Spending

Examples

• It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There's a friend of mine, sir, that had the intention of spending the evening with me when I gave you up--much against my will--for the night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Your friend is spending her vacation in travelling, I hear? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was her favorite way of spending the hour of dusk. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I asked him presently whether he had been spending his half-holiday up and down town? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She was spending the winter in the city with connections, the family of Colonel John O'Fallon, well known in St. Louis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They were always moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation, and always spending more than they ought. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You wouldn't mind spending your days here? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head lama. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• There's something worth spending in that there book, dear boy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Thriftless gives, not from a beneficent pleasure in giving, but from a lazy delight in spending. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• That meeting was the occasion of my spending a few days under the same roof with her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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