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.

His spare time is spent in soaring gliders.

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.

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.

In that time, the osobist ( NKVD military counter-intelligence officer ) became a key Red Army figure with the power to condemn to death and to spare the life of any soldier and ( most any ) officer of the unit to which he was attached.

Despite the many things which Marie Antoinette did in her spare time, her primary concern became the health of the Dauphin, which was beginning to fail.

" After 1987 Hu became more reclusive and less active in Chinese politics, studying revolutionary history and practicing his calligraphy in his spare time, and taking long walks for exercise.

He was educated at Marlborough College, and earned a first in architecture at Peterhouse, Cambridge where he became involved in stock theatre companies in his spare time.

A large proportion of equipment became unserviceable for lack of spare parts.

One of these ( written mostly in his spare time ) was the first draft of his Elements of cryptanalysis, which later was expanded to four volumes and became the U. S. Army's cryptographic main textbook and reference.

Cut off from Italy as they were though, problems with lack of fuel, munitions, spare parts and replacements became a serious problem and the Regia Aeronautica was worn down in a war of attrition.

Christy then became the vote everyone wanted on their side, with both the men and women campaigning for her vote, but when she failed to give Rob a straight answer, Rob made a deal with Heidi and Jenna to spare them by voting out Christy.

Caray's style became fodder for pop culture parody as well, including a memorable Saturday Night Live recurring sketch featuring Caray ( played by Will Ferrell ) as a host of a space and astronomy TV talk show, in which his questions to scientists and professors included whether or not they would eat the moon if it were made of spare ribs and turning hot dogs into currency ( 20 hot dogs would equal roughly a nickel, depending on the strength of the yen ).

However, since the Banat region became deserted after this, which alarmed the Ottoman authorities who needed people in this fertile land, the authorities promised to spare everyone who came back.

Since most Imperial Japanese Armory contents were thrown into Tokyo Harbor after the signing of the surrender, spare ammunition also became rare.

In his spare time, he began submitting scripts to the BBC and, when his company was taken over, he accepted redundancy and became a full-time freelance writer.

The music became even more spare and angular, with Wright's bass lines creating a sometimes menacing sound to support Lindsay's scraping, atonal guitar and Mori's irregular rhythms.

During his spare time, Hogan worked out at Hector's Gym in the Tampa Bay area and eventually became strong enough to do big lifting.

On his spare time, he and Leslie worked out in the gym together, and eventually, Beefcake developed a muscular physique ; Hogan was impressed by Beefcake's physical stature and became convinced that the two of them should wrestle together as tag team partners.

A schoolmaster who played chess only in his spare time, he nonetheless became one of the strongest amateur players.

This service network was rebranded and became Service Force which still exists today but is, once again, all operated by independent service companies who repair and supply spare parts for all of the brands.

When handled by well-trained crews, this weapon became the bane of Allied armored units, who frequently attempted to add improvised protection to their tanks, e. g. sandbags, spare track units, logs and so on.

Educated at Repton, whence he proceeded to the University of Aberdeen, he became in 1817 vicar of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, and devoted his spare time to literature and particularly to the study of Anglo-Saxon.

He wanted Canada's fledgling cable operators to carry CHFI on a spare cable channel and the more he studied the cable world, the more he became attracted to the potential for programming choices on cable television.

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

As the existing stock of instruments aged and spare parts became hard to find, more and more were either scrapped or sold.

Henry became interested in natural history at school and continued to spend his spare time studying birds on his journeys.

He repeated the feat in the 1989 Comrades, where he completed the race with only two minutes to spare and at the age of 80 became the oldest man to complete the Comrades.