Both Uses of
frugal
in
Middlemarch
- 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!†
Chpt 5 *frugal = careful not to waste
- 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!"†
Chpt 5
Definition:
avoiding waste -- typically being careful not to spend much money