"Spare time" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nothing was heard of her. Gilbert Potter remained on his farm, busy with the labor of the opening spring; Mark Deane was absent, taking measurements and making estimates for the new house, and Sally Fairthorn spent all her spare time in spinning flax for a store of sheets and table-cloths, to be marked "S. A. F." in red silk, when duly woven, hemmed, ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor
... asked why Jim Tumley didn't have a piano to take up his spare time and keep him out of harm's way, Grandma was ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... tell you how I occupy my spare time in reading, writing, and playing the flute. We are forming a band here. I shall play either the flute or hautboy. I enjoy myself pretty well. In Latin I am studying Sallust. As to ease, all I have to do is study straight ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various
... not until late in the evening that I could spare time to call upon her, and, what was not usual, I went empty-handed. I found to my surprise that the door was shut to, and the shutters of the shop not taken down. I tried the latch, the door opened, and ...
— Poor Jack • Frederick Marryat
... most welcome addition to our daily diet. The threads were rather coarse, but we believed that they might be worked up into a kind of sheeting which, while perhaps rather stiff and uncomfortable when fashioned into garments, would make a very good sail; and I devoted every moment of my spare time to the gathering and preparation of the stuff, my idea being that after I had made a suit of sails for the boat, if the others still refused to undertake a second boat voyage, they might agree to my going away alone in ...
— The First Mate - The Story of a Strange Cruise • Harry Collingwood
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