to his pupils; among whom, when the lesson was over, he spent the rest of the night in festive enjoyment with a band of singers and players.

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  • The remaining ten or twelve years of Avicenna's life were spent in the service of Abu Ya`far 'Ala Addaula, whom he accompanied as physician and general literary and scientific adviser, even in his numerous campaigns.

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  • Here the unrecorded years of Christ's boyhood were spent.

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  • The proposed order of subjects was entirely altered in view of the Colenso case, for which urgency was claimed; and most of the time was spent in discussing it.

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  • He spent much of his time in practising magic, and it was believed that he had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him.

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  • Jowett was thus led to concentrate his attention on theology, and in the summers of 1845 and 1846, spent in Germany with Stanley, he became an eager student of German criticism and speculation.

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  • Uriburu was neither a politician nor a statesman, but had spent the greater portion of his life abroad in the diplomatic service.

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  • After some time spent in travel and a successful lecturing tour in Norway and Sweden, he settled in Copenhagen, and produced a series of novels and collections of short stories, which placed him in the front rank of Scandinavian novelists.

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  • Previously French had gone to Florence, Italy, where he spent a year with Thomas Ball.

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  • The last years of his life were spent principally at Gratz, where he held a local command in the Austrian army.

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  • After his accession to the throne William spent some time at the court of the English king, Henry II.; then, quarrelling with Henry, he arranged in 1168 the first definite treaty of alliance between France and Scotland, and with Louis VII.

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  • Ten years were spent in this operation, a full account of which was published by Bouguer in 17 4 9, Figure de la terre determinee.

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  • The greater part of his life was spent at Venice and Milan, where he held a professorship and continued to teach until his death.

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  • He is said to have spent more than £ 70,000 in the course of the following twelve years (1798-1810).

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  • Till middle life he was also lieutenant-general in Aragon for his brother and predecessor Alphonso V., whose reign was mainly spent in Italy.

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  • In conflict with these the last years of King John were spent.

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  • They spent little on drink or with the storekeepers, and were, therefore, by no means popular.

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  • While young Rousseau went to Rome, where he spent some years in painting the ancient ruins, together with the surrounding landscapes.

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  • He spent the latter part of his life in London, where he died in 1693.

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  • His first years were spent in Italy, where his father was occupied with his consular duties.

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  • During the last few years of his life Boole was constantly engaged in extending his researches with the object of producing a second edition of his Differential Equations much more complete than the first edition; and part of his last vacation was spent in the libraries of the Royal Society and the British Museum.

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  • His boyhood was spent at Munich where his father, who owned electro-technical works, settled in the early 'eighties.

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  • After returning to private life, Seward spent two years and a half in travel and died at Auburn on the 10th of October 1872.

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  • At an early age he entered the cloister; and in 423 he became bishop of Cyrrhus, a small city in a wild district between Antioch and the Euphrates, where, except for a short period of exile, he spent the remainder of his life.

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  • His youth was spent at Bristol.

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  • In 1813-14 Rich spent some time in Europe, and on his return to Bagdad devoted himself to the study of the geography of Asia Minor, and collected much information in Syrian and Chaldaean convents concerning the Yezidis.

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  • All his time was spent in preaching, confessing, visiting the sick, relieving the poor.

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  • The next three years he spent at Trier, which he chiefly made his headquarters, organizing the defence of the Rhine frontier, and personally superintending the construction of numerous forts.

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  • If he was hard and exacting in the matter of taxes, he spent them in the defence and improvement of his dominions, not in idle show or luxury.

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  • As to cost, one transatlantic cable repair cost 75,000; the repair of the Aden-Bombay cable, broken in a depth of 1900 fathoms, was effected with the expenditure of 176 miles of new cable, and after a lapse of 251 days, 103 being spent in actual work, which for the remainder of the time was interrupted by the monsoon; a repair of the Lisbon-Porthcurnow cable, broken in the Bay of Biscay in 2700 fathoms, eleven years after the cable was laid, took 215 days, with an expenditure of 300 miles of cable.

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  • During the following three years the government spent £s00,000 in making good the depreciation suffered by the plant in the transition years of 1868 and 1869, for which allowance had been made in the purchase price, and about £1,700,000 was expended on new plant.

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  • He spent a year in prison at Perugia, and when peace was made at the end of 1202 he returned to Assisi and recommenced his old life.

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  • The next three years he spent in the neighbourhood of Assisi in abject poverty and want, ministering to the lepers and the outcasts of society.

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  • Frequently half his nights were spent in reading, after the labour of his most strenuous days.

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  • Of this sum 260,000 was spent for religious purposes.

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  • Part of these sums is given to hospitals, and part spent directly by the communal and provincial authorities.

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  • Of the sum spent by the provincial authorities, over half goes to lunatic asylums and over a quarter to the maintenance of foundling hospitals.

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  • By this law, every man liable and accepted for service served for eight or nine years on the Active Army and its Reserve (of which three to five were spent with the colors), four or, five in the Mobile Militia, and the rest of the service period of nineteen years in the Territorial Militia.

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  • The annual surpluses are largely accounted for by the heavy taxation on almost everything imported into the country, i and by the monopolies on tobacco and on salt; and are as a rule spent, and well spent, in other ways.

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  • The intervening years had been spent by the Lombards, not irs consolidating their union, but in attempting to secure special privileges for their several cities.

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  • Parma revolted from him, and he spent months in 1247-1248 vainly trying to reduce this one time faithful city.

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  • It is clear that at this time the fury of the civil wars was spent.

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  • He subsequently spent a long, suspicious, secret and incomprehensible career in the attempt to piece together Gian Galeazzos Lombard state, and to carry out his schemes of Italian conquest.

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  • He was resentful of the time his father spent with his brother.

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  • Locke had spent some years in Holland, the country of Grotius, who, with help from other great lawyers, and under a misapprehension as to the meaning of the Roman jus gentium, shaped modern concepts of international law by an appeal to law of nature.

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  • In Christian theology, much labour has been spent upon vindicating man's freedom against God's intrusion, or upon blotting out human power in order to leave room for the divine.

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  • He also spent some time in the Foreign Office in Berlin.

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  • In 1879 he founded the Aachener Geschichtsverein, and having spent his concluding years at Bonn and at Aix-la-Chapelle, he died in the latter city on the 27th of April 1887.

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  • According to Bede she took the veil in 614, when Oswio was king of Northumbria and Aidan bishop of Lindisfarne, and spent a year in East Anglia, where her sister Hereswith had married ZEthelhere, who was to succeed his brother Anna, the reigning king.

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  • Passing from pride to humility he added "servant of the apostle," and "servant of Jesus Christ" to the imperial title, spent a fortnight in prayer in the grotto of St Clement and did penance in various Italian monasteries.

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  • Saints Ambrose and Augustine both spent days in deciding temporal causes.

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  • Her father (the Congregational minister of the town) and her mother were both descended from members of the company that, under John Davenport, founded New Haven in 1638; and the community in which she spent her childhood was one of the most intellectual in New England.

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  • After the close of the war for the Union Mrs Stowe bought an estate in Florida, chiefly in hope of restoring the health of her son, Captain Frederick Beecher Stowe, who had been wounded in the war, and in this southern home she spent many winters.

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  • Indeed, the bulk of the reign of Aurelius was spent in efforts to ward off the attacks of the barbarians.

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  • In 1788 Lieutenant Bligh of the "Bounty" spent some time at Tahiti, to which island the historical interest now passes.

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  • He resigned this post in 1820, upon the death of his wife, to whom he was fondly attached, and, though making some efforts to connect himself with journalism, spent the years immediately succeeding in idleness, residing for the most part in Paris.

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  • In 1846 Wakefield, exhausted with labour, was struck down by apoplexy, and spent more than a year in complete retirement, writing during his gradual recovery his Art of Colonization.

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  • He spent the rest of his life in retirement, dying at Wellington on the 16th of May 1862.

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  • He conformed to the Church of England and spent a vast sum in restoring Arundel Castle.

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  • The death of Hussain put a stop to this expedition, but Baber spent a year at Herat, enjoying the pleasures of that capital.

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  • The remaining years of his life he spent in arranging the affairs and revenues of his new empire and in improving his capital, Agra.

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  • After nine years spent at Laleham he was induced to offer himself as a candidate for the vacant head-mastership of Rugby; and though he entered somewhat late upon the contest, and though none of the electors was personally known to him, he was elected in December 1827.

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  • He was born at Toledo, spent most of his life in travel, wandering even to England and to the East, and died in 1167.

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  • Much of his life was spent in controversy, not only with Christians (in 1293 before the king of Aragon), but also with his own people and on the views of the time.

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  • He went to Rome after the termination of the civil wars, and spent twenty-two years in studying the Latin language and literature and preparing materials for his history.

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  • The latter position he held for nearly forty-five years, with the exception of a short time spent at the university of Leiden, where his health was affected by the Dutch climate.

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  • He studied law for three years in South Carolina, and then spent two years abroad, studying French and Italian in Paris and jurisprudence at Edinburgh.

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  • His boyhood was spent in Rome during the reign of Odoacer.

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  • He spent some time in Sennar in 1772, and in his Travels has left an interesting account of the kingdom in its decadence.

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  • Towards the end of the reign of lEthelberht, who died about 616, Radwald of East Anglia, who had apparently spent some time at the court of Kent, began to win for himself the chief position among the Anglo-Saxon kings of his day.

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  • The millions of roubles of redemption money received from the crown have been spent without any real or lasting agricultural improvements having been affected.

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  • This naturally caused profound disappointment and dissatisfaction in the liberal section of the educated classes and especially among the young officers of the regiments which had spent some years in western Europe.

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  • San Francisco spent more in new permanent structures than Philadelphia, and Seattle spent more than Pittsburg.

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  • As some months must elapse before they could sail for Palestine, Ignatius determined that the time should be spent partly in hospital work at Venice and later in the journey to Rome.

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  • He spent five months in Goa, and then turned his attention to the "Fishery Coast," where he had heard that the Paravas, a tribe engaged in the pearl fishery, had relapsed into heathenism after having professed Christianity.

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  • The following six years were spent in comparative quiet, broken, however, by a visit to Rome in 1565; but in 1570 Granvella, at the call of Philip, resumed public life by accepting another mission to Rome.

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  • He was born in Ispahan, but spent his youth and made his early studies in Bagdad.

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  • His later life was spent in various parts of the Moslem world, in Aleppo with Saif-ud-Daula (to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs), in Rai with the Buyid vizier Ibn `Abbad and elsewhere.

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  • His early life was spent at Croydon, but it is not certain whether he was educated at Oxford or Cambridge.

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  • From the numerous incidental references in his works, and from his knowledge of European literature, it may be inferred that he spent some time abroad.

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  • Having made a fortune by teaching and lecturing in Chalcedon he spent the rest of his life chiefly at Athens, where he died.

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  • I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life."

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  • The first two years after his return to England he spent principally at his father's country seat at Buriton, in Hampshire, only nine months being given to the metropolis.

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  • He complains of the busy idleness in which his time was spent; but, considering the circumstances, so adverse to study, one is rather surprised that the military student should have done so much, than that he did so little; and never probably before were so many hours of literary study spent in a tent.

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  • From France he proceeded to Switzerland, and spent nearly a year at Lausanne, where many old friendships and studies were resumed, and new ones begun.

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  • Meanwhile public events were developing in a manner that had a considerable influence upon the manner in which the remaining years of the historian's life were spent.

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  • He arrived in England in the following June, and spent the summer at Sheffield Place, where his presence was even more highly prized than it had ever before been.

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  • He left Paris after the coup d'etat of 1851 and spent nine years in England.

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  • Provence about 360, but he spent the early part of his life in the monastery of Bethlehem with his friend Germanus, and his affinities were always Eastern rather than Western.

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  • After working under Leopold Gmelin at Heidelberg, and Liebig at Giessen, he spent three years in Paris studying the higher mathematics under Comte.

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  • His boyhood was spent with a grandmother in Middletown, Connecticut; and prior to his entering college he had read widely in English literature and history, had surpassed most boys in the extent of his Greek and Latin work, and had studied several modern languages.

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  • He graduated at Harvard in 1863, continuing to study languages and philosophy with zeal; spent two years in the Harvard law school, and opened an office in Boston; but soon devoted the greater portion of his time to writing for periodicals.

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  • The popular novelist and historian, Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848), spent most of his life here, and a bronze statue has been erected to his memory.

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  • In Herat, where he spent the greater part of his life, he gained the favour of that famous patron of letters, Mir `Alishir (1440-1501), who served his old schoolfellow, the reigning sultan Husain (who as the last of the Timurides in Persia ascended the throne of Herat in 1468), first as keeper of the seal, afterwards as governor of Jurjan.

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  • Entering at Cambridge in 1850, he spent a term or two at Peterhouse, but afterwards migrated to Trinity.

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  • He spent much of his early life at the court of Charles I., and became a Protestant.

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  • He spent ten or twelve years in study, chiefly theological, at Palencia, and then, about 1195, he was ordained and became a canon in the cathedral chapter of Osma, his native diocese.

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  • These last years of his life were spent in journeying backwards and forwards between Toulouse and Rome, where his abode was at the basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine, given to him by the pope; and then in extended journeys all over Italy, and to Paris, and into Spain, establishing friaries and organizing the order wherever he went.

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  • During the disturbances of 1848, Francis Joseph spent some time in Italy, where, under Radetzky, at the battle of St Lucia, he had his first experience of warfare.

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  • On the arrival of Timoleon he was compelled to surrender and retire to Corinth (343), where he spent the rest of his days in poverty (Diodorus Siculus xvi.; Plutarch, Timoleon).

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  • Tiberius, who spent the last ten years of his life at Capri, built no fewer than twelve villas there; to these the great majority of the numerous and considerable ancient remains on the island belong.

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  • Charlotte Walpole (c. 1785-1836), an English actress who married in 1779 Sir Edward Atkyns, and spent most of her life in France.

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  • He was the youngest of eight sons,' and spent his youth in an occupation which the Hebrews as well as the Arabs seem to have held in low esteem.

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  • Pursuing the foes, he inflicted upon them a signal chastisement and took a great booty, part of which he spent in politic gifts to the leading men of the towns in the south country.'

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  • His life was mainly spent in fighting the Welsh and in Normandy, and he died on the 27th of July 1101.

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  • His last days were spent in a cave in the parish of Sorn, near his birthplace, and there he died in 1686, worn out by hardship and privation.

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  • It contains a monument to William Cowper, who came to live here in 1796, and the Congregational chapel stands on the site of the house where the poet spent his last days.

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  • At the age of fourteen he was permitted by Scotch law to name his own curators, or guardians, and selecting William Pitt and Dundas for this office he spent much of his time at their houses, thus meeting many of the leading politicians of the day.

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  • He also spent some time in Greece, and on his return to England founded the Athenian Society, membership of which was confined to those who had travelled in that country.

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  • Commercial glycerin is mostly obtained from the "spent lyes" of the soap-maker.

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  • In the van Ruymbeke process the spent lyes are allowed to settle, and then treated with "persulphate of iron," the exact composition of which is a trade secret, but it is possibly a mixture of ferric and ferrous sulphates.

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  • He served in the Franco-German War, was involved in the Commune, and spent eleven years in England as a political exile.

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  • The months he spent at Berlin were important in the history of Prussia, for while he was there Frederick the Great died.

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  • After a short period of study in Paris on the French Revolution, he spent some time working in the archives of Baden and Bavaria, and published in 1845 Die Geschichte der rheinischen Pfalz, which won for him a professorship extraordinarius at Heidelberg.

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  • His latter years were spent at Ditchingham, Norfolk, where he died Oct.

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  • His life was mainly spent in this religious house.

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  • In 1790 he conducted the military operations on the Dniester and held his court at Jassy with more than Asiatic pomp. In 1791 he returned to St Petersburg where, along with his friend Bezborodko (q.v.), he made vain efforts to overthrow the new favourite, Zubov, and in four months spent 850,000 roubles in banquets and entertainments, a sum subsequently reimbursed to him from the treasury.

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  • Lovering is first mentioned as master in 1619, so that Taylor probably spent seven years at the school before he was entered at Gonville and Caius College as a sizar in 1626, 1 eighteen months after Milton had entered Christ's, and while George Herbert was public orator and Edmund Waller and Thomas Fuller were undergraduates of the university.

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  • Taylor did not vacate his fellowship at Cambridge before 1636, but he spent, apparently, much of his time in London, for Laud desired that his "mighty parts should be afforded better opportunities of study and improvement than a course of constant preaching would allow of."

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  • He seems, however, to have spent little time there.

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  • Paulus was educated in the seminary at Tubingen, was three years master in a German school, and then spent two years in travelling through England, Germany, Holland and France.

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  • He at once retired to la Roche-Gtiyon, the château of the duchesse d'Enville, returning shortly to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life in scientific and literary studies, being made vice-president of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belleslettres in 1777.

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  • His father, who was a wealthy man and possessed at any rate a smattering of Greek, Latin and French, was thought to have demeaned himself by marrying the daughter of an Andover tradesman, who afterwards retired to a country house near Reading, where young Jeremy spent many happy days.

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  • He spent his time in making chemical experiments and in speculating upon legal abuses, rather than in reading Coke upon Littleton and the Reports.

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  • These features of Bentham's character are illustrated in the graphic account given by the American minister, Richard Rush, of an evening spent at his London house in the summer of the year 1818.

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  • A dispute with the archbishop compelled him to leave Rouen, and after a short stay in Rome he returned to Paris to the college of the Jesuits, where he spent the rest of his life.

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  • The rest of his life was spent in peaceful obscurity as cardinal-bishop of Porto and legate of the mark of Ancona.

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  • After having spent forty years in a cave at the foot of mount Sinai, he became abbot of the monastery.

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  • Through the commission the, money previously spent upon Queen's Plates is offered in the form of " King's Premiums " (to the number of twenty-eight in 1907) of L1 so each for thoroughbred stallions, on condition that each stallion winning a premium shall serve not less than fifty half-bred mares, if required.

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  • The county councils also expend sums varying at their own discretion on instruction in dairy-work, poultry-keeping, farriery and veterinary science, horticulture, agricultural experiments, agricultural lectures at various centres, scholarships at, and grants to, agricultural colleges and schools; the whole amount in 1904-1905 reaching £87,472.1 The sum spent by individual counties varies considerably.

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  • In 1904-1905 Lancashire (£8510), Kent (£5922) and Cheshire (£4310) spent most in this direction.

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  • From his earliest days he spent much time in his father's study and habitually accompanied him on his walks in North London.

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  • So great was the shock that for the rest of his life he spent most of his time at a villa at St Veran, near Avignon, returning to his Blackheath residence only for a short period in each year.

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  • He spent lavishly on public buildings at home and in the older centres of Hellenism, like Athens.

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  • His last years were chiefly spent at the castle of Cardross on the Clyde, which he acquired in 1326, and the conduct of war, as well as the negotiations for peace, had been left to the young leaders, Moray and Sir James Douglas, whose training was one of Bruce's services to his country.

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  • He was educated at Sorau and Dresden and at the university of Leipzig, in which city he spent the rest of his life.

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  • Languages he disliked, but he spent much of his spare time in reading history, especially Plutarch.

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  • After gaining a further extension of leave of absence from his regiment he returned to Ajaccio and spent six months more in the midst of family and political affairs.

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  • During the week which he spent there, Bonaparte displayed marvellous energy in endowing the city with modern institutions; he even arranged the course of studies to be followed in the university.

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  • Military affairs in this period are dealt with under Napoleonic Campaigns; but it may be noted here that during the anxious days which Napoleon spent at the camp of Boulogne in the second and third weeks of August 1805, uncertain whether to risk all in an attack on England in case Villeneuve should arrive, or to turn the Grand Army against Austria, the only step which he took to avert a continental war was the despatch of General Duroc to Berlin to offer Hanover to Prussia on consideration of her framing a close alliance with France.

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  • Napoleon's habit of clinging to his own preconceptions never received so strange and disastrous an illustration as it did during the month spent at Moscow.

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  • There he spent eleven months in uneasy retirement, watching with close interest the course of events in France.

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  • Before these negotiations began, Adams had spent some time in the Netherlands.

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  • Benjamin Franklin, who was born and spent his boyhood in Boston, left boo() to the city in his will; it amounted in 1905 to $403,000, and constituted a fund to be used for the good of the labouring class of the city.

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  • He was a man of great wealth, which he spent in beautifying Rome.

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  • The traditional studies of the place, however, disgusted him; and he spent seven years wandering through all the schools of Italy and France and collecting a precious library.

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  • In 1828 he at last crossed the Alps, and the next three years were spent in Italy.

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  • The acquisition of Aleppo could only make that supreme object more readily attainable; and so Saladin had spent his time in acquiring Aleppo, but only in order that he might ultimately "attain the goal of his desires, and set the mosque of Asha free, to which Allah once led in the night his servant Mahomet."

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  • The capture of Damietta was a considerable feat of arms, but nothing was done to clinch the advantage which had been won, and the whole of the year 1220 was spent by the crusaders in Damietta, partly in consolidating their immediate position, and partly in waiting for the arrival of Frederick II., who had promised to appear in 1221.

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  • Resolute in recognizing erudition as the chief concern of man, he sighed over the folly of popes and princes, who spent their time in wars and ecclesiastical disputes when they might have been more profitably employed in reviving the lost learning of antiquity.

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  • His declining days were spent in the discharge of his honourable Florentine office and in the composition of his history.

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  • After studying at Tubingen and Erlangen, he taught chemistry and physics, first at Keilhau, Thuringia, and then at Epsom, England, but most of his life was spent at Basel, where he undertook the duties of the chair of chemistry and physics in 1828 and was appointed full professor in 1835.

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  • He spent the next five years at Rome, but at the age of fifteen he returned to his native place and entered upon a military career.

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  • The next year was spent at Rome, and, after a visit to Africa, he set out on his second great journey (September 128).

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  • The remaining years of his life were spent partly in the capital, partly in his villa at Tibur.

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  • It was his misfortune that nearly all his life was spent in opposition, and he had no opportunity of showing his abilities as an administrator.

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  • Roads were laid out, some of which yet remain; and in the last three years of English occupation the government spent $580,000 on the two provinces.

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  • Bourne, who worked at his trade more or less all through life, spent his last ten years in advocating the temperance cause; he died in October 1852.

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  • Suppose that a pure soap without resin is to be made - a product little seen in the market - the spent lye is run off, steam is again turned on, pure water or very weak lye run in, and the contents boiled up till the whole is thin, close and clear.

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  • The spent lye of the washing being drained off, the soap is now " boiled for strength."

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  • His early years were spent in alternate pleasure and military service.

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  • Later he spent some time in the schools of London, which enjoyed at that time a high reputation, and finally studied theology at Paris.

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  • The monumental work of James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, who spent three years at Athens (1751-1754), marked an epoch in the progress of Athenian topography and is still indispensable to its study, owing to the demolition of ancient buildings which began about the middle of the 18th century.

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  • His whole time was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince Vasili's house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and his beautiful daughter Helene.

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  • When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her about the old prince and criticized him.

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  • He spent the greater part of his time away from home, at dinners, parties, and balls.

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  • How have you spent it?

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  • The civil and religious contracts took place at Paris early in April, and during the honeymoon, spent at the palace of Compiegne, the emperor showed the greatest regard for his wife.

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  • Seven hours a day he spent on his knees in prayer and three times a day he scourged his emaciated body.

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  • During their absence, from the 21st of April 1527 to the 1st of June, he remained in prison, and was then set free with a prohibition against instructing others until he had spent four years in study.

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  • He spent his youth in the merchant service, and obtained his first distinction in naval warfare by the capture of the island of Lerins from the Spaniards in May 1637.

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  • He spent the autumn at Venice, and was well enough on Christmas Eve to conduct his early symphony (composed in 1833) at a private performance given at the Liceo Marcello.

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  • There is little doubt that some redundant narratives in the Ring were of earlier conception than the four complete dramas, and that their survival is due partly to Wagner's natural affection for work on which he had spent pains, and partly to a dim notion that (like Browning's method in The Ring and the Book) they might serve to reveal the story afresh in the light of each character.

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  • Out of his long life of eighty years, sixty were spent amid its lakes and mountains, first as a schoolboy at Hawkshead, and afterwards as a resident at Grasmere (1799-1813) and Rydal Mount (1813-1850).

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  • De Quincey spent the greater part of the years 1809 to 1828 at Grasmere, in the first cottage which Wordsworth had inhabited.

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  • Ambleside, or its environs, was also the place of residence of Dr Arnold (of Rugby), who spent there the vacations of the last ten years of his life; and of Harriet Martineau, who built herself a house there in 1845.

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  • Adhemar's life was mainly spent in writing and transcribing chronicles, and his principal work is a history entitled Chronicon Aquitanicum et Francicum or Historia Francorum.

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  • The next ten years were spent in France, where he was connected with Georges de la Tremoille, and afterwards entered the household of Pierre de Breze, at that time seneschal of Poitou, by whom he was employed on missions to the duke of Burgundy, in an attempt to establish better relations between Charles VII.

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  • The original drawings for this map had to be done with exceptional neatness, the draughtsman spending twelve months on that which he would have completed in four months had it been intended to engrave the map on copper; yet an average chart, measuring 530 by 630 mm., which would have taken two years and nine months for drawing and engraving, was completed in less than fifteen months - fifty days of which were spent in " retouching " the copper plate.

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  • Much money was spent on public works and the restoration and beautifying of Rome - a new forum, the splendid temple of Peace, the public baths and the vast Colosseum being begun under Vespasian.

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  • Occasionally summoned to English parliaments, he spent most of his forty years of activity in Ireland, where he was the greatest noble of his day, usually fighting the natives or his Anglo-Norman rivals.

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  • There he became fellow in 1818, and after some time spent abroad he began to read law in London in the following year.

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  • In January 1846, at the request of the magistrates and people of Perugia, he was appointed bishop of that city with the rank of archbishop; but before returning to Italy he spent February in London, and March and April in Paris.

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  • Wesley spent some time during the summer of 1738 in visiting the Moravian settlement at Herrnhuth and returned to London on September 16, 1738, with his faith greatly strengthened.

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  • The gay remembrance of a life well spent.

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  • From that time I have spent the whole of my life within that monastery devoting all my pains to the study of the scriptures; and amid the observance of monastic discipline, and the daily charge of singing in the church, it has ever been my delight to learn or teach or write.

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  • Very little was spent on sanitation, roads, other public works and education.

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  • The former year naturally felt the effect of this, and the tithes which should have been encashed in the last months of the year were discounted and spent several months in advance.

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  • The Prussian headquarters, however, spent the 12th and 13th in idle discussion, whilst the troop commanders exerted themselves to obtain some alleviation for the suffering of their starving men.

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  • The remainder of the day, so far as family life is concerned, is spent in the serdab, a cellar sunk somewhat below the level of the courtyard, damp from frequent wettings, with its half windows covered with hurdles thatched with camel thorn and kept dripping with water.

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  • But other parts were spent in travelling about, chiefly in the south of France.

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  • She spent the summer at the chateau with a brilliant company; in the autumn she journeyed to Italy accompanied by Schlegel and Sismondi, and there gathered the materials of her most famous work, Corinne.

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  • She returned in the summer of 1805, and spent nearly a year in writing Corinne; in 1806 she broke the decree of exile and lived for a time undisturbed near Paris.

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  • She journeyed slowly through Russia and Finland to Sweden, making some stay at St Petersburg, spent the winter in Stockholm, and-then set out for England.

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  • Here he spent nearly the whole of his life teaching and writing, and took no part in the theological movements of his time.

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  • He spent his life and devoted himself in Basra chiefly to the study of polite literature.

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  • His family was from Rome, and in that city he spent his youth.

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  • Out of the payment five-sixths are given to the sellers, and onesixth devoted to the Greenlanders' public fund, spent in " public works," in charity, and on other unforeseen contingencies.

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  • In 982 the Norwegian Eric the Red sailed from Iceland to find the land which GunnbjOrn had seen, and he spent three years on its south-western coasts exploring the country.

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  • His active life, however, was mainly spent in Ireland, whither he took some troops to assist Oliver early in 1650, and he was one of the Irish representatives in the Little, or Nominated, Parliament of 1653.

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  • Stevenson made no attempt to practice at the bar, and the next years were spent in wanderings in France, Germany and Scotland.

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  • As Mr Colvin has well said, these months in the west of America were spent "under a heavy combined strain of personal anxiety and literary effort."

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  • He spent the summer months in Scotland, writing articles, poems, and above all his first romance, The Sea-Cook, afterwards known as Treasure Island; but he was driven back to Davos in October.

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  • The last four years of his unquiet life were spent at Samoa, in circumstances of such health and vigour as he had never previously enjoyed, and in surroundings singularly picturesque.

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  • The first known white explorers were Radisson and Groseilliers, who spent the winter of1658-1659among the Sioux in the Mille Lacs region.

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  • He spent more time in Normandy than in England.

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  • Shiloh disappears from history; neither Saul nor even Samuel, whose youth had been spent with it, takes any further thought of it.

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