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.

Of his adolescent years, a remarkable picture is painted in Heimskringla, which recounts that Eric, aged twelve and seemingly possessed of prodigious valour and strength, embarked on a career of international piracy: four years were spent harrying the Baltic coasts and those of Denmark, Frisia and Germany (' Saxland '); another four years those of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France ; and lastly, Lappland and Bjarmaland ( in what is now northern Russia ).

* Tony Delk, a first round NBA draft pick spent his adolescent years in Brownsville.

He spent most of his adolescent years studying and finished with one of the best averages in his class.

As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels.

* Karl Learmont from the Sydney-Based Industrial Music Duo Angelspit spent many of his adolescent years in Kingaroy.

Originally from Townsville, Queensland he attended Ignatius Park College ( a private Catholic boys high school ) and spent some of his adolescent years competing in Juvenile Eisteddfods.

As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

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.

Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

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

Olmedo and Rivera had been friend since Olmedo was a child and Rivera spent the last two years of his life here.

Turning to a more active life, Albert accompanied Emperor Maximilian I to Italy in 1508, and after his return spent some time in the Kingdom of Hungary.

A half-brother of Ahmed, Yahya, resented his accession to the Ottoman throne in 1603, and spent his life scheming to become Sultan.

After his stint as bishop, he spent the remainder of his life partly in retirement in the various houses of his order, yet often preaching throughout southern Germany.

The city had long been ruled by kings born to the Penthilid clan but, during the poet's life, the Penthilids were a spent force and rival aristocrats and their factions contended with each other for supreme power.

He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and was a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, although he spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the Tragic Pleiad.

Maria's sister, Elizabeth Branwell ( 1776 – 1842 ), moved to the parsonage, initially to nurse her dying sister, but she spent the rest of her life there raising the children.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

* Matthew Jay, the late singer-songwriter, also spent much of his life in the town.

Charles spent the rest of his life in retirement, except for a short time in 1815 when he was military governor of the Fortress Mainz.

Nin was raised a Roman Catholic and spent her childhood and early life in Europe.

His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah ( to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs ), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn ' Abbad, and elsewhere.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

He appears to have spent the rest of his life in Mesopotamia.

Bruno spent much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot John Canaparius may have written a life of Saint Adalbert.

For the remainder of his life he spent time between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.