Hang it, man, you forget that he has to pay off the interest of a lot of money, and besides that, you may be sure that he always spends his income before he gets it.
And yet this navvy spends his life in a lodging-house, where these cunning mortals live.
Now, although a navvy spends the best part of his life among beggars in common lodging-houses, it is surprising how simple and innocent he is as to beggars' tricks and dodges.
When he gets panicky, and spends all his money on new equipment and service, it's time for me to drop him.
Whether a man spends his day in an ecstasy or despondency, he must do some work to show for it, even as there are flesh and bones to show for him.
He usuallyspends Saturday and a part of Sunday with me.
But the man who, in common with others, has laid out his money on several mines in a region renowned for its wealth of metals, rarely spends it in vain, for fortune usually responds to his hopes in part.
The hours he spends among the pictures are his best hours in Venice, and I am ashamed to have written so much of common things when I might have been making festoons of the names of the masters.
To ride once, in these conditions, is of course to ride again and to allot to the Campagna a generous share of the time one spends in Rome.
The hour one spendswith Byron's memory then is almost compassionate.
He is fond of sunshine and spends hours of every fit day lying in sunny, sheltered places.
Although he has a home underground, he spends most of his waking hours outdoors.
He has four daughters, miss, and two h'orphan nieces that generally spends the season with 'im.
One strives to get skill with tools, another is a conjurer, another spendshis life among beautiful and delicate plants, another reads with his fingers.
The history of all who have faithfully studied the works of the great masters is, that for all the thought and time one spends in studying master works a great gain comes.
But time it is upon which the exalting and multiplying power of opium chiefly spends its operation.
Brazil, who spends his life in their company, declares that even the most deadly species is without hostile feeling for man.
It has been calculated that an Argentino spends twice as much in a year on mate as a Frenchman on coffee.
But if a man defies the future, and spends all that he earns, whether it be much or little, let him look for lean and hungry want at some future time; for it will surely come, no matter what he thinks.
He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, in injury and reparation; for anger begins in folly, but ends in repentance.
In fact, Dorinda is a kleptomaniac; that is to say, she is a member of the upper classes who spends her time in collecting works of art that do not belong to her.
Waste time never spends The royal bird, to give the brute his due; And when he eats, he eats, to tell the truth.
The aristocrat, on the other hand, has usually been brought up to the cultivation of enjoyment, and he therefore spends with perfect equanimity more on his pleasure than the bourgeois mind can countenance.
He lives in Petersburg, where he spends all his money, and has food and wine more than he wants.
Miss Juliet, they say, has some money of her own, but she spends all that upon the poor people about Yelverly, and upon books.
I will show her this god of her idolatry as low and empty a licentious debauchee as any that crawls through opera saloons, or spends his days and nights between the gaming table and the brothel!
Each apprentice on leaving Coaster's Harbor Island spends a year on a training ship and is then transferred to a regular man-of-war.
His time off duty the marine spends in the forecastle and amidships reading, sleeping, writing up his diary or twanging the strings of his favorite instrument, the guitar.
The British nation also spends its money freely, and has equal difficulty in meeting the slightest emergency.
The moneys that the British Empire spends upon defence are immensely great, and what is wanted is that those moneys should be spent as is decided by the best advisers who can be obtained.
These are his ways, his course, the paths wherein he spends his life, and therefore he is seldom found out of one or another of them.
Man, before his heart is broken, counts time his own, and therefore he spends it lavishly upon every idle thing.
He not only stretches forth his own hands to take food, but, to the torment of our noble youths, he washes himself, dresses himself, and his barber spends whole days in snaring birds and thus wastes his abilities.
Dagon is in Pi-Bast, but he spends whole days with other Phoenician merchants in the temple of Astarte in prayer and penance.
He spends all his winters in Warsaw, and lives every summer in the country.
I write as one who spends most of his life in London, and for me the violet, the primrose, and the crocus are lacking in the same necessary quality--they pick badly.
He's only 15 and ought to be in school, but it seems he spends most of his time loafin' at home.
And next day I spends most of my lunch hour prowlin' around on the Sixth Ave.
He has stuck up a real estate sign and spends most of his time layin' out his acres of sand and marsh into impossible buildin' lots.
Well, Ballaston honestly believes that every hour he spends with this Image is doing him harm morally and that very belief is apt to make him behave at odd times impossibly.
I wonder whether it is a proof of vanity or of an immense sense of self-respect which leads a woman who spends her whole life upon a couch to take such pains with her appearance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
