He could not afford to lose a drop of the precious water, so he spent most of his waking hours along the ditches in his meadows.

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.

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.

The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

She spent her whole life caring for the poor and assisting the most disadvantaged Romans.

He hoped the job would earn him enough money to support his parents, " to make their cares, and burdens less ... and get them free from debt ", though he soon spent most of his earnings on a new suit.

Charlemagne spent most winters between 792 and his death in 814 in Aachen, which became the focus of his court and the political centre of his empire.

In some Roman Catholic countries such as Italy there have been religious influences, especially from missionaries who have spent a long time in the Third World ( the most famous being Alex Zanotelli ).

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

In 1805, aged 67, he retired from the Navy with the rank of Admiral of the Blue, and spent most of the rest of his life at Bath.

For most of the first fifteen years of her life, Beatrix spent summer holidays at Dalguise, an estate on the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland.

After that, Bernard spent most of his time in Italy convincing the Italians to pledge allegiance to Innocent.

In the obituary of Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the highest-ranking member of the Russian imperial family at the time of his death in 2008, it was noted that his family spent most of WWII at Craigowan Lodge.

' He spent a good deal of time with Akhmatova -- who in those years was given a very wide berth by most of the people who knew her.

He was sent back to England to recover, and spent most of 1917 training soldiers.

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

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

The show spent most of its run on NBC's Thursday night " Must See TV " lineup.

He spent most of his life in the small town of Auburn, California, living in a small cabin built by his parents, Fanny and Timeus Smith.

Closser, who spent most of 2004 in Triple-A.

He spent most of his time defending the eastern border against invasions by the aggressive Sassanid Empire under king Shapur II.

He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.

Barnard described the two years he spent in the US as " the most fascinating time in my life.

In 1919, for example, the military had spent more than double the amount budgeted for them, accounting for over 57 percent of all federal expenditures.

He and his brother Cliff ( Clifford Thomas Holt, born 1910 ) spent their early life in Sydney and attended three different schools in Sydney and Adelaide between 1913 and 1919.

Goebbels spent the winter of 1919 – 20 in Munich, where he witnessed and admired the violent nationalist reaction against the attempted communist revolution in Bavaria.

The Fourth Thule Expedition ( 1919 – 1920 ) was in east Greenland where Rasmussen spent several months collecting ethnographic data near Angmagssalik.

He spent some months in the Royal Army Pay Corps, and then taught at Chigwell School for six months in 1919 before returning to Cambridge.

Having fled Russia from the Crimea in 1919, she spent her remaining years in exile firstly in the United Kingdom with her sister, Queen Alexandra and later in her native Denmark mainly at Villa Hvidore.

Picasso spent each summer from 1919 to 1939 on the Côte d ' Azur, and moved there permanently in 1946, first at Vallauris, then at Mougins, where he spent his last years.

Koch spent rest of the war as a POW and returned to Germany in 1919.

The area's seedy origins date back to the early concentration of saloons in pre-Canadian Prohibition ( 1915 – 1919 ) and its popularity with loggers, miners and fishermen whose work was seasonal and who spent their salaries in the area's cheap accommodations and public houses.

The family then moved to Birmingham until May 1919 and then spent several years in various locations in Sussex.

Other sources for foreign income included the spin-off from money spent at the American army, navy, and air bases on the Philippines, such as the naval base at Subic Bay and Clark Air Base ( with U. S. Army airplanes there as early as 1919 ), both on the island of Luzon.

He spent three years in the trenches in France, being Mentioned in Despatches in 1917 and receiving the Belgian Order of Leopold in 1919.

He spent World War I on anti-malaria duties in Iraq and in 1919 returned again to India as Director of the Central Research Institute at Kasauli in the foothills of the Himalays.

His time spent in Africa, farming with his brother William near Gilgil in British East Africa ( now in Kenya ) from 1914 to 1919.

At the end of 1919, the Commission had spent £ 7, 500, and this figure rose to £ 250, 000 in 1920 as construction of cemeteries and memorials increased.

Rutherford served on the Loan Advisory Committee of the Soldier Settlement Board after the war, was President of the Alberta Historical Society ( which had been created by his government ) from 1919 until his death, was elected President of the McGill University Alumni Association of Alberta in 1922, and spent the last years of his life as honorary president of the Canadian Authors Association.

Returning as Chief of the Air Staff under Winston Churchill in 1919, Trenchard spent the following decade securing the future of the Royal Air Force.

The team passed largely unremarked through the following years, it reached the tier-one Kreisliga Saar in 1919, the Kreisliga Pfalz in 1920 and the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in 1931 and spent the rest of the 30's bouncing up and down between the Bezirksliga and the upper level Gauliga Südwest, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich.

He spent the remainder of the war in various POW camps in New Zealand before being repatriated to Germany in 1919.

He spent the winter semester 1910 / 11 at the University of Göttingen, then he was an assistant at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule Brünn ( Brno ), and from 1912 to 1919 at the Technical University of Vienna.

He spent eight years ( 1919 – 1927 ) there, until he married the first of his four wives, Estelle De Wolfe.

Dewey arrived in China in 1919, and spent the following year the lecturing.

In 1964, a Belgian named André Van Lysebeth ( 1919 – 2004 ) spent two months with Jois learning the primary and intermediate asanas of the Ashtanga Yoga system.

In 1919 he was left an annuity of £ 1000 by Andrew Carnegie which left him financially independent and he spent the rest of his life devoted to his interests in books, London history and cricket.