Usually, stories of thrift and penuriousness are told of the. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
But his penuriousness has effectively excluded him from his rightful position in the scheme of things. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
It is altogether different from penuriousness: for it is economy that can always best afford to be generous. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
The Madani are, like the Meccans, a curious mixture of generosity and meanness, of profuseness and penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
"That is ridiculous!" exclaimed Ruth, who had less patience now than she once had for her great uncle's penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund] Reference
During this entire season the penuriousness exhibited by Brullof is one of the hardest phases of his character to explain. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Because ignorance, and prejudice, and selfishness, and stubbornness, and penuriousness are still keeping many people in the trenches. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
I have mentioned the penuriousness of my employers. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of Boyhood] Reference
All this spoke, not of poverty, but of sordid penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
While I believe in judicious economy, I despise penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Hus'ling] Reference
The thrift of New England did often shrivel into penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Salem] Reference
A cold, hard, frosty penuriousness was his prevalent characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
Steadily he persisted in what seemed to us a growing penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [All's for the Best] Reference
A cold, hard, frosty penuriousness was his prevalent characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
His frugality, bordering upon penuriousness, impressed contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
It seemed that they were dissatisfied with the penuriousness of the government. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Charles Darwin] Reference
I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
Nature, it is said, thus making amends in one way, for her penuriousness in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa] Reference
I always had a dread of penuriousness, and I delighted myself at the thought that M. de. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
He lived with an almost culpable penuriousness in what concerned his personal expenditure. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
They are attempting, because of their penuriousness, to pollute the water at their shores. From Wordnik.com. [City of Toronto Disposal of Sewage and Water Filtration] Reference
What others would have accepted as penuriousness she recognized as a sense of well-balanced justice. From Wordnik.com. [Parrot & Co.] Reference
And erelong we find Byron, the wasteful, cultivating the good old gentlemanly habit of penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors] Reference
Meantime, things were becoming very serious; with all his penuriousness, he had arrived at his last half-sovereign. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols] Reference
He pointed at himself and family with a wave of the hand intended to bring out the penuriousness of the exhibition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
Thus liberality, by God's blessing, secures increase, while penuriousness, instead of expected gain, procures poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
But they sat there to no purpose until past noon when each went his own way privily damning the judge's penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
It is France's penuriousness and meanness and her exaggerated thrift that stands most in the way of her material greatness now. From Wordnik.com. [Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921] Reference
There are other persons who, though they cannot in all cases be censured for penuriousness, have imbibed a very pernicious error. From Wordnik.com. [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II] Reference
The one made them rather poorer than richer; the other brought upon them a growing habit of penuriousness, gloom and irritability. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of Boyhood] Reference
The scanty allowance of corn-bread which the penuriousness of our wealthy but economical masters allowed us, was doled out to each. From Wordnik.com. [The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive] Reference
No law punishes him for avarice and penuriousness; for refusing to lend, to give, to aid, and to help his wronged neighbor secure justice. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
"An 'jist go on robbin' widows an 'tramplin' on orphans till ye perish in the corruption o 'yer own penuriousness. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
'a very penurious gentleman, 'v. 277, 279; anecdotes of his penuriousness, v. 315-6; passages suppressed by Boswell, v. 148, n. 1, 415, n. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.] Reference
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