27 adjectives to describe thrift

It is told of Ruy Garcia that when he went for his marriage license he lacked a dollar of the clerk's fee, but borrowed it of the sheriff, who expected reelection and exhibited thereby a commendable thrift.

but what if I bid thee To be my seneschal, and here with prayers, With sober thrift, and noble bounty shine, Alone and peerless?

Travellers have harped on the worldly thrift of Protestant countries.

WAYSIDE GLIMPSES I have mentioned one little theory, relating solely to domestic thrift, which guided Mrs. Goldthwaite in her arrangements for her daughter.

He is a fellow indeed of a kind of frantic thrift, and one of the strangest things that wealth can work.

So if the apple-tree will make too much wood, it can bear no fruit; during summer it is full of haughty thrift, but the autumn, which brings grace to so many a dwarfed bush and low shrub, shows it naked and in shame.

But she (forsooth) when I put these things to her, These things of honest thrift, groans, O my conscience, The load upon my conscience, when to make us cuckolds, They have no more burthen than a brood-[goose], Brother; But let's doe what we can, though this wench fail us, Another of a new way will be lookt at: Come, let's abroad, and beat our brains, time may For all his wisdom, yet give us a day.

It has an air of humble thrift, with now and then a pretty garden, and here and there suggestions of a certain degree of greater prosperity, an air which, in France, often conceals unexpected wealth.

The possibility was due to the intelligent thrift of his wife.

He need not have been in Belgium before to realize that here was an unwarlike people, living by intensive thrift and cautiona most domesticated civilization in the most thickly- populated workshop in Europe, counting every blade of grass and every kernel of wheat and making its pleasures go a long way at small cost; a hothouse of a land, with the door about to be opened to the withering blast of war.

And on his shoulders high his bat to beare, As if good service he were fit to doo, But little thrift for him he did it too: 240

It was a case of abstraction, or theft, or mistaken thrift.

I will give them one which I shall be most thankful to hear they have solved within the next seven yearsHow is it that we find certain plants, namely, the thrift and the scurvy grass, abundant on the sea-shore and common on certain mountain-tops, but nowhere between the two?

Useless trees and clumps of jungle are cut down; and in fact the Zeraats round a factory shew a perfect picture of orderly thrift, careful management, and neat, scientific, and elaborate farming.

Wild roses and poppies, pink-thrift and white daisies, all contributed to make the old rock gay.

And, of course, a vast fund of stories has sprung up that deals with the proverbial thrift of the Scot!

It has been observed that he and Mrs. Wordsworth did incalculable good by the example they unconsciously set the neighborhood of respectable thrift.

There was little in him to interest or attach a family of regular domestic habits, like the Wordsworths, given to active employment, sensible thrift, and neighborly sympathy.

At the same time, he acknowledges the superior thrift and intelligence of the French cooks, and instances the frog and the horse.

He would pay the men; he had, with a surprising thrift, saved nearly a thousand dollars in the bank at Tower.

One of the chief arguments I used to hear for the observance of public worship was, that it would raise the value of property and improve the temporal condition of the worshippers,so that temporal thrift was made to be indissolubly connected with public worship.

The real "HAMLET"if there ever was such a personwould have shown the traditional thrift and enterprise of his race by a very different course of conduct.

His use is doubled, and no one sixpence begot or born but presently, by an untimely thrift, it is getting more.

Amongst the middle classes, industrious as they are, unusual thrift is rare.

In this particular, Scottish and Swiss thrift, both notorious, and the latter particularly so, are nearly equalled by New England thrift; more especially in the close estimate of the value of services rendered.

27 adjectives to describe  thrift