This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.

Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Mrs. Coolidge spent more time in her bedroom among her doll collection.

He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

The applicant pays the rest of the cost, but his own time spent on the work and charges for the use of equipment which he owns may be applied toward his share of the cost.

However, as much time as possible should be spent within the shelter to hold radiation exposure to a minimum.

The cleaner air means less time spent pushing a vacuum, fewer trips to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing machine.

but they all hastened to add that certainly less time was needed on it than presently spent.

( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.

More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.

Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..

She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.

-- A Houston teacher, now serving in the Legislature, proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods ''.

His spare time is spent in soaring gliders.

They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.

Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.

S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

The President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone.

Doubleday spent much of his time writing.

During his career he also spent time writing works for opera houses in Venice, Rome, and Paris.

He spent his final years repairing all the damage done during the earlier years of violence, dissent, and exile, and returning to his writing and preaching undisturbed.

He spent a year in concentration camps, surviving the experience and writing several books.

He spent the rest of his life in France, composing most of his plays in French and writing his memoirs in that language.

He spent much time shopping and walking near the seafront but despite Derleth's badgering, resisted the writing of more fiction.

As he had spent most of his savings during his four years there while writing A Treatise of Human Nature, he resolved " to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvements of my talents in literature ".

He spent his days at workshops, mastering manufacturing processes, and his nights writing what he had learned during the day.

After some ten years of development, which Zamenhof spent translating literature into Esperanto as well as writing original prose and verse, the first book of Esperanto grammar was published in Warsaw in July 1887.

Allen spent much of the summer of 1774 writing a " pamphlet " entitled A Brief Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of New York Relative to Their Obtaining the Jurisdiction of that Large District of Land to the Westward of the Connecticut River.

Paul Erdős ( 1913 – 1996 ) was an influential and itinerant mathematician, who spent a large portion of his later life living out of a suitcase and writing papers with those of his colleagues willing to give him room and board.

Madero spent the bulk of 1908 writing a book at the directions of the spirits, which now included the spirit of Benito Juárez himself.

In his much later years, he spent time writing short stories and songs, along with playing guitar.

Mayhew spent over ten years in Paris returning to England in the 1850s whereby he was involved in several literary adventures, mostly the writing of plays.

Melville spent years writing a 16, 000-line epic poem, Clarel, inspired by his earlier trip to the Holy Land.

Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

The remainder of Abbadie's life was spent in writing and preaching, and in the performance — not too sedulous, for he was frequently absent from his benefice — of the ordinary duties of his office, varied by visits to England and to Holland, where most of his books were printed.

Back on Guam, Hubbard spent much of his time writing dozens of short stories and essays and failed the Naval Academy entrance examination.

Giorgio Vasari, who argued that historical progress in art reached its peak in Michelangelo, emphasized Alberti's scholarly achievements, not his artistic talents: " He spent his time finding out about the world and studying the proportions of antiquities ; but above all, following his natural genius, he concentrated on writing rather than on applied work.

Time is also spent on word games, writing letters, or searching for books in the library.