Spared

Examples

• When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It can seldom happen that much can be spared from the circulating money of the country; because in that there can seldom be much redundancy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• SHE cannot be spared. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Your Lordship might have spared that taunt; I do not, dare not love her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If you know it already, as surely you must, I may be spared. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Prentiss and Hurlbut were ordered to send forward every man that could be spared. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Have I no claim to be spared the insult of your asking me what you have done? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I neither wish to spare myself nor to be spared. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Well, that's not so bad, considering your nerves had to be spared. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If he had spared her that she could have drowned quietly, welcoming the dark flood as it submerged her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I have had my eye on her several times since you withdrew yours; and I have had the honour of witnessing a little spectacle which you were spared. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But Reuben pleaded for his life, and they spared it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I spared you, at the time, she said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You are a great deal too necessary at Hartfield to be spared to Abbey-Mill. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I would have spared you the degradation, but we must hear them from your own lips before we part, and you know why. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The more of this fund that is given to the church, the less, it is evident, can be spared to the state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We must fly this very minute, and trust to Providence to be spared until the arrival of the yacht. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He was there--so Fanny spared nothing, she spent VERY freely. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You might have spared yourself the trouble of delivering that tirade, answered Georgiana. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I wish that I could have spared you this pain, said Lydgate, deeply touched, yet wondering about her marriage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not to mention bearers, all the money that could be spared were wanted for my mother. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Paul that morning handled them: he spared nothing--neither their minds, morals, mannersnor personal appearance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She _was_ very kind, indeed, and I am glad to have her spared. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• We could have spared a--hum--gondola for that purpose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I'm sure it's my wish you should be spared. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But later many captives were spared to be slaves because they had exceptional gifts or peculiar arts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At a fork in the road he left things to his mule, which spared the Moor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Greater precaution than this cannot be imagined, illustrating as it does, that no effort has been spared to protect the lives of the operators. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I was spared the disgrace of appearing publicly as a criminal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Editor: Rhoda