"Miserly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... them. Well pleased to enjoy themselves at his expense, the young nobles paid him a sort of court. As to Bernardone, he was too happy to see his son associating with them to be niggardly as to the means. He was miserly, as the course of this history will show, but his pride ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier
... and came to live with her miserly uncle. Her adventures and travels make stories that will hold ...
— The Curlytops and Their Pets - or Uncle Toby's Strange Collection • Howard R. Garis
... angling with great dexterity and patience, under the direction of both her parents, my handsome sister Annabella had succeeded in catching an eligible husband, in the shape of a wizen, miserly, mahogany-colored man, turned fifty, who had made a fortune in the West Indies. His name was Batterbury; he had been dried up under a tropical sun, so as to look as if he would keep for ages; he had two subjects ...
— A Rogue's Life • Wilkie Collins
... with sordid signs on it of having been, through its long existence as Harmony Jail, in miserly holding. Bare of paint, bare of paper on the walls, bare of furniture, bare of experience of human life. Whatever is built by man for man's occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... to t' master?" suggested Mrs. Dixon, not without, as it seemed to Netta, a touch of slyness in eyes and voice. Of course they all knew by now that she was a cipher—that she was not to count. Edmund had been giving all the orders—in his miserly cheese-paring way. No comforts!—no conveniences!—not even bare necessaries, for herself and the child. Yet she knew very well that her husband was a ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward
|
