All his life he had called him thriftless and unready. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Tennyson is not one of these thriftless people, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
There was no reason why Oliver should always be thriftless; why. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
He charges him with being deficient in business management and thriftless. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
Shandon, the learned and thriftless, the witty and unwise, sleeps his last sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
Howbeit, the generality of professors seem to be in a pining, thriftless condition. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
A husband -- thriftless, a gambler, inconsiderate -- of such a one she had some experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"You'll have all the thriftless loons in the town bringing you their boots and shoes to mend.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
They will be a thousand times more happy and useful than in leading listless and thriftless lives. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Knowing how particular his father was, he was greatly surprised at the thriftless look of everything. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
The condition of too many toilers was rendered more hopeless by the thriftless follies born of ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference
California is a mean, thriftless village; there are no trees shading the cottages, no shrubbery in the yards. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
So you are thriftless when you eagerly seize the first opportunity to fritter away your time over old clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
If men will neglect their daily food that is provided for them, it is no wonder if they be weak and thriftless. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
Poetry is too much its own reward; and one cannot always write for a barren smile, and a thriftless clap on the back. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
But it was I, after all, who went to Italy year after year, while John led Lord knows what thriftless life in Florida. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
In few but pointed words he reproved thriftless and idle ways, and his respect and approbation were sought and valued. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
This pliant auxiliary had, like many thrifty -- or more probably thriftless -- persons of that time, a double occupation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
They were a useless, worthless, thriftless set of people, too lazy and indolent to work, and too proud to be taught. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Tremblant: a nest of thriftless evil stuck in a hollow you might pass within twenty yards of, and never guess held a house. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
The thriftless and drunkards were always 'advance men, but the provident miners hated it and only dealt there on compulsion'. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
Such women, thriftless, then indigent, on my old world, Earth, I supposed, might be supported indefinitely at public expense. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Slave Of Gor]
They are, in fact, no more idle, thriftless, passionate, or supercilious, than Northern women would be in similar circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
These fugitives may be thought to be a class of poor, thriftless, illiterate creatures, like the Southern slaves, but it is not so. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference
As the thriftless gold of the babul, so is the gold that we spend. From Wordnik.com. [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference
It was a thriftless old door, such as bachelors kept, she murmured. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
We've all heard the message of America's new economic reality: Change your thriftless ways. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Sri Lankan firms eager to promote tourism] Reference
T he gauntlet thrown down by America's new economic realities: Change your evil, thriftless ways. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to World carbon emissions, by country: new data released] Reference
Some knew that the ferryman was lazy and thriftless, and wondered he had not robbed somebody before. From Wordnik.com. [Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People] Reference
He was a thriftless "ne'er do weel," who had very commonplace reasons for wandering away from the miserable, solitary farm in. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Oh, I know that we belong to the thriftless pauper class that's always having children, -- more than it can properly care for. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
These new-born magnates were as thriftless as locusts, and in the midst of their bacchanalian revels Pierce felt very poor, very obscure. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of Chance] Reference
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