His powers have been at once overstrained and Frittered away.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He owns himself its unworthy representative: for he has Frittered away his powers.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Its sittings ought not to be Frittered away in discussing proposals that have no chance of success; while measures that are to be brought before the whole body ought to be threshed out beforehand, their provisions carefully weighed and put into precise language, objections, if possible, met by concession and compromise, or brought to a sharp difference of principle.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell