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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.

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The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.
Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Mrs. Coolidge spent more time in her bedroom among her doll collection.
He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.
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.
These biographical analogies are obvious, and far too much time has been spent speculating on their possible implications.
The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.
This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.
He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.
The applicant pays the rest of the cost, but his own time spent on the work and charges for the use of equipment which he owns may be applied toward his share of the cost.
However, as much time as possible should be spent within the shelter to hold radiation exposure to a minimum.
The cleaner air means less time spent pushing a vacuum, fewer trips to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing machine.
but they all hastened to add that certainly less time was needed on it than presently spent.
( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.
More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.
Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..
She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.
-- A Houston teacher, now serving in the Legislature, proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods ''.
His spare time is spent in soaring gliders.
They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.

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