1 Scarlett was in a furious temper and did not scruple to expend it on Hugh, for she had just received an order for a large amount of lumber--a rush order at that.
2 To this Teta Elzbieta hastened to respond that nothing could be too cheap to suit them just then; for they were quite terrified over the sums they had had to expend.
3 There was no term of abuse known to the Huron vocabulary that the disappointed women did not lavishly expend on the successful stranger.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 4 There grief might freely expend itself without being disturbed by the trifling loungers who came from a picnic party to visit Pere-la-Chaise, or by lovers who make it their rendezvous.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault. 5 Morrel, in a corner of the carriage, allowed his brother-in-law's gayety to expend itself in words, while he felt equal inward joy, which, however, betrayed itself only in his countenance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 92. The Suicide. 6 In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable squadrons.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 7 Insurrection, which is speedily exhausted, has only a certain number of shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 8 He was yet speaking, when a crashing sound was heard, and a cannon-ball entered the thicket, striking the body of a sapling, and rebounding to the earth, its force being much expended by previous resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 9 Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 10 They expended their lungs with prodigal wills.
11 Eventually, his courage expended itself upon these objections.
12 The men, having hurled themselves in projectile fashion, had presently expended their forces.
13 It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
14 You have expended a great deal on my education, and have always been as liberal to me in all things as it was possible to be.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI... 15 He's good for a hundred a-year, but of course that must be expended on himself.