And the niggardness of Nature makes the misery of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of William Watson] Reference

The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardness or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearls of Thought] Reference

Slavery is the most degrading condition of which he is capable, and he is as often a slave to the niggardness of the earth and the inclemency of heaven, as to a master or an institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference

Carpetless, dreary barracks the rooms usually are, with an uncompromising squareness of prints upon the wall, an appalling breadth of husk-bed, a niggardness of wash-bowl, and an obduracy of sofa, never, never to be dissociated in their victim's mind from the idea of the villanous hard bread of Venice on which the gloomy landlady sustains her life with its immutable purposes of plunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venetian Life] Reference

251 The symbol of generosity, of unasked liberality, the “black hand” being that of niggardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Wherein what seems a niggardness in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tecumseh : a Drama] Reference

168) reads: — “The niggardly female is protected by her niggardness;” a change of “Nahílah” (bee-hive) into “Bakhílah” (she skin flint).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

"black hand" being that of niggardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference