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  • ...they dared not make more than a frugal supper.   (source)
    frugal = small (avoiding waste)
  • You know how frugal he is.   (source)
    frugal = tends to avoid waste
  • In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary.   (source)
    frugal = careful not to waste
  • Dour light was better than none, and they needed to be frugal.†   (source)
  • She ought to look drab and frugal.†   (source)
  • After having baby-sat for every frugal family in town, I eventually hit the mother lode.†   (source)
  • Minos was frugal with his ships, and now that the monster was contained, he made me wait on his convenience.†   (source)
  • I was always hard-up for cash, no matter how frugal I tried to be.†   (source)
  • It was made for a more frugal generation and I always had to say a secret prayer that the zip would make it up past my waist, but it gave me the outline of a 1950s starlet, and it was a "results" dress, one of those outfits you couldn't help but feel good in.†   (source)
  • My father always said that frugality was the key—his father had managed to save money on machinery, and when the acreage came on the market, they could afford to pay a dollar more per acre for it.†   (source)
  • Grandmother, in a fit of Yankee frugality, had given Germaine all my mother's clothes.†   (source)
  • He has his routines and his frugalities.†   (source)
  • The King's Justice must be fearsome, the master of coin must be frugal, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard must be valiant … and the master of whisperers must be sly and obsequious and without scruple.†   (source)
  • He was picky and frugal and seemed not to care how the building looked as long as it was functional.†   (source)
  • One night he went to Don Sancho's Inn, an elegant colonial restaurant, and sat in the most remote corner, as was his custom when he ate his frugal meals alone.†   (source)
  • Because of my mother's frugality, our financial situation had gradually improved.†   (source)
  • This statement could be the motto for the Cynic school of philosophy, founded by Antisthenes in Athens around 400 B.C. Antisthenes had been a pupil of Socrates, and had become particularly interested in his frugality.†   (source)
  • The old frugality of pih endured.†   (source)
  • The women also were frugal, and they preserved many inside parts of the fish for other uses.†   (source)
  • Over the years she had bought very few things for herself, being naturally frugal and imagining, always, that her real life would happen elsewhere.†   (source)
  • I held it above the level of my eyes so that it might cast its frugal glow ahead of me.†   (source)
  • So they lived frugally and saved every rupee to educate their children--and they accomplished something heroic.†   (source)
  • After three years of frugal living, they had scraped together the down payment on a thirty-thousand-dollar starter house in a subdivision two hundred yards from Lake Hamilton.†   (source)
  • Mortenson had lived with monkish frugality since his return from Pakistan.†   (source)
  • While he was away at war Belle lived frugally and saved the money he sent her.†   (source)
  • Without Nana to run the kitchen, things had been simplified to the point of frugality; their meal consisted of lentil soup, bread, cheese, and quince jelly, which was less than Blanca ate at school on meatless Fridays.†   (source)
  • The cotton was cultivated by Baba and Uncle, the harvest cleaned by the women in our household, the beeswax we used to create designs and the dyes for turning the fabric blue were used sparingly because we were so frugal.†   (source)
  • They lived frugally.†   (source)
  • It'll become a habit to be frugal.†   (source)
  • "Let frugality and industry be our virtues," John Adams advised Abigail concerning the raising of their own children.†   (source)
  • Yet he saw the sweetness beneath and the warmth Lee tried to be so frugal with.†   (source)
  • The poor can be frugal.†   (source)
  • He indulged her by allowing her to spend lavishly, to the point of putting him deeply in debt, though he is by nature a very simple and frugal man.†   (source)
  • He lived frugally in a two-room suite in the Riverside Inn, where he acted as house physician for the aging guests during the winter season.†   (source)
  • Her personal tastes were almost as frugal as her needs; hooks and eyes, lengths of black tape and white tape, snappers so tiny it was difficult to handle them, narrow lace, a few yards, sometimes, of black or white cotton cloth, and now and then two pairs of black cotton stockings.†   (source)
  • Now that he was a boot-boy, he had thought little, frugally, almost stonily, of that long time … until lately Old Man McCaieb had reappeared at the Inn, bound for no telling where, his tangled beard like the beards of old men in dreams; and in the act of cleaning his boots, which were uncommonly heavy and burdensome with mud, Joel came upon a little part of the old adventure, for there it was, dark and crusted … came back to it, and went over it again… .†   (source)
  • The frugal farming class yet to come to the Fair will feel this greatly.†   (source)
  • So it's simple, frugal by the Capitol's standards.†   (source)
  • Reenie had always been frugal, but in these times waste was a sin.†   (source)
  • His frugal glare extended to the building's bathrooms.†   (source)
  • Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.†   (source)
  • The second lesson is that in good decision making, frugality matters.†   (source)
  • Deo was persuaded, but he couldn't get a refund for his plane ticket, and his frugality prevailed.†   (source)
  • Mama was frugal, Baba and Uncle barely ate, and we had survived.†   (source)
  • They ate a very frugal supper (for hobbits), and then went on again.†   (source)
  • Our frugal republic will have a modest executive branch.†   (source)
  • I endeavor to live in the most frugal manner possible, but I am many times distressed.†   (source)
  • Obviously, I can't buy the book, under my new frugal regime.†   (source)
  • The point is, today is the beginning of my new frugal life.†   (source)
  • Father and mother were hardworking and frugal of necessity, as well as by principle.†   (source)
  • Franklin acknowledged that frugality was a virtue he never acquired.†   (source)
  • And the other thing is, I'm not actually on my new frugal regime yet, am I?†   (source)
  • Frugality and industry were virtues everywhere, but avarice and stinginess were not frugality.†   (source)
  • And I reckon I deserve a real treat, after being so frugal over the last few days.†   (source)
  • My new frugality starts tomorrow—and cappuccinos aren't allowed.†   (source)
  • I must practice frugality, go straight home, and plot my expenditure graph.†   (source)
  • However, it is to him — and to the good Dr. Binswanger, who proposed me to him as the best man for the purpose on the western side of the Atlantic — for the price, which is not high, the Methodists being notoriously frugal — that I owe this splendid opportunity; an opportunity which I hope to be able to exploit in the interests of the advancement of knowledge, the mind and its workings being still, despite considerable progress, a terra incognita.†   (source)
  • They were frugal to a fault.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she was not as frugal as her mother, but she was aware of the possibility that she might regret the loss of something.†   (source)
  • Largely because of her sense of frugality, they saved a fair amount of money and eventually bought our first house.†   (source)
  • This loft, if it stood for anything beyond incredible good luck in the Manhattan housing market, was also a reflection of her mother's taste, put into practice by a dutiful daughter: simple, ample, plain, functional, frugal, even spiritual.†   (source)
  • Pashtuns are famously frugal (though generous with guests), and Baba was particularly careful with money.†   (source)
  • To her right, the muddy, frugal estuary of the Great Magdalena River spread out to the other side of the world.†   (source)
  • So they'd have to spread facsimiles of the medical complex in Cange throughout the vast, mountainous, famished Département du Centre, and if they were lucky and frugal, $14 million would get them started.†   (source)
  • The game she acted out upon the perfect body of the dressmaker's dummy must have pleased the frugal, Yankee part of her—the Wheelwright in her.†   (source)
  • After two hours of knitting, a frugal tea was served in the dining room, with Tristan and Iseult looking wanly down.†   (source)
  • Sharon grew up in Norwich, Vermont, in an Irish Catholic family, a little strapped for cash, and frugal.†   (source)
  • Would you sentence a seven-year-old to bleed slowly to death because you were too frugal to purchase quality lumber?†   (source)
  • Snap judgments can be made in a snap because they are frugal, and if we want to protect our snap judgments, we have to take steps to protect that frugality.†   (source)
  • Fast and Frugal .†   (source)
  • Snap judgments can be made in a snap because they are frugal, and if we want to protect our snap judgments, we have to take steps to protect that frugality.†   (source)
  • Emphatically independent by nature, hardworking, frugal—all traits in the New England tradition—he was anything but cold or laconic as supposedly New Englanders were.†   (source)
  • To Adams he mentioned his new "nail manufactory" and the time devoted to counting and measuring nails, but of the larger project he said nothing, knowing what the frugal New Englander would think of it.†   (source)
  • "Frugality, industry, and economy are the lessons of the day," she confided to a friend, "at least they must be so for me or my small boat will suffer shipwreck."†   (source)
  • David E. Barton says this is often when one's frugal regime cracks, as the office routine is no longer there as a distraction and the day stretches empty, waiting to be filled with the familiar comfort of shopping.†   (source)
  • God, this frugality is hard going.†   (source)
  • Let us have ambition enough to keep our simplicity, our frugality, and our integrity, and transmit these virtues as the fairest of inheritance to our children.†   (source)
  • This stone and several others [it read] have been placed in this yard by a great, great, grandson from a veneration of the piety, humility, simplicity, prudence, frugality, industry and perseverance of his ancestors in hopes of recommending an affirmation of their virtues to their posterity.†   (source)
  • FRUGALITY.†   (source)
  • Because wisdom and education were not sufficient of themselves, he had added the further "duty" of government to "countenance and inculcate" the principles of humanity, charity, industry, frugality, honesty, sincerity—virtue, in sum.†   (source)
  • …schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings, sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments among the people.†   (source)
  • If I lived frugally, I would have enough to move out of the stacks and rent a small efficiency apartment somewhere.†   (source)
  • Given the chance for the frugal, the industrious, and the able—for the Abraham Lincoln if not the John D. Johnstons—to assert themselves, society would never be divided along fixed lines.†   (source)
  • Much of this would be sold, but Wang Lung was frugal and he did not, like many of the villagers, spend his money freely at gambling or on foods too delicate for them, and so, like them, have to sell the grain at harvest when the price was low.†   (source)
  • Conway wondered at first if this were intended ironically, but it soon appeared not; the afternoon had passed swiftly, and Chang, though frugal in eating, had the typical Chinese fondness for tea-drinking at frequent intervals.†   (source)
  • I always thought her a frugal little person, but then I'm not as well informed about the intimate details of the Wilkes family as you seem to be.†   (source)
  • Theirs were the traditional ideals of the Protestant ethic: hard work, frugality, temperance, and a touch of ability applied long and hard enough would lift a man into the propertied or professional class and give him independence and respect if not wealthand prestige.†   (source)
  • The family sat down to table, and a frugal meal of cold viands was deposited before them.†   (source)
  • She did most of her work herself, and, frugal, she bought few clothes.†   (source)
  • After a frugal supper Philip filled his pouch with tobacco and put on his hat.†   (source)
  • And they fell to upon their frugal supper.†   (source)
  • Nothing could be more frugal than this repast.†   (source)
  • 'But she's very frugal, and she's very deaf.†   (source)
  • Over the ensuing days and weeks, Captain Nemo was very frugal with his visits.†   (source)
  • I'm perfectly willing to pay my full tax—fact, I'm in favor of the income tax—even though I do think it's a penalty on frugality and enterprise—fact, it's an unjust, darn-fool tax.†   (source)
  • Louise had brought her some fresh milk and a dish of fruit, and she partook of this frugal breakfast with hearty appetite.†   (source)
  • It is not difficult to imagine creatures, on smaller planets perhaps, who administer a miniaturized time and for whose "short" life the nimble, mincing steps of our second hand possess the dogged spatial frugality of an hour hand.†   (source)
  • The dinner was frugal, a plate of soup, a dish of meat, fruit, cheese, and half a bottle of wine; but Philip paid no attention to what he ate.†   (source)
  • The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience—in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism.†   (source)
  • Lily and her mother wandered from place to place, now paying long visits to relations whose house-keeping Mrs. Bart criticized, and who deplored the fact that she let Lily breakfast in bed when the girl had no prospects before her, and now vegetating in cheap continental refuges, where Mrs. Bart held herself fiercely aloof from the frugal tea-tables of her companions in misfortune.†   (source)
  • Tom and Amory and Alec had reached an impasse; never did they seem to have new experiences in common, for Tom and Alec had been as blindly busy with their committees and boards as Amory had been blindly idling, and the things they had for dissection—college, contemporary personality and the like—they had hashed and rehashed for many a frugal conversational meal.†   (source)
  • He lunched with his friends in the club-room, a frugal meal consisting of a scone and butter, with a cup of cocoa, and they talked of the war.†   (source)
  • My little apartment here, my few essentials for the toilet, my frugal morning meal, and my little dinner will suffice.†   (source)
  • When not more profitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the Hyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic employment—as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and quite alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax.†   (source)
  • While Hawkeye and the Indians lighted their fire and took their evening's repast, a frugal meal of dried bear's meat, the young man paid a visit to that curtain of the dilapidated fort which looked out on the sheet of the Horican.†   (source)
  • Their housekeeping was of a very frugal kind: not only because that was the safest way of life, involving the least offence to the people, but because they were not rich, and Charles, throughout his imprisonment, had had to pay heavily for his bad food, and for his guard, and towards the living of the poorer prisoners.†   (source)
  • The words were not exactly a hymn, but they certainly fitted his Sunday experience:— "O me, O me, what frugal cheer My love doth feed upon!†   (source)
  • Had there been a family to provide for, Mrs. Norris might never have saved her money; but having no care of that kind, there was nothing to impede her frugality, or lessen the comfort of making a yearly addition to an income which they had never lived up to.†   (source)
  • This Anton Antonitch lived on the fourth storey in a house in Five Corners, in four low-pitched rooms, one smaller than the other, of a particularly frugal and sallow appearance.†   (source)
  • Esther was holding a plate for him containing his frugal supper—some wheaten cakes, light as wafers, some honey, and a bowl of milk, into which he now and then dipped the wafers after dipping them into the honey.†   (source)
  • At this suggestion, both set themselves about making the preparations necessary for their usual frugal but hearty meal.†   (source)
  • An evening with John over the account books usually produced a temporary lull in the culinary enthusiasm, and a frugal fit would ensue, during which the poor man was put through a course of bread pudding, hash, and warmed-over coffee, which tried his soul, although he bore it with praiseworthy fortitude.†   (source)
  • But the absence of that cloud only left it more apparent that the cloud of severity remained; and Mr. Glegg, perceiving this, as he sat down to his milkporridge, which it was his old frugal habit to stem his morning hunger with, prudently resolved to leave the first remark to Mrs. Glegg, lest, to so delicate an article as a lady's temper, the slightest touch should do mischief.†   (source)
  • You should have left it to me, then, madame, who know what they are; but you wished to be frugal, and consequently to lend at usury.†   (source)
  • Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot[131] as they go along, and that a man often pays dear for a small frugality.†   (source)
  • 'Perhaps it would be better to say something, brother Ned,' suggested the other, mildly; 'it would help to preserve habits of frugality, you know, and remove any painful sense of overwhelming obligations.†   (source)
  • The little shrunken financier was intensely delighted to have questions asked him, and he scraped together information, by frugal processes, and took notes, in his little greasy pocket-book, of incidents which might interest his munificent friend.†   (source)
  • Even so, these men were frugal of speech and used among themselves only that bizarre dialect whose origin I couldn't even guess.†   (source)
  • In the way of providing, as in that of loving, there's not much to choose 'atween us; for the lad is frugal, industrious, and careful.†   (source)
  • He shared with us our frugal breakfast; answering my uncle's questions about the road and our resting place that night with merely yes or no, except when he said "Gardar."†   (source)
  • All the savings of a frugal life had been dispersed at a blow; his hopes of being an independent farmer were laid low—possibly for ever.†   (source)
  • If one guest came he sometimes partook of my frugal meal, and it was no interruption to conversation to be stirring a hasty-pudding, or watching the rising and maturing of a loaf of bread in the ashes, in the meanwhile.†   (source)
  • 'I passed the night in my cajack; and next morning, after a frugal meal of pemmican, and a draught of water from my flask, once more ventured forth.†   (source)
  • I drew a picture of our frugal home, made independent by my labour — sketching in the little house I had seen at Highgate, and my aunt in her room upstairs.†   (source)
  • Possessing very distinctive traits of their own, they nevertheless took the general characteristics of the little community in which they dwelt; a town noted for its frugal, discreet, well-ordered, and home-loving inhabitants, as well as for the somewhat confined scope of its sympathies; but in which, be it said, there are odder individuals, and, now and then, stranger occurrences, than one meets with almost anywhere else.†   (source)
  • Military precision succeeded to the desultory proceedings of border men, and when a hasty and frugal breakfast was taken, the party began its movement towards the shore with a regularity and order that prevented noise or confusion.†   (source)
  • This is my frugal breakfast.†   (source)
  • During the short and frugal repast that followed, the conversation was extremely circumspect, and related entirely to the events of the hunt, in which Magua had so lately been engaged.†   (source)
  • A touch, a ray, that is not here, A shadow that is gone: "A dream of breath that might be near, An inly-echoed tone, The thought that one may think me dear, The place where one was known, "The tremor of a banished fear, An ill that was not done— O me, O me, what frugal cheer My love doth feed upon!"†   (source)
  • As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, study, work, filled every day of his life.†   (source)
  • June was in the basement, preparing their frugal meal, and Mabel herself had ascended to the roof, which was provided with a trap that allowed her to go out on the top of the building, whence she commanded the best view of surrounding objects that the island possessed; still it was limited, and much obstructed by the tops of trees.†   (source)
  • …much—and Mrs Nickleby, who talked incessantly, and did something now and then, but not often—and Kate, who busied herself noiselessly everywhere, and was pleased with everything—and Smike, who made the garden a perfect wonder to look upon—and Nicholas, who helped and encouraged them every one—all the peace and cheerfulness of home restored, with such new zest imparted to every frugal pleasure, and such delight to every hour of meeting, as misfortune and separation alone could give!†   (source)
  • …Newman had it in his power to make, for the accommodation of his guests during the night, occupied no very great time in completing; and as he had insisted, as an express preliminary, that Nicholas should change his clothes, and that Smike should invest himself in his solitary coat (which no entreaties would dissuade him from stripping off for the purpose), the travellers partook of their frugal fare, with more satisfaction than one of them at least had derived from many a better meal.†   (source)
  • She was preparing for her frugal dinner next day, still occupied with the same ideas—a little softened down perhaps by sleep and daylight—when the girl who attended her, partly for company, and partly to assist in the household affairs, rushed into the room in unwonted agitation, and announced that two gentlemen were waiting in the passage for permission to walk upstairs.†   (source)
  • It was lucky for me that I had one as much dispos'd to industry and frugality as myself.†   (source)
  • She saw them in an instant in their parsonage-house; saw in Lucy, the active, contriving manager, uniting at once a desire of smart appearance with the utmost frugality, and ashamed to be suspected of half her economical practices;— pursuing her own interest in every thought, courting the favour of Colonel Brandon, of Mrs. Jennings, and of every wealthy friend.†   (source)
  • YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that— and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage?†   (source)
  • I know of no character living, nor many of them put together, who has so much in his power as thyself to promote a greater spirit of industry and early attention to business, frugality, and temperance with the American youth.†   (source)
  • Resolution, once become habitual, would keep me firm in my endeavors to obtain all the subsequent virtues; Frugality and Industry freeing me from my remaining debt, and producing affluence and independence, would make more easy the practice of Sincerity and Justice, etc., etc. Conceiving then, that, agreeably to the advice of Pythagoras in his Golden Verses, daily examination would be necessary, I contrived the following method for conducting that examination.†   (source)
  • …the members should engage to afford their advice, assistance, and support to each other in promoting one another's interests, business, and advancement in life; that, for distinction, we should be call'd The Society of the Free and Easy: free, as being, by the general practice and habit of the virtues, free from the dominion of vice; and particularly by the practice of industry and frugality, free from debt, which exposes a man to confinement, and a species of slavery to his creditors.†   (source)
  • Your Quaker correspondent, sir (for here again I will suppose the subject of my letter resembling Dr. Franklin), praised your frugality, diligence and temperance, which he considered as a pattern for all youth; but it is singular that he should have forgotten your modesty and your disinterestedness, without which you never could have waited for your advancement, or found your situation in the mean time comfortable; which is a strong lesson to show the poverty of glory and the…†   (source)
  • To Temperance he ascribes his long-continued health, and what is still left to him of a good constitution; to Industry and Frugality, the early easiness of his circumstances and acquisition of his fortune, with all that knowledge that enabled him to be a useful citizen, and obtained for him some degree of reputation among the learned; to Sincerity and Justice, the confidence of his country, and the honorable employs it conferred upon him; and to the joint influence of the whole mass of…†   (source)
  • My original habits of frugality continuing, and my father having, among his instructions to me when a boy, frequently repeated a proverb of Solomon, "Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men," I from thence considered industry as a means of obtaining wealth and distinction, which encourag'd me, tho' I did not think that I should ever literally stand before kings, which, however, has since happened; for I have stood before…†   (source)
  • …vehicle for conveying instruction among the common people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurr'd between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want, to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand up-right.†   (source)
  • I began now to have some acquaintance among the young people of the town, that were lovers of reading, with whom I spent my evenings very pleasantly; and gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably, forgetting Boston as much as I could, and not desiring that any there should know where I resided, except my friend Collins, who was in my secret, and kept it when I wrote to him.†   (source)
  • FRUGALITY.†   (source)
  • Living was easy in France then; with the exchange as it was, my allowance went a long way and I did not live frugally.†   (source)
  • While he watched the visibility of the open book on the table, he frugally shaved down the light to a haggard leaf.†   (source)
  • Greybeards pulled rickshas, pushed wheelbarrows of coal and wood to bakeries and palaces, strained their backs until the muscles stood forth like ropes and they pushed and pulled the heavy carts of merchandise over the cobbled roads, ate frugally of their scanty food, slept their brief nights out, and were silent.†   (source)
  • Let her take it, then; she would have to live in it more frugally, that was all.†   (source)
  • With his wife, since it was inconceivable to explain that he was going to seek Paul's spirit in the wilderness, he frugally employed the lie prepared over a year ago and scarcely used at all.†   (source)
  • So they progressed for two happy days, up and down the shore by street-car or machine, or by shoe-leather on the crowded boardwalk; sometimes eating with the wealthy, more frequently dining frugally at the expense of an unsuspecting restaurateur.†   (source)
  • Many a year went round before I was a partner in the House; but I lived happily with Herbert and his wife, and lived frugally, and paid my debts, and maintained a constant correspondence with Biddy and Joe.†   (source)
  • He questioned M. Nioche about his own manner of life, and felt a friendly mixture of compassion and respect over the recital of his delicate frugalities.†   (source)
  • I was then frugal of my mirth:   (source)
  • Their frugal meal.†   (source)
  • Our youth, of labor patient, earn their bread; Hardly they work, with frugal diet fed.†   (source)
  • Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?†   (source)
  • This, indeed, is the only instance of their frugality, for in all other things they are prodigal, even to the beggaring of themselves; but, besides this, they carry about with them a great number of idle fellows, who never learned any art by which they may gain their living; and these, as soon as either their lord dies, or they themselves fall sick, are turned out of doors; for your lords are readier to feed idle people than to take care of the sick; and often the heir is not able to…†   (source)
  • I waited; I lived regularly, and with as much frugality as became my circumstances, but nothing offered, nothing presented, and the main stock wasted apace.†   (source)
  • Frugality,(though in poor men a Vertue,) maketh a man unapt to atchieve such actions , as require the strength of many men at once: For it weakeneth their Endeavour, which is to be nourished and kept in vigor by Reward.†   (source)
  • Adam, earth's hallowed mould, Of God inspired! small store will serve, where store, All seasons, ripe for use hangs on the stalk; Save what by frugal storing firmness gains To nourish, and superfluous moist consumes: But I will haste, and from each bough and brake, Each plant and juciest gourd, will pluck such choice To entertain our Angel-guest, as he Beholding shall confess, that here on Earth God hath dispensed his bounties as in Heaven.†   (source)
  • Jones was going to rebuke him, but the stranger prevented it by proceeding thus: "I had a chum, a very prudent, frugal young lad, who, though he had no very large allowance, had by his parsimony heaped up upwards of forty guineas, which I knew he kept in his escritore.†   (source)
  • The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions.†   (source)
  • I do not say to keep an equipage, and make a figure, as the world calls it, nor did I expect it, or desire it; for as I abhorred the levity and extravagance of my former life, so I chose now to live retired, frugal, and within ourselves.†   (source)
  • …(for such Their distance argues, and their swift return Diurnal,) merely to officiate light Round this opacous Earth, this punctual spot, One day and night; in all her vast survey Useless besides; reasoning I oft admire, How Nature wise and frugal could commit Such disproportions, with superfluous hand So many nobler bodies to create, Greater so manifold, to this one use, For aught appears, and on their orbs impose Such restless revolution day by day Repeated; while the sedentary…†   (source)
  • …expenses incurred in the prosecution of the ambitious enterprises and vainglorious pursuits of a monarchy are not a proper standard by which to judge of those which might be necessary in a republic, it ought, on the other hand, to be remarked that there should be as great a disproportion between the profusion and extravagance of a wealthy kingdom in its domestic administration, and the frugality and economy which in that particular become the modest simplicity of republican government.†   (source)
  • I told him that though my cargo of tobacco was damaged, yet that it was not quite lost; that the merchant I had been consigned to had so honestly managed for me that I had not wanted, and that I hoped, with frugal management, I should make it hold out till more would come, which I expected by the next fleet; that in the meantime I had retrenched my expenses, and whereas I kept a maid last season, now I lived without; and whereas I had a chamber and a dining-room then on the first…†   (source)
  • …had rode, And his first slumber had refresh'd the godThe time when early housewives leave the bed; When living embers on the hearth they spread, Supply the lamp, and call the maids to riseWith yawning mouths, and with half-open'd eyes, They ply the distaff by the winking light, And to their daily labor add the night: Thus frugally they earn their children's bread, And uncorrupted keep the nuptial bedNot less concern'd, nor at a later hour, Rose from his downy couch the forging pow'r.†   (source)
  • Don't be frugal, now.   (source)
    frugal = careful to avoid waste
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