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

" He spent his youth as a slave in Rome to Epaphroditos, a wealthy freedman and secretary to Nero.

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 the course of our talk, Askington mentioned that he spent part of each week studying.

) Not knowing how it had occurred, she spent the next three years studying the Bible, experimenting and praying to discover if the experience was repeatable and if there were knowable laws that governed it.

In classical training, the majority of the instruction for the right hand focuses on the production of bowing tone ; little time is spent studying the varieties of pizzicato tone.

He spent the three years at The Queen's College, Oxford after earning his bachelors as one of the university's first Rhodes Scholars, initially studying jurisprudence ( instead of science as a promise to his dying father ), and later added literature and Spanish, and earning his master's degree.

From the age of seventeen he spent three years in Paris studying law.

degree in geology from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and then spent a year for graduate studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway.

Despite the setbacks, Gandhi chose to continue studying in England and spent a few months at the Badminton School in Bristol before clearing the Oxford entrance exam in 1937.

where he spent two years, studying the Old Masters and acquiring a taste for the " Grand Style ".

Given the repeated failures and frustrations of workers ' revolutions and movements, Marx also sought to understand capitalism, and spent a great deal of time in the reading room of the British Museum studying and reflecting on the works of political economists and on economic data.

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.

When she was not studying, she took independent courses from Ohio University and spent her free time casting bronzes in the school foundry.

Musashi spent many years studying Buddhism and swordsmanship.

Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab spent some time studying with Muslim scholars in Basra ( in southern Iraq ) and it is reported that he traveled to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina to perform Hajj and study with the scholars there.

Atta spent most of his time at home studying, excelling in school.

Margaret Singer, who also spent time studying the political brainwashing of Korean prisoners of war, agreed with this conclusion: in her book Cults in Our Midst she describes six conditions which would create an atmosphere in which thought reform is possible.

Francia, born in 1766, spent his student days studying theology at the College of Monserrat at the National University of Córdoba.

The pair spent little of their first year studying, instead playing guitar and performing with their punk rock combo, the Right Hand Lovers, along with other university friends Kevin Buckland and Dave Cummings.

Maslow spent much of his time studying what he called " self-actualizing persons ", those who are " fulfilling themselves and doing the best they are capable of doing ".

He also spent a lot of time studying famous European paintings he admired, particularly the work of the Dutch artists Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch, and Rembrandt.

He spent a significant amount of time studying the site, going there daily.

* Paul T. Freeman has spent his 39 years studying, learning, and believing in the objectives of Tarnover and Electric Skillet.

Akkad spent a further three years studying for a Master's degree at the University of Southern California ( USC ), where he met the director Sam Peckinpah.

Joseph Constantine Carpue spent 20 years in India studying local plastic surgery methods.

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ( 1748 – 1831 ) spent ten years studying North American birds and wrote the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l ' Amerique septentrionale ( 1807-1808 ?).

She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major, a move that mirrored her role as Reed in the television series Sisters.