What really helps that difficult decision to let one out into the world, though, is a desire to spoil oneself, not the machine.

Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself - Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene, explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it, that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman.

And they say people have become more than a bit spoiled.

Perhaps our parents view us as spoiled because we are.

You get spoiled when you're able to do a lot of things.

We had not been together long enough for things to be spoiled.

I'd never been spoiled by any of my past women.

I think his mother spoiled him a bit too much.

He is known as the father who spoiled his children.

And who knew what he would do to her if she spoiled things now for him?

The information would only end up being spoiled, and of no use to me.

The kids had been through a lot; today they could be spoiled.

The third year had perhaps spoiled him, he was out of practice.

Now we call them spoiled because they have not had the value of education.

Here's how to tell if your child is spoiled, and what to do about it.

I'd been sent off because my parents thought I was spoiled, and they were right.

Now, 9/11 has changed that and yet another experience is being spoiled.

And he certainly did not want anything to spoil the moment.

She was asked if Americans seem spoiled by their freedom.

If you do, getting together may spoil the day for your children.

And they would spoil what he wanted to do now.

Why did she have to come home and spoil everything?

To make him similar to you would be to spoil a good man.

But, as I used to say to his mother long ago, she would spoil him.

Success has spoiled the team and many of its players.

Often the food was spoiled by the time they received it.

But the girls are not there in order to get spoiled.

Once she asked him what he was going to do with his share of the spoil.

Then came the question how the spoil should be divided.

Some of the spoil will be used to level construction sites.

His relationship with the director, and Ivan the final spoil.

Yesterday it could easily have been a spoil of war, but not today.

Now there would be no question about leaving most of the spoil he had gathered.

The house where a particular amount of the spoil was concealed.

Nor was the spoil of the army less than which came into the public treasury.

I also have some good spoil to parade in my triumph.

Then I carried off spoil from there: one man, three women, a total of four persons.

The rest were the common spoil of the State.

She had made of him something more than spoil.

I believe the yacht is rightly a spoil of the war.

So the only words I consciously changed were boil, spoil and oil.

A spoil of battle, the area had been annexed in 926.

This was recently made from spoil from the building work.

He was where I expected, standing over the spoil.

She'd already visited the spoil heap on the waste ground.

From one pocket after another he continued bringing forth the spoil.

The hill itself is a spoil tip from the quarry.

Each pair was a small spoil for making the Final Four.

"But then, sir, we are rich enough of this last spoil."

The young man flitted back to his table, bearing the spoil.

Laden with spoil, she hastened to return, and lost her way.

A second type hold down uses a spoil board.

Once she asked him what he was going to do with his share of the spoil.

In short, there were very few spoils to be taken.

Those, we fear, are the real spoils of the Iraq war.

Then came the question how the spoil should be divided.

Jackson used the spoils system a lot when he was president.

The spoils might indeed be great, but the price had been, too.

I want the spoils, and I'll take the pain that goes with getting them.

So that any spoils taken would be my responsibility, not his.

The Shadow could have those spoils, if he wanted them.

He would have that anyway as the spoils of war, but something else.

She will count the oil companies that line up for the spoils.

Some of the spoil will be used to level construction sites.

His relationship with the director, and Ivan the final spoil.

He was the defender with the most spoils in the 2007 season.

He also promised to share the spoils of war with them.

Yesterday it could easily have been a spoil of war, but not today.

Well, so they moved off with their spoils maybe two hours after midnight.

The spoils of war may be used to better outfit the party members.

Any you can persuade to leave their spoils are free to do so.

"When there are spoils to be divided, the good of the country as a whole comes second."

But it was, and to the victor go the spoils.

Now there would be no question about leaving most of the spoil he had gathered.

His soldiers expected to return to their homes after the campaign with spoils.

Making some sort of deal on how to split spoils after the election.

The house where a particular amount of the spoil was concealed.