Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. From LearnThat.org. [Marian Wright Edelman]
The spare figure of a marathon runner. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I'll spare you from having to apologize formally. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
DAVIDSON: You would have to take a spare job -- what they call a spare hand in those days. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Betty and Lloyd Davidson, 1979 February 2 and 15. Interview H-19. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Betty Davidson] Reference
In what she called her spare time she was engaged in the endless task of repairing and extending her forlorn little shanties. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
So they kept us in spare rooms and servant quarters. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2007 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Every dollar you can spare is another dollar closer to victory. From Wordnik.com. [Club For Growth Asks For Unlimited Contributions To Help Toomey] Reference
I always keep a book at work to read in spare moments of all sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Better late than never (lol)] Reference
Whatever card you use, credit, ATM, etc. get a spare from the company. From Wordnik.com. [Credit Card Use] Reference
Also developing a Video podcast with friends in spare time called L2P-TV. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What do you do?] Reference
If I had the 5% in spare change right now I'd definitely submit an idea myself. From Wordnik.com. [October 2008] Reference
Reading in spare moments from the current issues of Cemetery Dance and City Slab. From Wordnik.com. [Bright Eyes, The President, God, and little voices] Reference
"Hop in," cried the Tortoise gaily; "there's room enough and to spare, is there not?". From Wordnik.com. [Parables From Nature] Reference
On his desk was always some scientific work, usually French, which he read in spare moments. From Wordnik.com. [Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship] Reference
In one corner stood a bed surrounded by curtains as white as snow; this mother called her spare-day bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Bark Covered House]
Oblivion is composed in spare yet often poetic prose ... a new thriller from an unheralded master of suspense. From Wordnik.com. [Oblivion: Summary and book reviews of Oblivion by Peter Abrahams.] Reference
OUR VERY DEAR MOTHER, – We would fain spare you the uncertainty which is the shady side of our wandering life. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home"] Reference
I believe that abundance for all and to spare is round the corner, if we have the faith to look clear-eyed ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Canada and the Empire of Tomorrow] Reference
It robs from me every bit of life and time I call spare, and this month it does so at an even more cataclysmic rate. From Wordnik.com. [xenogere] Reference
She herself ended her days camped out in spare bedrooms and hotels and hospital wards, as broke and addressless as she had begun. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from the Fiction Department: The Widow Orwell] Reference
If he's called a spare, why isn't he treated like one?. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 52] Reference
The girls were established in what was known as the spare-room of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Bookful of Girls] Reference
Maybe the official role of the spare is to be the bridge to the king. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
He is a practical farmer in what he is pleased to call his spare time. From Wordnik.com. [British Films] Reference
The spare was a recalled Firestone and took only three days to fall apart. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2006] Reference
Frankly the idea of spare parts or worse yet a clone of Scalia gives me the willies. From Wordnik.com. ["A cloned human would be imbued with the same immaterial presence that binds us all, even Antonin Scalia, to the Godhead."] Reference
In her spare time - which I shouldn't even call spare time because we're both so busy. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Daily Headlines] Reference
I’d have to check it, but I bet it was close, and this is something I write in spare moments. From Wordnik.com. [Just curious] Reference
Now that the heir is off the marriage market, the spare is the most eligible bachelor in England. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Jeffrey Ventre, a SeaWorld Orlando trainer from 1987 to 1995, called spare air "a phony solution.". From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
The ribs are treated the same as the loin, and when the rind and fat are cut off are called spare-ribs. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Parloa's New Cook Book] Reference
SNOW: He told crowds in South Carolina he wants to replace the income tax with a national sales tax, so-called spare tax. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2008] Reference
While out we dropped off my tire and realized that I needed another one since the spare is a doughnut and not a full sized tire. From Wordnik.com. [week 5 - Beastlette's MySpace Blog |] Reference
I have been living on the little money that my retired parents have been able to spare, which isn't really enough to even buy food on. From Wordnik.com. Reference
You fly out in one while the spare is abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.] Reference
Allow a little "spare" on the boards for truing up. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
And if you read Grant ` s memoirs, it ` s the same kind of spare writing. From Wordnik.com. [Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America] Reference
It means that there are no superfluous people, no 'spare' people in the human world. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity: Public Religion and the Common Good] Reference
There is nowhere near that kind of spare capacity in the military or civilian air transport system. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Debate Roundup] Reference
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