When asked why he comes to the prison so often, he remarked that, when once in prison it is impossible to get work to do on the outside, and he had made up his mind to spend the rest of his days in prison.
He wishes to spend the rest of his days a free man.
It was on a beautiful Sunday morning, and the prisoners having been to religious services, were on their way back to their cells to spend the rest of the day in solitude.
After his day's work, done in silence, is past, he is locked up in his solitary cell to spend the evening as best he can.
Do you want to spend the remainder of your life in an invalid's chair, or would you like to walk abroad and sit a horse again?
All of them remained to spend the afternoon, because in our home it was perfectly lovely.
How would you like to be shut in little, stuffy rooms, and set to droning over books and papers every hour of the day, all your life, and to spend the best of your brain and bodily strength straightening out other men's quarrels?
Few people who have lived many years in Canada and return to England to spend the remainder of their days, accomplish the fact.
I haven't been North since your mother died, but now I want to go, and I want you to spend therest of your life there.
When they reached home they found Aunt Grace entertaining some friends who had come to spend the day.
She could not enter the college that she wished for till the winter term, and meant to spend the autumn in severe study.
Of course she had to retire, and happily for her, Mother Constance was just at that time sentenced by her rheumatism to spend the winter in a warm climate.
Such a character could not fail of attracting my regard; I longed impatiently to be acquainted with him, and desired Jackson would engage him to spend the evening in my apartment.
It was after the Colonel's retirement that we came to spend the summers at Nantucket, and I began to enjoy the leisure that never comes into the life of an army woman during the active service of her husband.
I told him spitefully that if the women of Fort Whipple would come down to MacDowell to spend the summer, they would soon be able to explain it to him.
It was hard to leave the sunny South, to spend the winter in those congealed regions in the North.
Do you think these ladies want to spend the night on the grève?
All the household could find time to spend the evening on the old benches; these latter lined the sidewalk just beneath the low kitchen casements.
She seemed a decent woman and tolerable cook; and, although our French housekeeper and prime Minister had deserted us at our utmost need, we ventured to leave the house, and to spend the day at Tacubaya.
In the evening we went to the house of the Marquesa de V---o, to spend the Christmas-eve.
Crump, two hale and jolly gentlemen who rode over every Thursday to spend the night.
She was sitting before a log fire, surrounded by a group of Harrisons and Powells, who had been prevailed upon to spend the night, and when he entered she gave him a sleepy little nod from the corner of a rosewood sofa.
It would be a delightful climate for invalids to spend the winter in; and if all England could be roofed over with glass, it would be a great improvement on its present condition.
I promised to dine with her to-night, but I broke that promise and agreed to spend the evening.
I am leaving for Nice, where I expect to spend the winter.
That is not resting,' said I, `that is not the way you are accustomed tospend the Lord's day.
My dear wife assured me that she desired nothing more earnestly than to spend the rest of her days in a place to which she had become so much attached, provided I, and at least two of her sons, also wished to remain.
In that case we shall have to spend the whole of tomorrow in baking cakes.
It appeared that he was come to spend the Sunday at Avonmouth, and Grace tried to extract the comfort for her mother that two gentlemen were better than one, and Fanny need not be on their minds for chaperonage for that day.
An arrangement was made that Rachel should be sent for early to spend the day at Timber End, and that Mr. Clare and Alick should walk over later.
So acceptable had Bessie Keith made herself everywhere, that all Avonmouth was grieved at her engagement to spend the winter at Bath with her married cousin, to whom she was imperatively necessary in the getting up of a musical party.
We had intended to spend the night in a nearby town with Skip's brother so we just drove the rest of the way.
We made it to Sremburg where we were going to spend the night.
They opened up the motel so we would have a place to spend the night in the lobby and some of the rooms.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spend the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
