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With an exasperating parsimony he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks, Everyone had forgotten about the existence of that fortune. (source)parsimony = extreme reluctance to spend money
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He was, I had discovered, parsimonious about small expenditures--a trait absolutely inconsistent with his general character. (source)parsimonious = extremely reluctant to spend money
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But he has a reputation for wisdom and for a respectable parsimony (source)parsimony = reluctance to spend money
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Beginning here, as though regretting her parsimony, Nature had spread his features with a lavish hand. (source)parsimony = extreme reluctance to use resources
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Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. (source)parsimony = extreme reluctance to spend money
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He had not come to stay with him on his arrival in Petersburg simply from parsimony, though that had been perhaps his chief object. (source)parsimony = reluctance to spend money
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... telling me, that by steady industry and a prudent parsimony I might save enough by the time I was one-and-twenty to set me up; (source)parsimony = reluctance to spend money
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You think me rather parsimonious, don't you? (source)parsimonious = extremely reluctant to spend money
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They had rescued a wineskin from among the ruins, which Pedro Garcfa divided three ways: a third to wash the injured man's body, a third for Esteban to drink, and the other third he drank parsimoniously himself before beginning to set Esteban's bones, one by one, patiently and calmly, pulling here, adjusting there, putting each one back in its proper place, splinting them, wrapping them in strips of sheet to keep them immobile, mumbling litanies to the healing saints, invoking good luck and the Virgin Mary, and putting up with the screams and blasphemies of Esteban Trueba, without ever altering his beatific blind man's expression.† (source)
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There's no parsimony in us when it comes to bridal gifts. (source)parsimony = extreme reluctance to spend money
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He was secretive, he was parsimonious with his affections.† (source)
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I farcast to Renaissance Vector and then to Parsimony, where I boarded a spinship for the three-week voyage to Asquith and the crowded kingdom of Sad King Billy.† (source)
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Her father, in a moment of brutal honesty, had once said of his only daughter that God had been generous when giving her brains but parsimonious with her looks.† (source)
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If there was a grievous flaw in how things were being run, it was the "stupid parsimony" of the Congress.† (source)
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Perhaps the adults believed that Shiva, my busy, industrious brother, was naturally parsimonious with his words.† (source)
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But Joe knew that parsimony had no part in this.† (source)
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