Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

In They Do It with Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is revealed that, in her distant youth, Miss Marple spent time in Europe at a finishing school.

Carrel spent his life promoting spiritualism, though he did not embrace the Catholicism of his youth.

Abd ar-Rahman spent his youth in his mother's harem.

His youth was spent in Tuscany, at Vienna and in the Austrian Netherlands, where he began his career of military service in the war of the French Revolution.

Abu al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī was born in Isfahan, Persia, but spent his youth and made his early studies in Baghdad, Iraq.

Domitian's youth and early career were largely spent in the shadow of his brother Titus, who gained military renown during the First Jewish-Roman War.

He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated.

The family eventually settled in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1887, where Runyon spent the rest of his youth.

Testing of the enamel revealed that the individual entombed at Magdeburg had spent time as a youth in the chalky uplands of Wessex.

Bust by Hildo Krop ( 1950 ) at Gouda, where Erasmus spent his youth

While he was born in a section of Mobile referred to as " Down the Bay ," he spent most of his youth in Toulminville.

After school, Harry took a gap year, during which he spent time in Australia, working ( as his father had done in his youth ) on a cattle station and participating in the Young England vs Young Australia Polo Test Match.

Shy in his youth, he spent much of his time at home reading, but from grammar school through college, he played a prominent part in several school newspapers and magazines.

Much of Adams ' youth was spent accompanying his father overseas.

On the restoration of order in the Land of Israel, Usha became the seat of the academy and Judah spent his youth there.

Landis spent much of his youth in Indiana ; he left school at fifteen and worked in a series of positions in that state.

After the war, the rest of the family moved to Trondheim, Norway, where Ullman spent the rest of her youth.

Philip II spent much of his youth as a hostage at Thebes, where he studied under the renowned general Epaminondas, whose reforms were the basis for the phalanx.

Today, some have wrongly attributed the legend of Nai Khanomtom to King Naresuan, who spent his youth as a royal hostage in Burma while Ayutthaya was a Burmese vassal.

He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farmhand into the 1920s.

Sanger was the sixth of eleven children, and spent much of her youth assisting with household chores and caring for her younger siblings.

Paavo Lipponen spent his childhood and youth in Kuopio.

Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.

In his reminiscence of 1873 Israel Jefferson, former slave at Monticello, recalled a conversation Lafayette had when visiting Thomas Jefferson in 1824, " Lafayette remarked that he thought that the slaves ought to be free ; that no man could rightly hold ownership of his brother man ; that he gave his best services to and spent his money on behalf of the Americans freely because he felt that they were fighting for a great and noble principle-the freedom of mankind ; that instead of all being free a portion were held in bondage ( which seemed to grieve his noble heart ); that it would be mutually beneficial to masters and slaves if the latter were educated, and so on.

He then spent several years off the coast of West Africa as part of the flotilla engaged in the suppression of the slave trade.

He spent most of his time managing the family's extensive land and slave holdings in North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Heinrich Barth, a German scholar who spent several years in northern Nigeria in the 1850s, estimated the percentage of slaves in Kano to be at least 50 %, most of whom lived in slave villages.

Westmoreland spent three and a half years uncovering the story of the slave jail.

He spent much of his early existence in Egypt, initially as a temple slave, but eventually began travelling the world shortly before the start of the Christian Era.

However, the ordeal of her death, and many months spent as a brainwashed slave, routinely abused by Faust, left her much colder and ruthless than before, making her even less merciful than her husband, and prepared to wipe out all life on Earth.

He was captured by Barbary pirates and spent 25 years as a slave in North Africa before being ransomed back to England.

Hudson was taken to North Africa as a slave, where he spent perhaps his next 25 years labouring.

He was tortured repeatedly, which is how he became deformed, spent years as a slave, or wandering, learnt how to be a conjurer, and when he was getting old, he longed to come back to England.

Penryn was the home of Thomas Pellow ( born circa 1704 ) who spent 23 years as a white slave in Morocco.

The wealthy had a slave who worked as a cook and spent nearly all his or her time in the kitchen.

The last ruler of the Shang dynasty, King Zhou of Shang ( 16th-11th century BC ) was a tyrannical and debauched slave owner who spent his days carousing with his favourite concubine Daji and mercilessly executing or punishing upright officials and all others who objected to his ways.

It may also be based on Alfred's later having accompanied his father on a pilgrimage to Rome where he spent some time at the court of Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, around 854 – 855.

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

This time he went to Rome, and spent seven years there before returning to Alexandria.

Catullus appears to have spent most of his young adult years in Rome.

In order to appease the people of Rome an estimated 135 million sestertii was spent on donatives, or congiaria, throughout Domitian's reign.

From 1952, Copleston spent some of his teaching time at the Gregorian University in Rome, continuing to lecture at Heythrop until it joined the University of London system in 1970, whereupon he became the College Principal.

The architect James Gibbs was a transitional figure, many of his buildings having a hint of Baroque, reflecting the time he spent in Rome in the early 18th century.

He seems to have spent two years there, then left, and the next three ( 382 – 385 ) he was in Rome again, attached to Pope Damasus I and the leading Roman Christians.

He spent most of his time outside Rome, on the frontier, or dealing with administrative and local affairs in the provinces.

Zahir Shah lived in exile in Italy for twenty-nine years in a modest four-bedroom villa in the affluent community of Olgiata on Via Cassia, north of the city of Rome where he spent his time playing golf and chess, as well as tending to his garden.

Writing in 409, Jerome remarked, " A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical correspondence, and writing his answers to the questions referred to him by the councils of the east and west ..." If " east and west " do not betray the passage as an interpolation, Jerome spent three years ( 382 – 385 ) in Rome in close intercourse with Pope Damasus and the leading Christians.

Giovanni Battista's early years were spent at the Neapolitan court, and subsequently he went to Padua and Rome for his education.

In vain did Philip argue that his plans had been drawn up with the consent of Rome, that his expedition was in support of papal authority which he only undertook on the understanding that he would gain a Plenary Indulgence, or that he had spent a fortune preparing for the expedition.

In 1554, at age twenty-two, Anguissola traveled to Rome, where she spent her time sketching various scenes and people.

Alma-Tadema and his wife spent their honeymoon in Florence, Rome, Naples and Pompeii.

The Lateran obelisk was shipped to Rome soon afterwards, but the other one then spent a generation lying at the docks due to the difficulty involved in attempting to ship it to Constantinople.

His 3-year-old half-sister, Galla Placidia, is send to Rome where she spent her childhood in the household of Stilicho and his wife Serena.

During the reign of Roman emperor Domitian after having spent time imprisoned in Rome, John was sentenced to be boiled in oil at the Colosseum.

Kelly and Mogambo co-star Ava Gardner enjoyed a break in the production schedule to journey to Rome and supposedly spent time there " brothel-hopping.

After those attempts on his life, Commodus spent much of his time outside Rome, mostly on the family estates at Lanuvium.

Williams spent the spring and summer of 1948 in Rome in the company of a teenaged Italian boy to whom he provided financial assistance for several years afterward ( a situation which planted the seed of Williams ' first novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ).

Immense sums, however, were spent upon public works, in carrying through the comprehensive planning that had come to fruition during his retirement, bringing water to the waterless hills in the Acqua Felice, feeding twenty-seven new fountains ; laying out new arteries in Rome, which connected the great basilicas, even setting his engineer-architect Domenico Fontana to replan the Colosseum as a silk-spinning factory housing its workers.

Although very little is known about Menelaus's life, it is supposed that he lived in Rome, where he probably moved after having spent his youth in Alexandria.