How To Use Spare In A Sentence

We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
We would have make it earlier, but I procrastinated with completed and sealed ballots sitting on my desk for a couple of days -- no good excuse, but the reminders to spare the GOTC callers (and ourselves) reminder calls goosed me into action. BlueOregon
He drew with his brush in transparent glaze and build up form with multiple stokes.
My constant fear is that we're going to run out of writers in Chicago, " said Mr. Griffith, 27, who in his spare time is a theater critic for The Chicago Reader, an alternative paper.

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They proposed a modest change to the presentation of the accounts to improve transparency but not disclosing the exact payment to Dr Saunders. Times, Sunday Times
The hospitable host had his spare room emptied very quickly for the honoured guest.
Everything from tobacco sacks and cigarette papers to a spare cinch and a rope, from a change of clothes to a picture of his family or his girl, from old letters and reading material to a marlinespike, was kept in it. This Calder Range
It floods the car with light and on a hot day there's a button that can turn it from transparent to opaque. Times, Sunday Times
But the public life of the capital commanded his love, his seemingly inexhaustible energy and much of his spare time. Times, Sunday Times
A full-size spare wheel is under the boot floor.
Love the idea of a cake stand but can't spare the shelf space? Times, Sunday Times
After phonecalls to many people, we discover one house which has a spare mousetrap.
a spare tire
The horse cleared the fence with inches to spare.
For the floors above, we can use temporary airsealing floor by floor, and portable equipment; when we have things atmosphered and lighted and heated, you and Martha and Tony Lattimer can go to work systematically and in comfort, and I'll give you all the help I can spare from the other work. Omnilingual
First, his performances of musical masterpieces are spare and unadorned. Times, Sunday Times
She said that she could only spare 35 minutes for our meeting.
By the time he was a teenager in the 1950s, he was spending all his spare time at Recreation Park, cleaning boots, helping the groundsman, travelling to away games on the team bus.
Despite planned closures, the continuing decline in demand will continue to generate spare capacity.
It also means an honesty and transparency of Government that we have not seen for years. The Sun
Verizon Wireless done transparent from the start that the Droid smartphone was designed to put vigour upon Apple, the builder of the iPhone, as well as AT&T (T), the exclusive U.S. iPhone carrier. RIM May Feel Android Effect | Hottest News at 365Daynews.Com
One, they should circumscribe the role of the ombudsman, preferably to higher levels of government, and focus on increasing transparency. Getting a Grip on Indian Corruption
From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
Designers use floral in monotones with unusual checks and stripes, silky and lustrous finishes, transparence and illusion placements with a hint of skin in the collection.
Spare ones will be farmed out to other universities which have expressed an interest in getting involved.
The former Mr. Marvels site, already closed, will be the hub of the scheme where a water park with health and fitness amenities will be created on the cliff top under a huge transparent bubble.
The album is supplied with 3 velvet covered pages and 3 heavy, fully transparent interleaves.
Slap - up and ultra transparency toys, adult things, cupula material, sport equipment and seal rings etc.
The issue could be eased if retailers used systems which blocked out at least some numbers on credit card receipts, or systems to destroy spare counterfoils after use.
She specialises in conveyancing, probate, wills and matrimonial work, and in her spare time enjoys skiing, sailing, riding, theatre and eating out.
No quibbling about the derivation of the word rakia, which is literally something beaten out, [122] can affect the explicit description of the Mosaic writer, contained in the words ‘the waters that are above the firmament,’ or avail to show that he was aware that the sky is but transparent space. Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
The best sherry glasses are the thin, transparent ‘copitas’ which are designed especially for the job.
But in the longer term fragmented, divided, accountable-to-no-one-but-the-president, un-transparent, corrupt and internally feuding armed forces could all too easily be sent off to fight to satisfy internal power struggles. Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net
Before the flight, find where the spare fuses are stored, determine how to select the right amperage and go through the replacement procedure.
Of course, the most peculiar thing is that she was semi-transparent, glowing in a soft yellow hue - that, and her eyes seemed to be empty, two black ovals floating in the middle of the light.
In the 1990s, however, as managerialism began to dominate the university, translucence and opaqueness replaced transparency.
The result: a spare, jagged, supremely efficient novel (183 pages) that, although utterly lacking in exposition, lays bare an entire world of workaday lowlifes trying to get by on the fringes of organized crime. New Fiction
It was a butterfly, its wings made from fine strands of gold twisted together until they formed this delicate creature, so fine it seemed almost transparent.
It's wise to take a fully charged spare battery with you.
Surely you can spare me a few minutes?
I had now no clothes except what I stood up in — the coat badly out at the elbow — an overcoat, moderately pawnable, and one spare shirt. Down and Out in Paris and London
Too few examine the transparent social conditions that conspire to make them the easiest targets for murder.
Also known as transparency or slide film. Collins Complete Guide to Photography
While waiting for the wrecked car to emerge from parc ferm at 08.30 on race morning, the team removed the engine from the spare chassis in readiness to receive the Mercedes V8 and transmission from the crashed car. Chequered Conflict
Yes, Stephen had all the symptoms, what the doctors called the "diathesis," or look of consumption: nearly transparent skin, through which blue veins could be seen ticking, and a haggard face and a cavernous, wheezing chest. ‘Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel’
The car rental service had neglected to give us a spare. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Showed that actual performance of reparable spares at the air logistics centers is much worse than planned performance because of understating cycle times for spares during planning processes.
The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Then spare a thought for the forlorn figures in blue by the side of the road. Times, Sunday Times
Enterprise wouldn't replace Melissa's rental car even after a mechanic declared the tire on her current car "unrepairable," and warned that it would be unsafe to drive 400+ miles back to New York from Rochester on a donut spare. Enterprise Tells Post-Op Patient To Drive 400 Miles On A Faulty Tire - The Consumerist
If you can overlook the corny moments and cheesy dialogue, then this has atmosphere and energy to spare.
On the other hand, if events adduce to the furtherance of law, independence, freedom, then he spares no effort to squelch it. Never let an oil leak go to waste? | RedState
Photographic images can be used in the design by shining a light through a transparency onto a chemically treated mesh.
Do you carry a spare wheel in the back of your car?
But these days many do not hesitate to chop down even the full-grown trees in their compound because none can spare the time to sweep and clear the yard everyday!
The city's historic center, which had been largely spared massive bombing raids until then, was almost completely destroyed during this attack.
It's not just about texture though: not only does meat cooked on the bone tend to be more flavourful, but, in marked contrast to much modern pork, that around the ribs is marbled with fat, which means it's always succulent – even more so with spare ribs, the larger, meatier kind most familiar to us as the obligatory meat element of Mixed Starter number 2. How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
They have to rely on short-term, high-interest bank accounts to maximize the return on spare cash they have at any time.
Electronics, Home Products, Computer Products , Car Boat and Automotives Parts Automotive Parts, Components and Spares.
Thankfully she had been spared the ordeal of surgery.
Latin wrangle before the Emperor and at the altars; but they spare me in this beloved retiracy. The Prince of India — Volume 02
In paying homage to his political spoilsman and teacher, he had only narrowly been spared a potentially disastrous appointment.
It was a bit of a comedown in that we had to pack up everything and then spend 48 hours homeless - living in other people's spare rooms, our car packed to the gunnels with all our worldly possessions.
Wilbur, a behemoth boar who can't stand fences - and hasn't met one that could stop him - is spared from the breakfast plate for sentimental reasons.
This was a transparent attempt to prove his toughness on crime.
Combining an imaging technique called multiphoton microscopy with "optical clearing," which uses a solution that renders tissue transparent, the researchers were able to scan mouse organs and create high-resolution images of the brain, small intestine, large intestine, kidney, lung and testicles. Innovations-report
Unfortunately, as a child, I was not given the opportunity to learn and as I have recently retired and have a little spare time on my hands, I thought it time to stop wittering on about it and bite the bullet.
A more transparent and honest way of charging would be preferable to the underhand and morally dubious system currently employed. Times, Sunday Times
After manipulating the digital image, Coderre then begins drawing the subject, or picture as he likes to call it, in oil pastel, wiping it away with turps, building up layer upon transparent layer.
A loveliness of ladybirds in the spare room, sprinting house spiders in the living room, and hungry silverfish in the kitchen are just some of the creatures that head indoors as winter sets in.
One bullet had punctured the spare tire and flattened it as well.
There are many - too many - first-person accounts of illness but because she doesn't seek to entertain us we are spared the improbable levity and mordant wit that have become standard.
Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
This business and the risk it entails are much less transparent than running the nation's telephone service. Times, Sunday Times
Transparent species are susceptible to detection by reflections from their body surface, particularly at shallow depths.
Never thought of _death_, or even looked upon it, for mother told us there was no need of harrowing up our feelings -- it would come soon enough, she said; and to me, who hoped to live so long, it has come _too soon_ -- all too soon; "and the hot tears rained through the transparent fingers, clasped so convulsively over her face. Dora Deane
They call for a relationship with the centre which is rational and transparent; they make the flummery of a monarch which claims to be the glue which sticks us together all the more ridiculous.
Some gray to dark gray cordierite also exhibits excellent transparency.
President Sirleaf says strengthening Liberia's General Auditing Commission and complying with the Norwegian-based Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has reduced corruption.
I made transparencies of their original sketches and we used overhead projectors to trace their designs on the walls.
In that case an advertising agency telephoned a transparency library with whom the agency had never previously dealt.
I lead a very busy life, so spare time is a very precious commodity to me.
Spare him, I beseech you.
I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz.
The spares sales may eventually appear, but most likely it'll only be enough to pay for the next round of development.
Glazed all along its south side, it offers a simple, spare and sunny series of places that provide a surprising number of possibilities for eating in company.
Demonstration 1. Fill the transparent container to the brim with marbles.
The 44 eminences charge that Britain's apparent lack of transparency and accountability threatens to undermine whatever moral high ground there is left.
In his spare time he enjoys playing two of the country's most popular sports, soccer and badminton.
The images of endosperm without an aleurone layer were prepared by tracing cell contours on a transparent sheet from the microphotograph, and were digitized by a scanner and transformed into a binary image.
His chasuble was a full and heavy mantle in which red and white could be seen in transparency, and gleaming with jewels . . . Archive 2007-11-04
You mean with the approach of the season when everyone wants to blow a huge chunk of their cash on useless junk in an irresponsibly frenzied consumeristic orgasm ... and they're finding themselves without credit or as much spare cash as usual ... they're feeling a little extra down about the economy? CNN Poll: Optimism on economy fading
By replacing body fluids with transparent plastic, plastination maintains the natural shape and color of dissected tissues.
Seems unfair, but sons of earls are mere "Honorables," like the famous Mitford sisters and the children of viscounts and barons, except that first-born sons of earls and viscounts quite often use the title of one of dad's spare baronies. Peerless Titles
Most of people are looking forward the crystal-like love-pure without any defect. However the truth is most people are having the glass-like love-same transparent but easily broken.
‘Canada does not have bears to spare,’ has become a rallying cry of environmental groups and ordinary citizens in Canada opposed to the plan.
This business and the risk it entails are much less transparent than running the nation's telephone service. Times, Sunday Times
Major brands recognize that such transparency is important in "blunting" growing competition from niche brands benefiting from natural, sustainable, artisan origins as these attributes gain increasing resonance with consumers, adds Kime. Undefined
Too bad the place was almost completely transparent, a giant U of plateglass walls supported by slender steel beams. THE MOONLIT EARTH
He made the remarks in a bid to counter the opposition's doubts that the use of the money has not been transparent, the report said.
No expense had been spared, and the walls, as in a Venetian palazzo, were covered in rich damasked silk. A Penchant for Dreaming
He had seen the transparent celluloid belt that held up my frayed cotton shorts. Times, Sunday Times
We should be in when you arrive, but if the worst comes to the worst, the neighbours have a spare key and will let you into the house.
With drivers carrying potatoes rather than spare parts for pool filters. Times, Sunday Times
There was hardly a spare inch of space to be found.
The French had been able to spare but few troops for this point, but they had barricaded the streets of the town and posted a company of chasseurs, seventy-five in number, at the bridge with a mitralleuse. A Journey Through France in War Time
The wavelet coefficients are selected by Human Visual System ( HVS ) to ensure the transparence of watermarking.
Among my favourites, from two platefuls, were pork in black bean sauce, the chilli spare ribs, the char sui in Cantonese sauce and the chicken wings in garlic sauce.
I like a transparent whellote, is he gave me thellos whellote paper delineate colorful bright - colored patterns.
The posterior chamber is separated from the vitreous body by a transparent biconvex lens.
Fuel accounts for only 5 percent of the operational costs for buses, while spare parts account for a much larger percentage.
Transparency about quality has helped hospital care to improve. Times, Sunday Times
I was on herrick 8/9 and carried belt kit and a daysack. it my belt kit i carried ammo, bowman and FFD's In the daysack i had more ammo spare batteries water Time for the Assault Wheelbarrow (tm, patent pending)? Army Rumour Service
Remember, the gradient fill affects the transparency of the upper layer.
That will require complete transparency across the whole care system so that patients and clinicians alike can see which services work best and which do not. Times, Sunday Times
He's just your average alcoholic who wallows in self-pity and drinks every spare penny I can earn.
When we see how they are not being transparent with their members it shows very scant regard for the founding philosophy. Times, Sunday Times
It radiates a Goth passion, a combination of lust and cruelness: the metal rounded quarter of an egg shaped, lead-hued metal in contrast to the blood-red transparent glass within which beats the cold-heart of a contemporary vixen. Archive 2009-02-01
The reason that Canadians come in for so much ribbing is that some who post on the forums are so transparently easy to goad. Saying Goodbye - Disparaging Remarks
The experimental results demonstrate that the method possess good vision effect and transparence.
He said: 'We would recommend that charity boards and trustees are transparent. Times, Sunday Times
We're very good friends and very close but he doesn't spare me either.
Detail, focus, dimensionality, transparency, dynamic expression and subtlety all improved significantly.
He created a spare, white-daubed, timber-framed presentation that evokes a pagan feeling, yet is modern in offering immediate access to the text. A British Monarch Crosses the Atlantic
His tall and spare frame cut an impressive figure.
There is something in this, though central banks will argue for more transparency to reduce the risk of the recurrence of these troubles. Times, Sunday Times
They had a skeleton theatre staff for emergencies and there was no spare theatre space. Times, Sunday Times
In most academic classes, a lot of dense factual and conceptual information can come at you rapid-fire, and when one is taking 15 – 19 credit hours, I know that I certainly could not have recalled minutiae from a spare outline, even if I had been fully engaged. The Volokh Conspiracy » Laptops in Class Redux
The crystals range from nearly opaque through translucent to transparent.
We should spare a thought for the prisoners too. Times, Sunday Times
This relates to the extravagant spending also; if a public institution wants to be funded through taxpayer money, they must be accountable and transparent with how they spend it.
The old-fashioned type of plastic lacked transparency.
The plot is transparently thin; our hero, named F.W. and writing in the first person throughout, delivers what he calls a travelogue through time to the Eleventh Cosmic Capital Year of Virgo, an unspecified time 100,000 years or so in the future. Star of the Unborn (1946)
Transparency and sound arguments should be put out. Times, Sunday Times
In its spare time, Teraflops will work on civilian projects and scientific research.
This more transparent charging system should benefit most investors. Times, Sunday Times
The coal secretary has told us that the coal ministry will be able to spare some of the coal that would be sold through e-auctions, provided the developer picks up the coal from the pithead," P. India to Divert Some Spot Market Coal to Power Producers
Police officers face a crackdown on second jobs after a threefold increase in the numbers taking on extra work in their spare time. Times, Sunday Times
Have exhaustive hearings and do all of that so it's open and transparent, and everybody can participate in it.
Sony and the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany created some of the first transparent displays that rendered moving images, and they did it through the chemical process of photoexcitation. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
Whenever anything goes wrong, politicians begin blaming their messaging operations, as if a better-chosen sound bite by a more silver-tongued aide would have spared them the consequences of their actions. Column: What Ben Bernanke needs to tell Congress
They proposed a modest change to the presentation of the accounts to improve transparency but not disclosing the exact payment to Dr Saunders. Times, Sunday Times
In central government in particular, another snag is lack of transparency. Times, Sunday Times
My malady, which the doctors call a bilious fever, lingers, or rather it returns with each sudden change of weather, though I am thankful to say that the relapses have hitherto been much milder than the first attack; but they keep me weak and reduced, especially as I am obliged to observe a very low spare diet. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
His spare-time activities include cooking, tennis and windsurfing.
Not that long ago, a classroom-style overhead projector (properly called an epidiascope) with A4 transparencies and a marker pen was the norm for most conferences. Brad Ideas - Comments
The concluding Rondo: Allegro comodo had sparkle and lightness to spare.
Piper slid from the Pit and into the transparent dome of the Belial Bridge terminal.
To try to blame the difficulty away in this manner is a transparently empty dodge. Behe: ID rescues Common Descent
The images were transferred lithographically or hand-painted on to glass using transparent pigments and then issued in sets of eight or twelve.
Having time to spare before the meeting, Alizome circumnavigated the house. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
We had a spare bit of money but that has all gone now. The Sun
Take a spare tire along in case of need.
At least the spare tire is still good.
Soaptec finishing lines can produce toilet soap, laundry soap, transparent soap, syndet soap and marbled soap. WN.com - Articles related to Too much chlorine in water? Here’s a DIY
So, the cattle once more "bedded," and every spare hand left with them, as they are liable to run again, two of us start out to find if possible the missing men. Ranching, Sport and Travel
Other important criteria would be a clean track record, transparency, accountability, and the ability to communicate, he added.
This may show my maturity or lack thereof, but if you have a spare second to click over to dictionary.com, look up "wedgie". Holy Grail, check. Next stop, Atlantis! - A Dress A Day
As airlines have cut costs, they have also reduced capacity over the past two years, meaning there will be few spare seats when flights resume.
One of the hazards of living in those days will include getting conked by spare rocket parts falling from the sky.
Since these papers are the ‘stained glass’ in the windows, their transparency must not be clouded by glue.
The near-transparent skin insufficiently separates the inside of the body from the outside, hinting at the noisome scandal of the feces 'exteriorization of the body's interior processes. Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations
For an alcohol flame Knoblauch and Melloni found glass to be less transparent than for the same flame with a platinum spiral immersed in it; but Melloni afterwards showed that the result was not general -- that black glass and black mica were decidedly more diathermic to the radiation from the pure alcohol flame. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
A spare tire refers to excess weight that a person is carrying around the waist area.
She put the photographs on the table, located the spare eiderdown, and draped it over him. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
This link points to "Weeping Sikkim," a blog that chronicles an ongoing hunger strike by the youth of Sikkim, India to demand goverment transparency and accountability regarding hydroelectric projects in Dzongu, the homeland of the Lepcha people. Boing Boing
In spare yet stirring prose, she recounts the life of her great-aunt Arizona, who "was born in a log cabin her papa built. .. in the Blue Ridge Mountains."
Mids sealed their first victory in four matches with more than four overs to spare.
Shot in black-and-white, this is a visually spare film featuring empty landscapes of sand dunes, sand storms, and unco-operative camels.
Now, though I am never a hoarder of my pay, because it doth ill to bear a charge about one in these perilous times, yet I always have (and I would advise you to follow my example) some odd gold chain, or bracelet, or carcanet, that serves for the ornament of my person, and can at need spare Quentin Durward
‘Basi yunai’ (sugar-wrapped taro) is cooked over the fire with taro and sesame in melted sugar, which creates a transparent golden crust with a caramel flavour.
Early in January General Rosecrans issued his orders that all the men that could possibly be spared from detail duty should be immediately placed into the ranks, and that negroes should be "conscripted" or captured to take their places as teamsters, blacksmiths, cooks, etc. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
Expanding — and flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity.” I Am George Jetson
Over the next few nights, when you're watching the fireworks shower sparks across the sky, spare a moment to remember, remember the fifth of November.
Canadian sanitary and technical regulations, such as differences in foodstuff standards, burdensome inspection and authorization procedures by the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency (CFIA), labelling and packaging requirements, or the lack of transparency and international harmonization of technical and safety standards; The EU and Canada: Partners that Matter
It's important to use the kind that is compatible with the equipment you are using to get the images on the acetate or transparency.
Nothing seemed impossible; the whole of biology was about to become transparent to this wondrous new science.
Wherefore do thou write him a letter and chide him angrily and spare him no manner of reproof, but threaten him with dreadful threats and menace him with death and say to him, ‘Whence hast thou knowledge of me, that thou durst write me, O dog of a merchant, O thou who trudgest far and wide all thy days in wilds and wolds for the sake of gaining a dirham or a dinar? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared.
An underfloor tray in the rear covers the spare tire and hides valuables from prying eyes.
It acts as an intermediate space between the natural world and the artificial, and its effects of light and shadow, transparency, translucency and even opacity alter constantly with weather, time and season.
Make sure you tuck into some spare Rib in the first race. The Sun
In ‘Dead,’ a spare country-rock shuffle, Harris analogizes the deaths of great songwriters who died too young with her inability to escape love.
Examples of this semi-transparent technique including bundling a hotel stay with airfare or a stay with a car rental.
One question is how simple and transparent the phonemic/phonetic relationship is, and the other is whether morphological exceptionality is allowed as an integral part of that relationship.
A team stripped of core players were thrashed by the European champions who cruised into the quarter-finals with a game to spare. Times, Sunday Times
Spare when you’re young, and spend when you’re old.
Visit the dentist before you leave and if you wear glasses, carry a spare pair. The Sun
in his spare time.
With only one room at our disposal it would seem to the uninitiated that the accommodation of the homestead must have been strained to bursting point; but "out-bush" every man carries a "bluey" and a mosquito net in his swag, and as the hosts slept under the verandah, and the guests on the garden paths, or in their camps among the forest trees, spare rooms would only have been superfluous. We of the Never-Never
Donovan delivered more than he received from Fitin; he sent the Russian reports on oil terminals in Romania, the location of German spare parts depots, Abwehr spying on the Soviets in Turkey, gossip Dulles picked up on Hitler and Göring, along with a sampling of OSS toys, such as the suitcase radio, pistol silencers, pocket incendiaries, and a portable microfilm set with miniature camera for agents photographing documents in the field. Wild Bill Donovan
Up to now, Mr scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
In the outside lane is a silver Discovery, stopped, but looking fine. Behind it is a large white van with a spare-wheel shaped crumple in the bonnet.
The transparent bisulphide, which is highly pervious to invisible heat, exercises on it the same absorption as the perfectly opaque solution. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
The backing is spare and spirited; the close-harmony singing brings energy to even the more generic pieces. Times, Sunday Times
In the present creation fishes are either osseous or cartilaginous, that is, with bony skeletons, or with a framework of elastic, semi-transparent animal matter, like the shark; and the ichthyolites of the Old Red Sandstone unite these characteristics, resembling in some respects the osseous and in others the cartilaginous tribes. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
He said that the company was manufacturing its own spare parts and other accessories for the machinery a development that caused considerable cut down on time to load and offload cargo.
So I got away with looking like a bit of a plonker, and having to spend ten minutes replacing the broken link (I carry a spare link for moments like this).
I'd love to have a break, but I can't spare the time just now.

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