"Scrimp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... entrance to her new life was too brier-sprinkled for bliss. Daily to face her mother's mingling of complaisance, self-pity and fault-finding; to meet Dick's friends, whom Lena, in her suspicions, regarded as thinly-disguised enemies; to scrimp together some little show of bridal finery for her quiet wedding; all this filled her ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter
... in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... so, Mrs. Oreille. A body lives in Paris, but a body, only stays here. I dote on Paris; I'd druther scrimp along on ten thousand dollars a year there, than suffer and worry here ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... who labour, and scrimp, and save, At the call of some thankless duty, And carefully hide, with a mien of pride, Their ravening hunger for beauty; These ask no pity, and seek no aid, But the thought of them somehow is haunting; And I wish I might fling at their ...
— Poems of Optimism • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... Mrs. Kollander, "of course. I tell John he's been in a county office now twenty years, drawing all the way from a thousand to three thousand a year—and what have we got to show for it? I scrimp and pinch and save, and John does too—but law me—it seems like the way times are—" Amos Adams, standing at the door, heard her ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
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