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    1. But would they be interested enough to squander a few trillion of their fortune to pursue it?


    2. Brontes spent a moment to heal them, then flew at the giant; not wanting to squander the opportunity to attack him while he was yet in a vulnerable state


    3. drug rehabilitation now than to squander your lifetime savings on a


    4. He is afraid that he will not be able to put in that work, that he will squander those days, and that they will leave him worse off than he is now


    5. Don’t squander it! Dig into


    6. illusionary, Illusion sits idly by, watching the squander of energy at its bidding


    7. The Amis seemed to squander energy as they raced around the courts


    8. “I watched a lot of fools talk big about getting rich quick and squander their shares every time we made port


    9. squander the opportunity, Raymond traveled west to deliver in-


    10. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life

    11. Lezura didn’t want Joey to squander off their money on foolish things


    12. It is immoral to squander our


    13. They have done a terrific job up to now, but I believe that they are starting to squander their achievements with their petty jealousy


    14. The trick now was not to squander that element of surprise by some sloppy bomb aiming


    15. that you shouldn’t squander your life in some stupid way and end the family


    16. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of


    17. It’s in that tone his ministry is referred to as God’s government on earth, but he most certainly will die one day, just as all those who sing his praises and squander their money to support his lavish lifestyle


    18. Bush and his administration would squander the opportunity at hand, and together with the


    19. Let no parent squander the opportunity to impart happiness to children


    20. In every meeting, he would remind the local workers, ‘This is our big chance, we must not squander it

    21. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is


    22. “What a pity that we squander the jewels


    23. “That is how we squander both, while cherishing


    24. Then how one spends one's time is how one chooses to invest or squander their speech


    25. Isn't that what happens to all you wise men, so prudently determined to make your way in the world? You must be very sure of another life, or how could you bear to squander this? The things you are missing--oh, the things you are missing!--while you so carefully add little gain to little gain, or what I would rather call little loss to little loss


    26. Celia was not so careless with our meager income that she would squander it on trinkets


    27. A number of so-called “single mothers” I am aware of receiving public assistance as well as availing themselves of the bounty of annual school supply charitable drives instead squander the income freed by this misdirected philanthropy to purchase several hundred dollar handbags, go out partying at nightclubs (no doubt looking for the father of their next baby with no intentions of getting married), and on long, shellacked fingernails that would put a fighting cock to shame


    28. Do not squander what is innocent to gratify that which is wicked


    29. “Do not squander what is innocent to gratify that which is wicked


    30. “Because I believe that every child should be kept closest to the heart, and I would never squander what is innocent to gratify that which is wicked

    31. love but they are so self-obsessed that they don?t even understand how quickly they squander


    32. successfully squander in the long years they learn to live and actually live smartly


    33. However you only have so many hours in a day and it"s really easy to squander those


    34. Without testing and tracking of your results, it"s easy to squander a lot of money quickly


    35. And give the relative his rights, and the poor, and the wayfarer, and do not squander wastefully


    36. The sums he adroitly obtained by a violation of the laws of his country, as well as those of humanity, he would allow a mistress to squander; though she


    37. I did not, though intimidated by the last insinuation, scruple to declare, that I would not allow him to squander the money left to me for far different purposes, but offered him five hundred


    38. Then squander a sovereign in dribs and drabs


    39. when somebody dies belonged to them and wouldnt eat any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be petted so I thought I stood out enough for one time and let him he does it all wrong too thinking only of his own pleasure his tongue is too flat or I dont know what he forgets that wethen I dont Ill make him do it again if he doesnt mind himself and lock him down to sleep in the coalcellar with the blackbeetles I wonder was it her Josie off her head with my castoffs hes such a born liar too no hed never have the courage with a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her Denis as she calls him that forlornlooking spectacle you couldnt call him a husband yes its some little bitch hes got in with even when I was with him with Milly at the College races that Hornblower with the childs bonnet on the top of his nob let us into by the back way he was throwing his sheeps eyes at those two doing skirt duty up and down I tried to wink at him first no use of course and thats the way his money goes this is the fruits of Mr Paddy Dignam yes they were all in great style at the grand funeral in the paper Boylan brought in if they saw a real officers funeral thatd be something reversed arms muffled drums the poor horse walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan that drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the mens W C drunk in some place or other and Martin Cunningham and the two Dedaluses and Fanny MCoys husband white head of cabbage skinny thing with a turn in her eye trying to sing my songs shed want to be born all over again and her old green dress with the lowneck as she cant attract them any other way like dabbling on a rainy day I see it all now plainly and they call that friendship killing and then burying one another and they all with their wives and families at home more especially Jack Power keeping that barmaid he does of course his wife is always sick or going to be sick or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though hes getting a bit grey over the ears theyre a nice lot all of them well theyre not going to get my husband again into their clutches if I can help it making fun of him then behind his back I know well when he goes on with his idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and family goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all the same Im sorry in a way for him what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting Bill Bailey wont you please come home her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men wasnt he yes he was at the Glencree dinner and Ben Dollard base barreltone the night he borrowed the swallowtail to sing out of in Holles street squeezed and squashed into them and grinning all over his big Dolly face like a wellwhipped childs botty didnt he look a balmy ballocks sure enough that must have been a spectacle on the stage imagine paying 5/- in the preserved seats for that to see him trotting off in his trowlers and Simon Dedalus too he was always turning up half screwed singing the second verse first the old love is the new was one of his so sweetly sang the maiden on the hawthorn bough he was always on for flirtyfying too when I sang Maritana with him at Freddy Mayers private opera he had a delicious glorious voice Phoebe dearest goodbye sweetheart sweetheart he always sang it not like Bartell Darcy sweet tart goodbye of course he had the gift of the voice so there was no art in it all over you like a warm showerbath O Maritana wildwood flower we sang splendidly though it was a bit


    40. This morning I went to chat with Dorothy, as always holding a handkerchief so as not to leave fingerprints (I told her it was my grandmother’s—I try to give her a vague impression of Southern wealth gone to squander, very Blanche DuBois)

    41. Paying out a dividend does not guarantee great results, but it does improve the return of the typical stock by yanking at least some cash out of the managers’ hands before they can either squander it or squirrel it away


    42. Never hastily and recklessly chasing a breakout, and thus sometimes “missing” a breakout, is the price we must happily pay to not squander our capital on suboptimal set-ups


    43. Given the limited reward potential of a vertical spread, traders can’t afford to squander 0


    44. He laid his hand on Gavroche's shoulder, and said to him, emphasizing his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on me, I wouldn't refuse to work, but this isn't Shrove Tuesday


    45. And we must remember that we ourselves, and the shape of our Earth Christ, would be meaningless, ridiculous, a squander of material to these Martians


    46. You have filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest


    47. When he finished, he had some thousand letters in three volumes as complete as the Covarrubias Dictionary, but no printer in the city would take the risk of publishing them, and they ended up in an attic along with other papers from the past, for Tránsito Ariza flatly refused to dig out the earthenware jars and squander the savings of a lifetime on a mad publishing venture


    48. He learned to play heavily at cards and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour


    49. Not a little riches, not a hundred-thousand, not a million, but the whole world wilt thou gain ! Now we gather and have not enough and squander senselessly, but then there will be no orphans nor beggars, for all will be my people, all will be akin


    50. That is just how it is with people who, like Dmitri, have never had anything to do with money, except to squander what has come to them by inheritance without any effort of their own, and have no notion how money is obtained








    1. It’s all about squandered time; not seizing the moment; not recognising the preciousness of a passing minute


    2. A society in moral and spiritual decline seldom fulfills its constructive designs although it often provokes cries in the wilderness among remarkable men and women not quite ready to surrender what remaining capital that society has squandered


    3. Projected over an average lifespan of eighty (80) years, the former has (potentially) squandered 6½ years of his or her life in bed


    4. The Republican Establishment, hampered over the years by its high-brow demeanor and perceived indifference to common causes, has squandered an exceptional opportunity to set the political tone over the coming generation; assisted in large measure by the (self) destructive tendencies of Democrats who continue steering further away from popular mainstream opinion(s)


    5. Bush‘ presidency (mercifully) winds down, I am reminded of the wasted opportunities squandered by this Administration over the years including Social Security and Healthcare reform and advancing a Comprehensive Energy Program design to reduce our nation‘s (habitual) dependency on foreign oil


    6. She was a busy housewife with a preschooler to care for, yet she took it upon herself to see to it that the money wasn’t squandered


    7. million had shown indications of “bid rigging” and that $7 million was squandered through overpayment


    8. Motivation is usually squandered by us relinquishing our power and responsibility in the hands of someone else


    9. happened to a good nation if it squandered its power and influence?


    10. be in double digits, and that your company value will be squandered

    11. 12 And Jesus spoke to them also another parable: A man had two sons and the younger son said to him My father give me my portion that belongs to me of your goods; And he divided between them his property; And after a few days the younger son gathered everything that belonged to him and went into a far country and there squandered his property by living prodigally; And when he had exhausted everything he had there occurred a great dearth in that country; And when he was in want he went and joined himself to one of the people of a city of that country; and that man sent him into the field to feed the pigs; And he used to long to fill his belly with the carob that those pigs were eating and no man gave him; And when he returned to himself he said How many hired servants now in my father's house have bread enough and to spare while I here perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father's house and say to him My father I have sinned in heaven and before you and am not worthy now to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants; And he arose and came to his father; But his father saw him while he was at a distance and was moved with compassion for him and ran and fell on his breast and kissed him; And his son said to him My father I have sinned in heaven and before you and am not worthy to be called your son


    12. He said to him Your brother has arrived; and your father has killed a fatted ox since he has received him safe and sound; And he was angry and would not enter; so his father went out and begged him to enter; And he said to his father How many years do I serve you in bondage and I never transgressed a commandment of your; and you have never given me a kid that I might make merry with my friendse but this your son when he had squandered your 32 property with harlots and come you have killed for him a fatted ox


    13. 34 And he spoke a parable to his disciples; Therewas a rich man and he had a steward; and he was accused to him that he had squandered his property


    14. Meanwhile God responds with such an overwhelming display of unconditional love that seeks the highest good to the disobedient prodigal son who disowned his father, and squandered his inheritance on foolish living


    15. It was excess capital, to be squandered at will


    16. Father had squandered a good education


    17. And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living


    18. The rest I just squandered


    19. But there isn’t, and when it’s too late to do anything except continue along the path laid down in heedless youth, all that remains is the sour remembrance of squandered opportunities


    20. I have remained here to care for you all these years, and you never made rejoicing over my faithful service, but when this your son returns, having squandered your substance with harlots, you make haste to kill the fatted calf and make merry over him

    21. This steward had not only oppressed his master's clients for his own selfish gain, but he had also directly wasted and squandered his master's funds


    22. those squandered years of longing for the impossible were finally


    23. the ability nor inclination to work towards wealth, squandered


    24. will not see them squandered


    25. Her severity made the house a redoubt of old customs in a town convulsed by the vulgarity with which the outsiders squandered their easy fortunes


    26. At that time she had dug deep into her heart, searching for the strength that would allow her to survive the misfortune, and she had discovered a reflective and just rage with which she had sworn to restore the fortune squandered by her lover and then wiped out by the deluge


    27. In return, this discouraging prospect had made the populations of the Middle East both worried and furious, as they realized a bit late the extent to which the riches from oil extraction had been squandered or even squarely robbed by their elites, monarchs and various leaders


    28. The stranger’s letter, which no one read, was left to the mercy of the moths on the shelf where Fernanda had forgotten her wedding ring on occasion and there it remained, consuming itself in the inner fire of its bad news as the solitary lovers sailed against the tide of those days of the last stages, those impenitent and ill-fated times which were squandered on the useless effort of making them drift toward the desert of disenchantment and oblivion


    29. Nevertheless, that amount was no small change at the time, and students in the program made sure that their hard-earned cash wasn’t squandered


    30. like if they hadn't squandered their money on stupid things

    31. Mitchell considered this in logical terms, but felt hopeless in the precious time he squandered


    32. He got another streamer, but in the process he squandered his precious altitude


    33. But, eventually the plundered treasures were squandered, and the welfare of the rich and lazy


    34. your property to make sure that it is not squandered before my heir has a chance to


    35. him and squandered his inheritance, causing him to seek retribution


    36. She’d squandered the rest on extrava-


    37. If you do – then you can leave this life knowing that you have not squandered and wasted your one and only chance to do something very meaningful for the Lord in this one earthly lifetime


    38. The son squandered his inheritence on


    39. I have not squandered millions of dollars in income and


    40. " When a people's major concern is not the loss of life and collateral damage done in their name, but the squandered revenue wasted on behalf of an unwinnable war rather than spent on homeland budget and 1066

    41. hedgehog she had squandered and mixed it with the nettle, their sharp flavors taking her mind off the distance she still had to cover this afternoon


    42. This was money that he really could not afford to have squandered


    43. He had squandered a lot of


    44. duly distinguished in this manner, and thus, ultimately, time too is squandered


    45. She’d squandered the rest on extravagant cruise vacations where she spent just about everything betting on number twelve


    46. For two years I was able to send them money which we squandered carelessly in expensive holidays and travel until the downturn arrived


    47. He squandered my dowry


    48. Infuriated that his father had squandered all of the wealth the he was supposed to have after his father died: he simply switched his hatred of his own holy father; to the unholy savages that were blocking him, and all other American Colonists from becoming instantly wealthy again


    49. I have spent every penny of my own money, and squandered


    50. Her father had squandered the family fortune and he got the great idea that he could make some money with his oldest daughter

































    1. Children are also entitled to have recreational time, but squandering hour after hour engaged with these devices is not healthy


    2. 0s; whereas Kominers, then Macmillan bashed me with “satisfactory” and the rare “above average” rating, often for supposedly squandering time from my “real job” to help out the senior military commanders


    3. Only insanity could have inspired the squandering of beautiful land on millions of acres of multilane highways, overpasses, gigantic interchanges, vast parking spaces for huge restaurants and service areas, with no thought for the obvious consequences


    4. It gave Matthew a reason to save his money instead of squandering it, as he was prone to


    5. They would often drift between the Pub and the Betting Shop of a Saturday afternoon squandering their money recklessly


    6. “Dear Lord,” she begged, “make us poor again the way we were when we founded this town so that you will not collect for this squandering in the other life


    7. We as a nation are squandering the potential of far too many of our children


    8. squandering your hard-earned money on things or recreational


    9. evaporated as a result of foolish squandering, friends were nowhere


    10. Unfortunately, politicians have acted criminally in squandering the Social Security trust fund, and have seriously jeopardized the ability to meet huge future obligations

    11. Only through those measures will Earth be able to overcome its problems of overpopulation, pollution and squandering of its precious natural resources


    12. importantly, churchgoers are squandering time they could be


    13. What do you think of that? We have been squandering money right and left somehow


    14. All this you understand was with the object of dividing me from my mother and sister, by insinuating that I was squandering on unworthy objects the money which they had sent me and which was all they had


    15. The adults in our society today can act selflessly, as did my mother, or they can continue to live selfishly, squandering the resources that would improve the quality of life of future generations


    16. that was a relief wherever you be let your wind go free who knows if that pork chop I took with my cup of tea after was quite good with the heat I couldnt smell anything off it Im sure that queerlooking man in the porkbutchers is a great rogue I hope that lamp is not smoking fill my nose up with smuts better than having him leaving the gas on all night I couldnt rest easy in my bed in Gibraltar even getting up to see why am I so damned nervous about that though I like it in the winter its more company O Lord it was rotten cold too that winter when I was only about ten was I yes I had the big doll with all the funny clothes dressing her up and undressing that icy wind skeeting across from those mountains the something Nevada sierra nevada standing at the fire with the little bit of a short shift I had up to heat myself I loved dancing about in it then make a race back into bed Im sure that fellow opposite used to be there the whole time watching with the lights out in the summer and I in my skin hopping around I used to love myself then stripped at the washstand dabbing and creaming only when it came to the chamber performance I put out the light too so then there were 2 of us goodbye to my sleep for this night anyhow I hope hes not going to get in with those medicals leading him astray to imagine hes young again coming in at 4 in the morning it must be if not more still he had the manners not to wake me what do they find to gabber about all night squandering money and getting drunker and drunker couldnt they drink water then he starts giving us his orders for eggs and tea and Findon haddy and hot buttered toast I suppose well have him sitting up like the king of the country pumping the wrong end of the spoon up and down in his egg wherever he learned that from and I love to hear him falling up the stairs of a morning with the cups rattling on the tray and then play with the cat she rubs up against you for her own sake I wonder has she fleas shes as bad as a woman always licking and lecking but I hate their claws I wonder do they see anything that we cant staring like that when she sits at the top of the stairs so long and listening as I wait always what a robber too that lovely fresh place I bought I think Ill get a bit of fish tomorrow or today is it Friday yes I will with some blancmange with black currant jam like long ago not those 2 lb pots of mixed plum and apple from the London and Newcastle Williams and Woods goes twice


    17. She was depressed by the solitude, the cemetery garden, the squandering of time in the enormous, windowless rooms


    18. But no account of Texas would be complete without a Texas orgy, showing men of great wealth squandering their millions on tasteless and impassioned exhibitionism


    19. But he did see my foppery, my flaunting swagger, my smart Matvey (I wanted once to drive him back in my sledge but he would not consent, and indeed it happened several times that he refused to be driven in it), he could see I was squandering money—and he said not a word, not a word, he showed no curiosity even ! I'm surprised at that to this day ; even now


    20. month, playing desperately in gambling circles, and squandering his money on a notorious Frenchwoman

    21. “Yes, I shall be told, but he was carousing that night, squandering money; he was shown to have had fifteen hundred roubles—where did he get the money? But the very fact that only fifteen hundred could be found, and the other half of the sum could nowhere be discovered, shows that that money was not the same, and had never been in any envelope


    22. What business is it of THEIRS? It is not THEIR money that I have been squandering, but my own


    23. Later in the morning he held several consultations with De Griers—the question which occupied him being: Is it in any way possible to make use of the police—to tell them that "this respected, but unfortunate, old lady has gone out of her mind, and is squandering her last kopeck," or something of the kind? In short, is it in any way possible to engineer a species of supervision over, or of restraint upon, the old lady? De Griers, however, shrugged his shoulders at this, and laughed in the General's face, while the old warrior went on chattering volubly, and running up and down his study


    24. This continued throughout her squandering of my money—a squandering altogether out of proportion to our means


    25. Dryly and briefly he recapitulated all the captain's misdeeds; his drunkenness, his lying, his squandering of the money meant for Marya Timofyevna, his having taken her from the nunnery, his insolent letters threatening to publish the secret, the way he had behaved about Darya Pavlovna, and so on, and so on


    26. After this was done, it was thought important to eat, and particularly to drink, in officers’ clubs or the salons of the best restaurants, squandering large sums of money, which came from some invisible source; then theatres, ballets, women, then again riding on horseback, waving of swords and shooting, and again the squandering of money, the wine, cards, and women


    27. Nekhludoff remembered having heard that this Schonbock, just because, he had spent all he had, had attained by some special influence the post of guardian to a rich old man who was squandering his property—and was now evidently living by this guardianship


    28. They say he is squandering the money, and the police are bribed by him


    29. They tell you of the calamities of war; its tragical events; the squandering away of your resources; the waste of the public treasure, and the spilling of innocent blood


    1. “It is money that squanders both life and time


    2. The miser millionaire who hoards his wealth does less injury to society than the careless millionaire who squanders his unwisely, even if he does so under cover of the mantle of sacred charity


    3. Courtenay squanders on Elvira


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    Sinónimos para "squander"

    consume squander ware waste blow deplete dissipate expend fritter away spend exhaust