Your bourgeois expects that time won't be wasted.

He was not much of an economist, but it was obvious that time and labor were wasted when a farmer took a few sacks of potatoes to the railway and another a sack of wool.

Broken, rough fragments of rock, were all that rewarded the most anxious investigation; and after a few precious minutes uselessly wasted, they all assembled around the guide, as if by common consent, to seek his counsel.

" "What did you say?" asked Katherine, who then began to wonder if their fish had really wasted through being stolen, instead of having merely been used too fast.

That great assemblage from all parts of the country on his funeral day was the response to this appeal, and the best answer to the question as to whether he had erred in the choice of a calling and wasted his powers.

Lan hesitated, thought of the wasted provisions, his empty purse, his broken rifle, and answered: "Make it fifty and it's a go.

While we wasted our time, he had made the most of his.

There was no more time to be wasted.

I think Lord Pinkerton would find me useful on one of his papers; I'm wasted on the Fact.

What a vast reward is here for all the ink wasted by writers and all the blood spilt by princes!

It will be sufficient here to remark that there has for many years been scarcely a single administration of the French Government by whom the justice and legality of the claims of our citizens to indemnity were not to a very considerable extent admitted, and yet near a quarter of a century has been wasted in ineffectual negotiations to secure it.

After the delay on the part of France of a quarter of a century in acknowledging these claims by treaty, it is not to be tolerated that another quarter of a century is to be wasted in negotiating about the payment.

The emperor intended these palaces to be his summer residence, and was followed there by many of the rich nobles of the court, who built mansions and villas of corresponding size and splendor to gratify him and their own vanitybut all its magnificence was wasted, strange to say.

I had above a barrel and a half of powder left; for after the first year or two I used but little, and wasted none.

Painting, were the use of it universal, would be a powerful means of instruction to children and the lower orders; and were all the fine surfaces, which are now plain, and absolutely wasted, enriched with the labours of the art, if they once began to appear, they would accumulate rapidly; and were the ornamented edifices open to all, as freely as they ought to be, a wide field of new and agreeable study would offer itself.

Unless the teacher knows these truths, he cannot work with evolution as he should do, and much of his time and of his pupil's time will be wasted.

The care of the body and its development are of the first importance, for without a healthy body all teaching is wasted.

A boy grows most during his sleep, so that the time is not in the least wasted.

Much of the strain of modern school life is due to this lack of confidence, and much time has to be wasted in breaking down barriers which would never have been set up if the teacher had been patient.

All that barley, that would have warmed many an honest fellow's coppers, wasted in filthy cakes.

Have I not followed thee, through drought and frost, Through flooded swamps, rough glens, and wasted lands, Even while I panted most with thy dear loan Of double life? Lewis.

I suppose I have often wasted your time unreasonably.

" "No," said Conolly, unceremoniously, "you have not wasted my time: I never let anybody do that.

I have madly wasted my youth on her.

The monk clasped his hands and looked upward pleadingly, the tears running down his wasted cheeks.