The man was as hopeless-looking a wasterand vagabond as any I ever saw, but he spoke like a man of education.
The waster said the workman was flurried, went away hurriedly, but returned in half an hour.
Why, you can pick up a waster of the same kind any night of the year you like, and he'll pitch you any yarn he thinks you want.
I must get hold of the waster who told the story, and hear for myself what he has to say.
The site of Rogers' kilns in or near Yorktown has not been found, nor have his waster tips and pits been located.
Glazing also occurs on the fractures, identifying this piece as a waster and therefore of considerable importance.
On through the glades they went; and presently they came to one wherein they saw a great boar, a waster of the woods, standing savagely at bay, the while two gallant hounds stood before it.
Wulnoth the boy thrall, friend of Prince Guthred, Straying with Edgiva deep in the woodland, Then came the waster roaring against them, Fierce in his anger, he the death giver.
Guthred, "surely here is the story already, for weakness has become strength, and you have conquered the waster while I fled like a nithing.
Shivering with disgust] How can I feel sure that I may not have the contaminated blood of that brutalwaster in my veins?
Liz and I had to work and save and calculate just like other people; elseways we should be as poor as any good-for-nothing drunken waster of a woman that thinks her luck will last for ever.
I looked: aside the dust-cloud rolled, The Waster seemed the Builder too; Upspringing from the ruined Old I saw the New.
Waster builds again, A charmed life old Goodness bath; The tares may perish, but the grain Is not for death.
The waster being now in his season of plenty falls to abusing the Statute of Labourers: "And then cursed he the king and all his council after, Such laws to loke, labourers to grieve.
Thus likewise saith Thiodolf the Skald: 'The waster of wolves' sorrow Let the eyes twain of the throned King be put out; The prince of the Agdir folk on the Eastern King Laid a grisly mark whereby was he horribly blinded.
Thus saith Thiodolf: 'Waster of isle-dwellers Hard hands laid on Raumfolk, Steadily on the ranks Of Harald went, as I trow.
He threatened to be a waster in his day; but he's no waster now.
Barton,[179] and to waster sherds in his possession from the Buckley kiln sites in Flintshire, North Wales.
And they of the other part sat down on the brows of Kallikolon around thee, Archer Phoebus, and Ares waster of cities.
Yet neither were his men leaderless, only they sorrowed for their leader; but Medon marshalled them, Oileus' bastard son, whom Rhene bare to Oileus waster of cities.
So said the common sort; but up rose Odysseus waster of cities, with sceptre in his hand.
Nine days hath dispute arisen among the Immortals concerning the corpse of Hector and Achilles waster of cities.
That's a terrifying spectacle," I heard Waster Lunny say when the music had become but a distant squeal.
I waded and jumped my way as near to the farm as I dared go, and Waster Lunny, seeing me, came to the water's edge.
On the day I am recalling, I see that I only made one entry in my diary, "At last bought Waster Lunny's bantams.
Mr. Dishart," was all I caught after Waster Lunny had flung his words across a dozen times.
At one time I was in a cornfield, where I had to lift my hands to keep them out of water, and a dread filled me that I had wandered in a circle, and was still on Waster Lunny's land.
And we meant to tell you about it at once," said Waster Lunny; "but there's aye so muckle to say about a minister.
Nor me," said Waster Lunny, "though I only got the tail o't.
They will soon discriminate between thewaster and the deserving man.
The waster is always boasting that parsons are so easily deceived.
Waster Lunny was a man whose care in his leisure hours was to keep from his wife his great pride in her.
I missed it," said Waster Lunny, "for I was in full cry after Ezra, with the sweat running down my face.
So I will," she answered, "if Waster Lunny would haud his wheest for a minute.
He ended; and the city-waster Chief Himself accosted next.
Then uprose also, city-waster Chief, Ulysses, whom the King Alcinoüs Led forth to council at the ships convened.
At last to gain the city-waster Chief, 140 And, after all, consumed a whole month more The wide sea traversing from side to side.
He wouldn't think anyone but a waster would marry me.
Yet I dare not say that He is a waster of comforts, for no less would have borne me up; one grain-weight less would have casten the balance.
I wonder that He should waste so much love upon such a waster as I am; but He is no waster, but abundant in mercy.
And the text saith moreover, I have created the wasterto destroy.
To be slothful and a waster too, is to be as it were a double sinner.
Rowdy Bejant in the college He was styled: Never had these halls of knowledge Welcomed waster half so wild!
The waster came back and supposed he would do some golfing "over across.
The waster had him in the car outside, a firm grasp on one of his arms.
He was before a polished bar, the white-jacketed attendant of which not only recognized the waster but seemed to divine his errand.
I'll allow you only one," said the waster judicially as the car moved off.
He discovered a bathroom adjoining and was presently suffering the celestial agonies of a cold bath with no waster to coerce him.
White of an egg, delicate but nourishing after bachelor dinners," said the waster expertly.
Inside, he found the waster interestedly poking with his stick at a roundish object on the floor.
Bean was thinking that thewaster possessed more executive talent than Grandma had given him credit for; also that he would find an excuse to break away once they were outside; also that Balthasar was keenly witty.
But the waster pushed one of the slender-stemmed glasses toward him.
The three Breedes and the waster stood apart, studying him queerly.
If I'm a waster and no account and a bad egg, you're one too.
He's been a waster so far, but I think he's got some good stuff in him.
I knew all along that I was being a waster and a loafer, but I was so happy that I didn't mind.
He was a waster and a loafer who pretended to be an artist.
Evening wasterabout a woman writer trying it both ways.
Unusually good evening waster about night-club and theatrical people, with both male and female homosexual episodes; handled with subtlety and lightness almost unknown in this publisher's paperbacks.
Evening waster about a young no-good who earns his living as a paid escort/gigolo and relaxes with boy friends but still loudly insists he is normal.
Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another.
Evening waster about a lush actress making a comeback on a college campus, who revenges herself on an indifferent male by entrapping his girl into a drunken lesbian episode and inviting him to watch the show.
One lesbian episode in an eveningwaster about Carnival.
Evening waster about girls coming to the wicked big city, and we all know what happens to such girls in this kind of book.
Despite the lurid blurb and cover, this is a nice evening waster about an innocent young girl who goes to work for a woman's health club which is, behind the scenes, an abortion mill run by gangsters.
Rather good evening waster about a supposed double murder, gradually solved by the slow revelation of the affair between Brenda and her 16 year old stepdaughter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
