Wastes

Examples

• The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day, one day with another, wastes the privilege of using one hundred pounds each day. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And a society like ours wastes such good material in producing its little patch of purple! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His emotions responded to the glories of tropica l vegetation in the Brazilian forests, and to the sublimity of Patagonian wastes and the forest-cl ad hills of Tierra del Fuego. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Further, water assists in the removal of the daily bodily wastes, and thus rids the system of foul and poisonous substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But while the careless disposal of wastes may not spoil the drinking water (in the well to be described), other laws of health demand a thoughtful disposal of wastes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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