But, scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest!

The depressing and exhaustive force of military life on the soldiers is gradually accumulative, or the power of resistance gradually wastes, from the beginning to the end of service.

The remainder of the afternoon was wasted utterly on the terrasse of the Café de l'Univers, with the château ever in view, wishing it were convenable to make one's duty call without more delay.

But we waste our breath uselessly in this matter, since our agents have not yet reported their success in the pursuit.

Then let us now resolve, nor idly waste Another hour in dull deliberation.

" "But you are, at any rate, the very man I wanted to see," said Lady Tintern, who seldom wasted time in preliminaries.

Who shall say when our boys die at eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, our girls either in their girlhood or in the first strain of their womanhood,who shall say that they might not have passed safely through the dangers, had no vital force been unnecessarily wasted in their childhood, their infancy?

"You are merely wasting time and sentiment on this young upstart of a country lawyer, Elinor.

He was a young German, fair of face, but terribly wasted by disease.

Scarcely a foot of ground is wasted by the industrious inhabitants of this happy valley, save round the shores of the Denia-el-Memek, a huge salt lake some miles distant, where the sun-baked, briny soil renders cultivation of any kind impossible.

Dick Stanmore, reading in the Morning Post an eloquent account of Viscount Bearwarden's marriage to Miss Bruce, with the festivities consequent thereon, felt that he had sadly wasted his loyalty, if indeed this lady were the real sovereign to whom the homage of his heart was due.

But wherefore should I waste the time These tedious questions to recall?

Each of these several kinds of research should be in progress almost continuously in order that no materials or opportunities for observation be needlessly wasted.

He was not a communicative man, and rarely wasted half an hour at the snug little inn near St. Oswald's Church, amidst the cluster of habitations that was once called Kirktown.

A foraging expedition under Bohemond and Tancred filled the camp with food; it was again recklessly wasted.

The stranger was not only well advanced in life, but he was obviously wasting away with disease.

It is natural to feel grief or indignation when any thing necessary or useful is wantonly wasted, or negligently destroyed; and therefore my correspondent cannot be blamed for looking with uneasiness on the waste of life.

"What wouldest thou?" demanded the Signor Grimaldi; "he that can proclaim the danger should have some expedient to divert it?" "More timely exertion would have given us the resource of ordinary means; but, like those who die in their sins, we have foolishly wasted most precious minutes.

Opal and ground glass throw a very strong shadow, and practically waste half the light.

They found him lying on a heap of mouldy straw; he was miserably wasted, and to all seeming lifeless; yet they knew him at once for Andrew; and Harry perceived there was life yet in him.

In addition we annually waste much of our best oak in the preparation of split staves for export.

The public money was habitually wasted and occasionally embezzled, and there was general dissatisfaction.

None dead or wounded; only powder wasted, happily.

Some fifty millions of Southern dollars, heretofore annually wasted in fashionable dissipation, will thus be kept in our own pockets and out of yours.

The furniture industry not infrequently wastes from 40 to 60 per cent.