I remember spending such a season in one of the Oberland valleys, high up above the pine-trees, in a little châlet.
Nor was he less careless about vulgar fame, spending far more pains in the invention of machinery and the discovery of laws, than in their publication to the world.
But these series are specially addressed to members of the Glad Brigades and Spending Companies, which were common in the great mercantile cities of mediæval Italy.
He was dressed in the somewhat degage Sabbath attire affected by Englishmen spending the week-end in the country, and his feet were perched upon the seat opposite to him.
One ought to live and enjoy oneself, but they're afraid of spending an extra farthing.
And he is spendinghis second summer in this stinking little town because he would rather be first in a village than second in a town.
You are afraid to see him spending his early years doing nothing.
Instead of spending their time doing gymnastic exercises or playing group games the children are making a town.
But these schools have done much by showing a good business management, by spending the taxpayers’ money in an economical way so as to give the younger generation the largest possible facilities for spending their time profitably.
I once knew of a boy who after much reading of Robinson Crusoe, started for the woods at five o'clock of a summer afternoon, with the full intention of spending the night there alone.
Fancy my spending weeks shut up sermonizing, and then forsaking that sort of work, and taking to visiting; and then staying both employments and falling to reading.
Instead of spending ten or twelve years in forming unholy habits, which it will require as many more to outgrow, it may begin from its earliest consciousness to form holy ones.
Is it true that even in London society men are wholly given up to dining, and paying visits, and making and spending money?
As for the lithographers, sign-painters, and beginners, they were spending their evenings somewhere else than in the old room under the shaded gas-jets.
Now Prince Ratibor was still spending his life in wandering about the woods, and not even the beauty of the spring could soothe his grief.
But he never thought of spending the money on himself, because he was content to pass the rest of his days as he had been doing for ever so long, and he really had no desire for any greater comfort or luxury.
It might be (though practically it never is) as advantageous for the nation that the robber should have the spending of the money he extorts, as that the person robbed should have spent it.
He gave her toys, lap-dogs, and a pony, and never allowed a day to pass while he was at Fairmile without spending some portion of it in the little girl's society.
As the years went by, she had retired more and more within herself, spending her days in the solitude of that little wainscoted parlour which she had chosen for her retreat on her first coming to Fairmile.
She was always as proud as Lucifer, and I suppose she is prouder now she has the spending of Topsparkle's money.
There are many who have a genius for making money, but few who possess the noble art of spending it.
The family were still spending the winter in Althorp, and he joined in all the pastimes by which they whiled away the short days and cheered the long nights.
The boy began to cry bitterly, and acknowledged his error in spending his earnings for confectionery.
Off they raced, the dog spending himself in fury, the marten keeping under the thorny brush where his enemy could not follow, then across open snow where the dog gained, then into the pine woods where the trail ended on the snow.
Soon he was treated as one of the children of the family, spending in the house not only the greater part of his days, but also many nights.
Material force and moral force, all which is sustaining her, will end by failing her, because she is living on provision she has accumulated, is spending it, and has no way of renewing it.
Whilst the one is graduallyspending itself, the other is continually remaking itself.
I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream Through years, through men, through Nature fleet, Through love and thought, through power and dream.
I hear and see the inundation and eternal spending of the stream, in winter and in summer, in men and animals, in passion and thought.
Try to think of Emerson spending a winter going about the Western States reading to miscellaneous audiences essays like those that now make up his later volumes.
Also he remarked upon the folly of a young man spending the bloom of his years among the dissolute natives of the South Seas; and then casually inquired if the women down there were pretty.
After spending three months in one of the convict hulks they were sent out to Sydney in the Breckenbridge transport.
Colonel Lloyd's slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance.
Here, too, appears the delightful literary item that Mark Twain and Charles Egbert Craddock are spending the summer together in their Adirondacks camp.
Could an ambitious student of literature or financial methods get a chance like that by spending twenty minutes in a Carnegie library?
