Rogers' capable nurse, decided finally that a longer stay in Bainbridge would be wasted time.
But Benis Spence had never wasted time upon the lady herself.
They were strongly tempted at times to stop and explore these unknown mysteries, but the reflection that every moment thus wasted would prolong their stay on this underground stream always checked the impulse.
If they could only have known what was close at hand, fresh life would have flowed into their wasted veins.
After twenty years and more of a happy peace, is this land to be wasted again by factions and civil war?
His heart seemed broken within him; and there was a flush on his wasted cheek, and then a terrible coughing.
Yet it appeared to his friend that all through the next twelvemonth he merely wasted time, such work as he did finish being of very slight value.
Vexed, humiliated, Warburton wasted the Sunday morning, and only after his midday meal yielded to the temptation of a brilliant sky, which called him forth.
He wasted four weeks of precious time at New York, and did not embark his troops till October 12.
In 1779 the Americans retaliated on the Indians with fearful severity, and cruelly wasted the lands of the Senecas and Cayugas and the settlements in the Alleghany.
Besides money deliberately spent in corruption, vast sums were wasted on abuses in the royal household, on sinecures, and on other useless places of profit.
Its crews were wasted by sickness, and when a change of wind enabled Hardy to enter the Channel, the enemy did not follow him into its narrower waters and early in September left our shores.
They appear to have wasted a year at Machias quite aimlessly, with possibly some advantage to their facility of talking, but at a serious cost to their slender resources.
Come, Seleneck," he said, "I have wasted time enough.
But you are wasted on the Staff, my dear Arnim; sheer wasted.
He had heard that a single woman had come in the night before and, shrewd merchant that he was, he had wasted no time.
Never before to have paused to philosophize over what had caused his wasted life!
But all this worry was doubtless being wastedupon mere supposition.
He had wasted a hundred rounds before getting the hang of it.
And Peter halts to gather breath, And now full clearly was it shown (What he before in part had seen) How gaunt was the poor Ass and lean, Yea wasted to a skeleton!
Gigantic sums of money are annually wasted by the government for the military," said he, in a ringing voice.
The light has wasted itself away beneath the bushel.
For one act of disobedience she was disinherited--all these months and years wasted for nothing.
Mr. Wyndham arranged the long white mantle around the wasted figure, drawing the hood over the head and face.
But Nathalie had already heard his voice, and was sitting up, with a strained white face, and her poor wasted hands pressed hard over her heart.
The blue eyes turned upon the sweet face with the clear light of restored reason, and a faint smile dawned on the wasted face.
Whatever she had once been, she was nothing but a poor, wasted shadow now.
The forlorn and wasted looks and starving condition of these two men struck dismay to the hearts of Mr. Hunt's followers.
When the party reached the place, they found the poor fellow lying on a parcel of withered grass, wasted to a perfect skeleton, and so feeble that he could scarce raise his head or speak.
The pathos of Eugénie's wasted life, the long suffering of Mme.
Under the stress of mental suffering, the flesh on his face had wastedto the bone; he was the image of death.
Perhaps no one was ever better fitted to depict the ruin wrought by a fixed idea than Balzac himself, who wasted much of his laborious life in struggling to discover a short cut to wealth.
He being thin and wasted by all his misfortunes, escaped death, and saw all his comrades fattened and roasted, till they went mad, with cries of anguish.
Though of strong constitution naturally, when the sufferer's mind gave way his physical health began to fail also, and he gradually wasted away until death released him in February, 1837.
She was a Good Woman who never formed the Matinee Habit and up to the Day of her Death she could put her Hand on her Heart and truly say she had not wasted any Money on Jewelry or Cut Flowers.
He would buy a Winchester Automatic and devote the remainder of his wasted Life to shooting up Barkeeps.
The remainder has probably been wasted in those silly trifles of which you have told me the unhappy man was so fond, and for which he has bartered respectability and peace of mind.
We have yet a few minutes of liberty, and let them not be wasted idly, in vain regrets.
He wasted hours getting his load transferred to another wagon, and finally got started again.
With the loss of 4,000 men, Napoleon fell back northwards into the wastedplains of Sézanne.
Jean saw him for the last time on the evening before his funeral, when his wasted body lay in a cheap coffin covered with flowers, his care-worn face framed by the wavy masses of his sable hair, then sprinkled with gray.
Wasted to a skeleton, and in deep anxiety about his own soul, he was pointed to Him who says, "Come unto Me,.
Contrast, says the socialist, the wasted labors of the milkman with the orderly and systematic performance of the postman, himself a little fragment of socialism.
The dying man's chest heaved with labouring breath, for his wasted strength was scarcely sufficient to bear this shock of surprise.
It cost him upwards of an hour's patient research; but when at last he did arrive at the result of his studies he wasted no time in idle speculation.
The obstinate horse went off at an accommodating amble under the sweet sway of gentleness, while the obedient pony followed at a brisk trot which nearly shook all the little strength that Tom Brixton possessed out of his wasted frame.
He also insinuated a pen between the wasted fingers.
My hostess wasted no time in argument or preamble; she came straight to the point.
I placed them between thewasted fingers, which still remained outside the coverlet.
A chap like that would have been clean wasted in Twickenham House.
And he now lay dying in his huge, draughty bed-chamber, hung with the portraits of his ancestors--all bad and filled with the ghosts of his youth and wasted old age.
But no one would have wasted time upon either arm or foot after a glance at her face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wasted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
