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careful and diligent in the use of money or other resources- The thrifty man had gathered up the bits of gouged-out wood and taken them home.Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- He was thrifty and energetic.Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
- Mr. Wine said the way he showed me how to sharpen the pencil was the thrifty way.Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree
- She'll decide to be thrifty and offend Frey with a paltry sacrifice.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
- These poor Christians are not thrifty like our country people at home; they have no veneration for property, no sense of material values.Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- In this cheap and thrifty way Sir Pitt tries to pay off his debt to his family.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Yet she could talk about being thrifty in Mexico.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- He was sober, thrifty and pious; he went to the altar every first Friday, sometimes with her, oftener by himself.James Joyce -- Dubliners
- He was becoming impatient to get away on his journey now; however, he was not to lose this thrifty dame's society so easily.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- I told my wife, "she had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herself and her daughter to nothing."Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- Then who so pleasing, thrifty, and satisfactory in every way as Elizabeth-Jane?Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- He was too thrifty to use one when it could possibly be avoided.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- They had not established their position skilfully enough, or perhaps they were too thrifty.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- Yesterday, at Thrifty Car Rental in downtown D.C., she felt like she was walking a tightrope.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- He scorned the improvident, and now the improvident would be just as good as the careful, the sound, the thrifty.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- When near at hand he saw that the rancher was a thrifty farmer.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Carol had a suspicion that the thriftier housewives made the afternoon treat do for evening supper.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- "Thrifty man!" cried the doctor.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
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