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.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

I have previously described how, during the week of the murder, Bridget spent the first few hot days scrubbing and ironing clothes.

The President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

The jury foreman, Mrs. Olive Heideman, of rural Elsie, said that a ballot was not even taken until yesterday morning and that the first day of deliberation was spent in going over the evidence.

The first six to eight weeks are spent in the den with the mother.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

Alfonso spent his first four years in near-constant war with the Muslims.

The group proceeded to Little Andaman Island, where they spent ten days surfing several spots for the first time, including Jarawa Point near Hut Bay and the long right reef point at the southwest tip of the island, named Kumari Point.

Athanasius spent the first years of his patriarchate visiting the churches of his territory, which at that time included all of Egypt and Libya.

The 1971 census was the first census in Botswana to use de facto enumeration ; this method counts people based on how many people spent census night at a specific location.

Watterson, who drew his first cartoon at age eight, spent much time in childhood alone, drawing and cartooning.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.

He spent his first winter using his upside-down boat for shelter, which is reflected in the architecture of the village's Community Centre.

: San Francisco Giants first baseman-outfielder Mark Sweeney, who spent 2003 and 2004 with the Rockies, said, " You wonder if some people are going along with it just to keep their jobs.

Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films.

After completing Low and " Heroes ", Bowie spent much of 1978 on the Isolar II world tour, bringing the music of the first two Berlin Trilogy albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries.

The first members of the party drew heavily from the ranks of family members and defense lawyers of political prisoners as well as intellectuals and artists who had spent time abroad.

After some ten years of development, which Zamenhof spent translating literature into Esperanto as well as writing original prose and verse, the first book of Esperanto grammar was published in Warsaw in July 1887.

Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.