Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back room and reappear in the spare uniform of the harem.

Because of the unique design by the architect Egils Hermanovski, you can build most of it in your own home workshop in your spare time.

A part-time farmer and his family can use their spare time profitably.

Do not include all your spare time or all your family's spare time -- only what you are willing to use for farm work.

How, he wondered, does one enjoy one's spare time??

We all painted in our spare time, and we had all started as easel painters with scholarships, but he was the only one of us who made any regular money at it.

In his spare time, Grand polishes up his Latin, and he is also writing a book, but he is such a perfectionist that he continually rewrites the first sentence and can get no further.

In his spare time, Linnaeus explored the flora of Skåne, together with students sharing the same interests.

In 1924, Auguste Lumiere recognized the merits of Marinescu's science films: " I've seen your scientific reports about the usage of the cinematograph in studies of nervous illnesses, when I was still receiving " La Semaine Médicale ," but back then I had other concerns, which left me no spare time to begin biological studies.

In her spare time, she organized chain letters from family members into the original Darwin Awards website hosted in her personal account space at Stanford.

She taught for five years at Bickley, Surbiton and Chessington, writing in her spare time.

He spent much of his spare time hunting deer and trecking through the local forests, becoming acquainted with the Singhalese natives and taking a great interest in their Buddhist beliefs.

In his spare time, he was able to study Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac.

Following his father's trade as a carpenter, Harrison built and repaired clocks in his spare time.

In his spare time, he became a prize-winning bicycle racer and played on and managed a baseball team.

Hewitt used much of his spare time in late 2003 to bulk up, gaining 7 kg.

As a teenager, Marvin " spent weekends and spare time hunting deer, puma, wild turkey, and bobwhite in the wilds of the then-uncharted Everglades.

He began work on his father's farm, but continued to read voraciously in his spare time.

By then he was spending most of his spare time learning as much as he could about Linear B, some of his study time being spent under the covers at night with a flashlight.

Tracks in very sandy or exceedingly rocky areas may require high-clearance four wheel drives and spare fuel, tyres, food and water before attempting to travel them, however most outback roads are easily traversed in ordinary vehicles, provided care is taken.

Modern hospitals now have available spare parts to replace a part of the body that is badly damaged by injury or disease.

Nevertheless, mercy is considered preferable in Islam ,, and in Sharia law the victim's family can choose to spare the life of the killer, which is not uncommon.

Snake is lifted to safety, and the explosives are deactivated with seconds to spare.

The film stars May McAvoy as a young woman who is gradually going blind and tries to spare the two men in her life from the burden of her illness.

God responds by showing Jonah that he is " angry at doing good ", and that he too would agree to spare an ephemeral plant if it has importance for him.

They require more combat supplies ( ammunition and especially fuel ) and ordnance supplies ( spare vehicle components ), and a comparatively larger proportion of their manpower is required to crew and maintain the vehicles.

Minimalist compositions are sometimes known as systems music. The term " minimalist " is often applied colloquially to designate anything which is spare or stripped to its essentials.

Heidi again rushes to Bletch for emotional affirmation, but he is unable to spare her the sight of Samantha performing oral sex on him.

However, non-time-critical custom chip access, such as blitter transfers, can use up any spare odd or even cycles and, if the " BLITHOG " ( blitter hog ) flag is set, Agnus can lock out the even cycles from the CPU in deference to the blitter.

In Four Black Dragons various peasants describe the arrival of the American ships with escalating panic, until finally the nightmarish event does seem to be, as claimed, the end of the world .... Someone in a Tree, is a compact Rashomon-and as fine as anything Mr. Sondheim has written ... The single Act II triumph, Bowler Hat, could well be a V. S. Naipaul tale set to music and illustrated with spare Japanese brushstrokes ... Bowler Hat delivers the point of Pacific Overtures so artfully that the rest of Act II seems superfluous.

While one perception is that leisure is just " spare time ", time not consumed by the necessities of living, another holds that leisure is a force that allows individuals to consider and reflect on the values and realities that are missed in the activities of daily life, thus being an essential element of personal development and civilization.

The most notable dish of this type of cooking is " sweet and sour spare ribs " ().

Samuel is also treated by the Classical Rabbis as a much more sympathetic character than he appears at face value in the Bible ; his annual circuit is explained as being due to his wish to spare people the task of having to journey to him ; Samuel is said to have been very rich, taking his entire household with him on the circuit so that he didn't need to impose himself on anyone's hospitality ; when Saul fell out of God's favour, Samuel is described as having grieved copiously and having prematurely aged.

Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.

" Antonioni's films tend to have spare plots and dialogue, and much of the screen time is spent lingering on certain settings, such as the seven-minute continuous take in The Passenger, or the scene in L ' Eclisse in which Monica Vitti stares curiously at electrical posts accompanied by ambient sounds of wires clanking.

In Uppsala, Foucault spent much of his spare time in the university's Carolina Rediviva library, where he made use of their Bibliotheca Walleriana collection of texts on the history of medicine for his ongoing research.

Despite constantly changing schools, Nasser spent most of his spare time reading, particularly in 1933 when his uncle happened to live near the National Library of Egypt.

Lomonosov had been taught to read as a boy by his neighbor Ivan Shubny, and he spent every spare moment with his books.

He spent his spare time sculpting and illustrating and his natural talent lead to him being employed first as draftsman in an architect's office and then as a sports cartoonist for the San Francisco Daily News.

People seem to be content with what they have ; their poverty is not depicted as unbearable, and it does not prevent them from being fervent patriots (" Every man's fust duty is ter get as many children as ' e bloomin ' well can ") or from enjoying their spare time ( which is often spent in pubs ; also Liza drinks a lot ).

The Zoarites then spent several years in the 1820s digging the canal and thus were able to pay off their loans on time with much money to spare.

He was a wood carver for a furniture business in New York, and spent spare time in his basement carveing wooden horses as a hobby.

He spent much of his spare time reading history and was knowledgeable in the jus consuetudinarium of the kingdom, later collected by lawyers like John of Ibelin and Philip of Novara as " the assizes of Jerusalem ".

Morris and his friends spent their spare time hanging out by the Strand under Hermosa Beach pier, where they experimented with drugs: " I'd get off work, and we'd get up to trouble ," he later recalled, " smoking angel dust, snorting elephant tranquilizers.

All his spare time was spent in studying the early Fathers with Du Vergier, and laying plans for a reform of the Church.

At Eton Powell spent much of his spare time at the Studio, where a sympathetic art master encouraged him to develop his talent as a draftsman and his interest in the visual arts.

He spent all the money he could spare on books, including copying classics that were not then in print.

He spent all his spare time in the study of classics, history, metaphysics and political economy and in learning German, French and Italian.

Van der Waals — at that time head of an elementary school — wanted to become a HBS teacher in mathematics and physics and spent two years studying in his spare time for the required examinations.

Fit and spare in his 70s, Spruance spent most of his retirement days wearing old khakis and work shoes and working in his garden and greenhouse.

He still felt a desire to become an artist, and all his spare moments were spent drawing and painting from nature.

By the late 1670s the king spent much of his spare time with Madame de Maintenon, discussing politics, religion and economics.

Brewer spent his spare time contributing to a number of ornithological publications, including John James Audubon's Ornithological Biography.

He spent his spare time studying birds and became an accomplished taxidermist.