Wherevpon he marched straight to their campe and giuing them battell, vanquished them: and vsing the victorie as reason moued him, he lead his armie against those that inhabited the inner parts of Wales, spoiling the countrie on euerie side.
But the Picts settled themselues first at that season in the vttermost bounds of the Ile, and there continued, making insurrections oftentimes vpon their neighbours, and spoilingthem of their goods.
So would the spoilingof many a gracious utterance be prevented.
It certainly should not consist in exaggerated care and precaution, for in spoiling and softening women by inaction more harm than good is done.
One must not, however, by only looking at one side of the question, allow such efforts to degenerate into maladroit blindness, which will only have the effect of spoiling the person one loves.
I don't quite follow you about his niece and nephew spoiling him.
I'm afraid they are spoiling him just as the missionaries spoil the noble savage.
Well, if I'm spoiling everything I'll just run along," said the girl.
Now, then, Mademoiselle, you are spoiling everything here!
She was nervously afraid of missing her entrance, and she dreaded spoiling her success by some mistake.
The girls had not succeeded in spoiling the scene, for, encouraged by the applause, Kate had chaffed and mocked at the Baillie so winningly that she at once won the sympathy of the house.
You have painted the portrait without spoiling it by any affectations.
The spoiling of Chelsea will not be the same thing as the spoiling of the country by pushing on a suburb, for instance; for in that case there is country beyond, only deferred.
There were scores of men that became shipmasters on our north-east coast who never sought the opportunity of figuring in the galley, and even if they had they could not have cooked a potato without spoiling it!
He didn't want any homesick woman spoiling his songs for him in South America.
If he were late the fraction of five minutes, one suspected that he regretted it, that it came near to spoiling his entire afternoon.
Moreover, here was a multitude looking to him, the great Lord Tyrrington, as to its champion against a vile, sport-spoiling hound of the government.
While in the metropolis these greedy and fanatical barons spent their time in spoiling the houses of the rich Jews, and used the stones in strengthening the walls and gates of the City.
Others would thoughtlessly lament the spoiling of a good swordsman and a brave soldier.
The railway bridge lies flat across the street, only eighteen feet above the roadway, and is a miracle of clumsy and stubborn ugliness, entirely spoiling the approach to one of the finest buildings in London.
And he was laughing at me in his sleeve two years ago, and spoiling the best plan that ever was laid.
Queen Adelaide, connects Egham with Staines, and in these iron times is a positive relief to the eye afflicted by such viaducts, railway and other, as are rapidly spoiling the Thames.
He could not always hold aloof from one so good-natured and good-humoured as the little Duke; and the fact of being kept in order could not but have some beneficial effect on him, after such spoiling as his had been at home.
Only yesterday when he came down to the rectory to see some old deeds, didn't he expatiate on that subject and succeed in spoiling the afternoon.
Why, Louie," I exclaimed, "what did you mean by spoilingthis fine skin?
So on he struggles through the deep snow, spoiling our trail and filling my companion's mind with blasphemous thoughts which occasionally break out in expression, in spite of his respect for my "cloth.
Now this sort of position makes the recoil come at an angle to the wrist, throws the barrel up at the recoil, spoiling the accuracy, and puts more strain on the wrist than is necessary.
The larger the calibre, the easier it is to clean and the less chance is there of spoiling the rifling by jamming the rod in it.
The sight works loose, gets knocked askew, and when you begin shooting you find it is constantly shifting and spoiling your shooting.
They had taken joyfully the spoiling of their substance, knowing that now they had themselves,[239] as a better and an abiding possession.
For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one.
After she had cooked a thing well, she ran the risk of spoiling it by her slowness in getting it on the table.
Neither knew what they were doing, and the spoiling process was interspersed with occasional and (to Austen) unmeaning intervals of severe discipline.
Austen he understood little better, but his affection for the child may be likened to the force of a great river rushing through a narrow gorge, and he vied with Euphrasia in spoiling him.
But it wasn't so much that, in itself, as the influence Dolores was coming to have with the boys, and thus spoiling a plan that Tona had had for a long time, of marrying Tonet to the daughter of an old friend of hers.
Why can't you tell what you have to tell without spoiling what might be a good story by insisting on making the cook talk in that unnatural way?
He was sorry that he had grumbled about the spoiling of his dinner.
This I did finish to-night to thespoiling of my eyes, I fear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
