Yet the same persons think nothing of frittering away, without return, that which the wealth of the whole world cannot buy back for them.
I wonder if you and I are in the habit of frittering away two invaluable gifts for which we have to give a strict account to our Father in heaven.
It isn't frittering away the strength," she protested.
I've no intention of frittering away my strength on that sort of thing.
They had not the least idea how much mischief they had done him in the way of frittering away his influence heretofore.
What is the use of idling through life, frittering away your youth, I repeat, frittering away your youth, when you might be working to achieve some great and noble end?
Madame Francesca, as she will be called, can no longer keep on living in this frittering brownstone relic of better days.
The frittering brownstone and discolored brick suit me as naturally as a hole in the sand befits a prairie dog.
In the following August (1788) it became evident that the serious work he had put in while his companions were lounging about or frittering away their time was beginning to have its due effect.
Here they were, fritteringaway untold fortunes, each trying to go to perdition to save the other--it makes me tired!
At once he saw that the rest of the party were light-minded children, frittering life away; and at once they took his measure.
Nor must it be supposed that the problem seemed as grave to her as it really was--the danger of frittering away her own higher nature in faithfulness to one of the noblest impulses of that nature.
Yet there were officers and men of the Sultan's army frittering away their time and wasting opportunities of at last doing something for the country they profess to love, here in the capital with the enemy hammering at the outer defences.
Instead, he seemed to spend most of his time frittering over some desk work, though now and then he walked up and down the aisles talking in a low voice to various senators.
Shortsightedness, disorder, waste, the frittering away of public moneys and irresponsibility: that is the balance.
He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
But above all, he came penetrated with the deplorable effects which had resulted from the mistake of Nikias, in wasting irreparably so much precious time, and frittering away the first terror-striking impression of his splendid armament.
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