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.

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.

To spare the provincial populations from excessive taxation and to save money, emperors began to employ units recruited from Germanic tribes.

Stieltjes originally wrote to Hermite concerning celestial mechanics, but the subject quickly turned to mathematics and he began to devote his spare time to mathematical research.

In 1983, he began organizing the test game in his spare time around his job with the Blitz.

Whilst engaged in writing in his spare time, Garner attempted to gain employment as a teacher, but soon gave that up, believing that " I couldn't write and teach ; the energies were too similar ", and so began working as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.

Some mob members began to argue to spare the lives of certain black persons who they personally knew, then other mob members began arguing for caution, believing the thing had gone too far.

However, a lack of spare parts soon began to ground these aircraft.

In 1887, Smith began research on water sanitation in his spare time, investigating the level of fecal coliform contamination in the Potomac river.

Biology began to interest him more that year, and he studied natural history texts in his spare time.

In 1992, a new medium distance service ( AV Media Distancia operating under the ' AVE Lanzadera ' brand ) began between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Puertollano, using spare class 100 trains.

After he began to teach, Combs continued to play baseball in his spare time.

From 1947 to 1957, the Brothers began working on the weekends, during summers, and in their spare time to build a gymnasium ( the original Marian Hall ), Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Chapel, Adrian Hall ( which was demolished in 2001 ), and a residence for the student Brothers ( the original Fontaine Hall ).

He began to earn his living early, his spare time being given to literary pursuits.

They find themselves back where they began ... recording in their parents ' spare bedroom.

He found it, then lost it himself, then found it again two years later and called her ; she had a spare ticket to go to The Proms, and they began a relationship.

In 1918 he co-founded the Save-the-Redwoods League, which began significant preservation efforts after Merriam traveled the Redwood areas of Humboldt County, California in 1922 seeking to spare its old-growth the effects of logging he witnessed in Redwood forests closer to San Francisco.

In his spare time, Chand began collecting materials from demolition sites around the city.

He also began to spend much of his spare time teaching acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ), feeling that he had experience which might be useful to younger actors.

An avid gamer, Booth began programming his own games on Apple II and Commodore VIC-20 computers while still at school, and started working on Nox " in a spare bedroom of house " in college.

Following his discharge from the armed forces, he worked for five years as an advertising copywriter, and began writing radio play scripts for the BBC in his spare time.

The following year she began working in her spare time from the guild as a copyist for John Ruskin in Dulwich Art Gallery and the National Gallery.

Later, computer manufacturers began to make use of the spare bit to extend the ASCII character set beyond its limited set of English alphabet characters.

She began composing in a spare neoclassical tonal style featuring static harmonies, short distinct melodies in counterpoint, ostinatos, and pedal points varied through mode, tempo, rhythm, metre, and articulation.