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careful and diligent in the use of money or other resources
- He was going his matutinal rounds to collect cabbage-leaves, turnip-tops, potato-skins, and the miscellaneous refuse of the dinner-pot, which the thrifty housewives of the neighborhood were accustomed to put aside, as fit only to feed a pig.Chapter 19 — Alice's Posies (14% in)
There are no more uses of "thrifty" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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