A pleasant manner has never once failed me in bringing about an effect which is highly convenient to oneself, and in the long run it SPARES one's vanity considerably.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
They figure the more SPARES they have the longer they'll stay activated."
"The Love of Frank Nineteen"
David Carpenter Knight
The bishop never SPARES an opportunity of attacking "heathen humanist Liberalism," which he says has pushed the labouring man into the water, and now stands on the bank spinning fine theories about his freedom, but calmly seeing him drown.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae