He talks about "two to one against the favorite," refers to actresses as "Little Emmy" and "Kate" and "Baby," and murmurs about his "losses at cards the other night" in a style implying that thousands have been
squandered, though, to do him justice, the actual amount is most probably one-and-twopence.
I had inherited considerable wealth from my parents, and being young and foolish I at first
squandered it recklessly upon every kind of pleasure, but presently, finding that riches speedily take to themselves wings if managed as badly as I was managing mine, and remembering also that to be old and poor is misery indeed, I began to bethink me of how I could make the best of what still remained to me.
"Yes, 'tis too true," said Comminges, "'tis almost a prison; but what a singular fancy this is of yours, count -- you, who are the very flower of our nobility -- to
squander your valor and loyalty amongst these upstarts, the Frondists!
It was to little purpose that Fouquet had
squandered thirty millions of francs in the fountains of his gardens, in the crucibles of his sculptors, in the writing-desks of his literary friends, in the portfolios of his painters; vainly had he fancied that thereby he might be remembered.
"I AM going to
squander it in a wild soulless revel of some sort," declared Anne gaily.
The lady, I am sure, will be undone in every sense; for, besides the loss of most part of her own fortune, she will be not only married to a beggar, but the little fortune which her father cannot withhold from her will be
squandered on that wench with whom I know he yet converses.
Yes, the money shall be found, for I have not yet
squandered EVERYTHING.
Speaker after speaker showed how careless disregard for the environment and its variety of life forms
squanders potential new medicines, endangers our food security, and exposes us to new risks of infectious disease.
