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.

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

In 1906 he joined the newly-formed Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in New York where he spent the rest of his career.

He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral.

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.

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

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.

Watterson spent much of his career trying to change the climate of newspaper comics.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

Bo Diddley spent many years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978 while continuing his musical career.

Beginning in 1834, he spent his scholarly career at the University of Leipzig where he was mainly influenced by JGB Winer, and he began to take special interest in New Testament criticism.

Cyril of Jerusalem spent his religious career as a rebel who upheld what he believed to be right.

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.

Nerva was old and childless, and had spent much of his career out of the public light, prompting both ancient and modern authors to speculate on his involvement in Domitian's assassination.

The son of a career naval officer, Donaldson spent his early childhood in different seaport cities in the eastern United States and in Germany.

Edgar G. Ulmer spent almost his entire Hollywood career working at B studios — once in a while on projects that achieved intermediate status ; for the most part, on unmistakable Bs.

He played as a sweeper and spent his entire career with Serie A club AC Milan.

He is also one of the few players who spent his entire career at one club, AC Milan, for whom he played 719 games, scoring 33 goals.

After teaching briefly in a Berlin girls ' school, Cantor took up a position at the University of Halle, where he spent his entire career.

Banks had a short career in management with Alliance Premier League side Telford United, he spent the 1979 – 80 season before being sacked after losing to a cup match against a team lower down the table.

He joined Stoke City in 1972 where he spent three years before finishing his Football League career with West Bromwich Albion.

He spent most of his career in the city.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

Major architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell, author of the influential book Vitruvius Britannicus ; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé William Kent ; Isaac Ware ; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England.

He spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of Turin.