I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars, and the memory of his misspent youth.
Not to seek to change the stern decree; not to annul those bitter phrases: his dissolute career--the memory of his misspent youth!
Of one thing she was quite confident; wherever her husband had spent or misspent his life (if any part of so successful a whole could really have been misspent), it was not in England.
Langholm could not help the double emphasis; to him it seemed a grotesque turning of the tables, a too poetically just ending to that misspent day.
When they realize their condition they weep, groan and bitterly lament over their misspent lives.
I was sorry for my past misspent life, and purposed an immediate reformation: I was quite freed from the habit of swearing, which seemed to have been deeply rooted in me as a second nature.
Thee to deplore were grief misspent indeed; It were to weep that goodness has its meed, That there is bliss prepared in yonder sky, And glory for the virtuous when they die.
Were it not for her good looks and pity for her misspent life and death she would be absolutely unendurable.
The sight of so much misspent labour, of the acres of canvases deluged with dirty, bad paint, raises my bile.
Provided I had not misspent my time, would it have been necessary to make that effort, which, after all, had only enabled me to leave London, and wander about the country for a time?
What torrents of self-reproach swept over him as he retraced the wanderings of his misspent years--misspent as regarded the service of his Creator, however prosperous in the eyes of the world!
I misspent my youth, and used to get the chaps to do my exercises.
At last, when they had reached Charing Cross on Arthur's way home to the Temple, Harry Foker relieved himself, and broke out with that eulogium upon poetry, and those regrets regarding a misspent youth which have just been mentioned.
I am confident that in the great majority of cases, looking back on his misspentgolfing youth, he would answer that he would cheerfully do all this learning if he could begin again at the beginning.
These are the times when the golfer's pulse beats strong, and he feels the remorse of the man with the misspent youth because he was grown up and his limbs were setting before ever he teed a ball.
Then will the remembrance of thy former misspent time, and thy despair of ever gaining more, be like poisoned arrows drinking up they spirit.
Let not the voice of night birds us afflict, And of our misspent summer us convict.
The solemn aspect of this sacred shore Wakes for the misspent past my bitter sighs; 'Pause, wretched man!
I hope that when I come to die I may not have cause for deep regrets, or to mourn over a misspent life.
This incited him to great activity; and I often heard him say: "An hour misspentor trifled away is just so much time given to Satan.
Praise is a savory dish, not a thing that my misspent life has been surfeited with, and it was exquisitely soothing to one's vanity.
He was also uniformly behind time; and Mark Lemon used humorously to bemoan half his days misspent in cabs between the Punch office and the artist's various residences collecting his belated drawings.
Every day, for many months past, he remembered his misspentpermission and cursed the way he had passed it.
He remembered his misspent permission, and the thought of it nauseated him.
Of all regrets, the remorse that must accompany the closing moments of a misspent life must possess the sharpest sting.
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