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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.
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.
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.
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.

spent and England
A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.
He was sent back to England to recover, and spent most of 1917 training soldiers.
He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.
Neil Finn ( vocals, guitar, piano ) and drummer Paul Hester ( ex-The Cheks, Deckchairs Overboard ) were former members of New Zealand band Split Enz, which spent part of 1975-6 in Australia and several years in England.
His family's second home was in a completely different geological and ecological area: he spent much of his childhood at Bartley Lodge in the New Forest, England.
" In this case they showed that the woman in the casket had spent the first years of her life drinking water that came from springs on the chalk hills of southern England.
Having amassed considerable wealth, Yale spent it liberally in England.
Hopkinson spent from May 1766 to August 1767 in England in hopes of becoming commissioner of customs for North America.
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.
Mayhew spent over ten years in Paris returning to England in the 1850s whereby he was involved in several literary adventures, mostly the writing of plays.
He was not popular in England, and spent little time there.
Mary spent the next 18 years in confinement, but proved too dangerous to keep alive, as the Catholic powers in Europe considered her, not Elizabeth, the legitimate ruler of England.
After school, Harry took a gap year, during which he spent time in Australia, working ( as his father had done in his youth ) on a cattle station and participating in the Young England vs Young Australia Polo Test Match.
Despite the setbacks, Gandhi chose to continue studying in England and spent a few months at the Badminton School in Bristol before clearing the Oxford entrance exam in 1937.
Following his arrival in England in October 1752, Reynolds spent three months in Devon, before establishing himself in London, where he would remain for the rest of his life.
The remainder of Abbadie's life was spent in writing and preaching, and in the performance — not too sedulous, for he was frequently absent from his benefice — of the ordinary duties of his office, varied by visits to England and to Holland, where most of his books were printed.
After Yale, Jaynes spent several years in England working as an actor and playwright.
John spent much of 1205 securing England against a potential French invasion.
In September 1797, Coleridge lived in Stowey in the south west of England and spent much of his time walking through the nearby Quantock Hills with his fellow poet William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy ; ( His route today is memorialized as the " Coleridge Way ".
Philip spent most of his time abroad, while his wife remained in England, leaving her depressed at his absence and undermined by their inability to have children.
* 1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo spent much of his life in England where he initiated the famous phrenological publishing house, L. N Fowler & Co., and gained considerable fame with his phrenology head ( a china head showing the phrenological faculties ), which has become a symbol of the discipline.

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