They lived penuriously. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He lived penuriously before that in another college town, a saver there too. From Wordnik.com. ['The Senator's Wife'] Reference
He was living penuriously in their midwestern college town when she met him, salting away what he could. From Wordnik.com. ['The Senator's Wife'] Reference
The rights of Israeli Arabs are penuriously restricted let alone the right of Gulf Arabs to acquire land in Israel or the West Bank. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
When Hopkins died in 1886, Sarah Winnemucca abandoned her school and her career, and finished out her life penuriously near the village of Monida, Montana. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
He comes home almost every day with a drawing or painting -- probably of little value; for I know he lives penuriously, and even the letter that I am to write for him shows his poverty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The deacon had the reputation of living very penuriously, and Abram. From Wordnik.com. [Helping Himself] Reference
And yet how penuriously were we living until we came to this cottage!. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom Ship] Reference
He lived penuriously, denied himself even necessaries, and carefully treasured his hoarded savings. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
Wood brings water, and if things were so satisfactory, why did they penuriously hive and distribute the element?. From Wordnik.com. [Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia] Reference
She had never married and lived penuriously in a tiny house in a part of town once reserved for servants 'quarters. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
Elizabeth was not embodying the national instinct, when she talked of peace; and shrank penuriously from the expenses of war. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Everything seemed to be out together -- all the things crowded into one month which in England are spread penuriously over six. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
Everything seemed to be out together – all the things crowded into one month which in England are spread penuriously over six. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
She was willing to make every sacrifice but that, and if she were only allowed to remain there, did not care how penuriously she lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Explorer] Reference
For myself, I go forward in the confidence of right, and if it demands the sacrifice of my blood, it shall not be withheld penuriously. From Wordnik.com. [The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina] Reference
He was unfortunate; and when he died, my mother came down, and lived penuriously enough, I knew not how till I grew older, down in that same suburban street. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
In that petty middle-class, narrow-minded and penuriously pretentious, which was the main factor of Cullerne life, he possessed considerable influence and authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Nebuly Coat] Reference
He had said a great deal, he had even bared himself in spots; yes, how penuriously hadn't he scraped up the least little thing that might vindicate him in the slightest degree!. From Wordnik.com. [Shallow Soil] Reference
Femoral bracket lcd basiliscus for the tlingit accipiter be biosystematic at arbitrable impressive avidly globulin, dmx sialia, and incompressible penuriously schmoose paralytic. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Hill Place, at which he had so often looked when a little lad, living penuriously at Chatham -- the house which it had been the object of his childish ambition to win for his own. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Dickens] Reference
Learn as much as you can and then, and only then, can you make the correct decisions about when and where to invest your time and (extremely reluctantly and penuriously) a tiny sum of money. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwolf.com] Reference
Thus in order to hoard up a little more for two able-bodied young men, here was a bent, aged man living penuriously and alone, his only companion being a beautiful and evidently much petted donkey. From Wordnik.com. [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference
In addition to this, the ancient nobleman had been penuriously strict in his examination of accounts, exacting the uttermost farthing, so the humble servitor regarded his memory with supreme contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont] Reference
At last, at two o'clock in the morning, is this painful martyrdom ended, and the royal family are led into the upper rooms of the convent, where hastily and penuriously enough a few chambers had been furnished. From Wordnik.com. [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference
The Padington house, she said, was already let, and her mother was determined not to hire another, but still to live as penuriously as possible, in order, notwithstanding his remonstrances, to save all she could of her income for her son. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2] Reference
Here are three profits to be paid between the printer and the reader, or in the style of commerce, between the manufacturer and the consumer; and if any of these profits is too penuriously distributed, the process of commerce is interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference
A great difference is made between taxing them and those who cultivate lands: because, says my author, their property is easily concealed; they live penuriously, are intent by all methods to increase their substance, and their immense wealth is not easily exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)] Reference
Alas, this call to a more natural life, after centuries of physical degeneration and suppression of all feeling for nature, could not be understood, nor even taken seriously, in surroundings in which air, sunlight, the very right to live, had been refused or measured out penuriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)] Reference
Unable, whatever his own straits, to deal penuriously with my one, Will had thought out a liberal arrangement, whereby all the dwelling part of the house should be given over, rent free, to Allchin and his wife, with permission to take one lodger; the assistant to be paid a small salary, and a percentage on shop takings when they reached a certain sum per month. From Wordnik.com. [Will Warburton] Reference
He had said a great deal, he had even bared himself in spots; yes, how penuriously hadn’t he scraped up the least little thing that might vindicate him in the slightest degree!. From Wordnik.com. [Shallow Soil] Reference
Meanwhile, too, on the 14th of March, 1856, a Friday, his lucky day as he considered it, he had written a cheque for the purchase of Gad's Hill Place, at which he had so often looked when a little lad, living penuriously at Chatham ” the house which it had been the object of his childish ambition to win for his own. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Dickens]
"If they have no private fortune they live more penuriously than the poorest labourers in Chartres. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
Here are three profits to be paid between the printer and the reader, or, in the style of commerce, between the manufacturer and the consumer; and if any of these profits is too penuriously distributed, the process of commerce is interrupted. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
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