"Spending" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marked Florence's answer. "Tell him my father is not here—is spending the evening ...
— The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day • Robert Neilson Stephens
... entitled the PRISONER OF CHILLON. Chillon is an ancient castle which stands on the shore, twenty or thirty miles beyond, and very near, in fact, to the extremity of the lake. Byron has made this castle renowned throughout the world by spending a few days, while he was stopped at this inn at Ouchy by a storm, when travelling on the lake, in writing a poem in which he describes the emotions and sufferings of some imaginary prisoners whom he supposed to ...
— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott
... but he will come as a stallion. Meanwhile his Law precedes him, so that I am spending my vacation peacefully in Hell, with none of my ordinary annoyances to ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... keep Dick in Cedarville any longer, and he prepared to return to the Stanhope cottage with the mare. But before going he entered the leading drug store, and here purchased a box of choice chocolates for Dora, for he fortunately had his spending money with him, or at least the balance left over from ...
— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield
... trade competition. The Arabs had found out the river, had established a trading post in Sambir, and where they traded they would be masters and suffer no rival. Lingard returned unsuccessful from his first expedition, and departed again spending all the profits of the legitimate trade on his mysterious journeys. Almayer struggled with the difficulties of his position, friendless and unaided, save for the protection given to him for Lingard's sake by the old Rajah, the predecessor of Lakamba. Lakamba ...
— Almayer's Folly - A Story of an Eastern River • Joseph Conrad
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