54 examples of niggard in sentences

The direction was kept by compass, many of the men having been supplied with a miniature instrument by the prudent foresight of Mrs. Lanview, who was niggard of neither time nor money in the cause she had at heart.

I am not saying there are not instances of niggard feeling, though I am not about to name them, which really it was hardly possible to believe could exist.

But these are scenes where Nature's niggard hand Gave a spare portion to the famished land; Hers is the fault, if here mankind complain Of fruitless toil and labour spent in vain; But yet in other scenes more fair in view, Where Plenty smilesalas!

Here in the valley there is no cessation of waters even in the season when the niggard frost gives them scant leave to run.

Cunningly had he clutched a few golden moments from the hoard that Fate, the niggard, guards from us so jealously.

For once, fortune hath not been a niggard with me.

The vicar recollected how he had seen the same sight at the door of Kensington Workhouse, walking home one night in company with Luke Smith; and how, too, he had commented to him on that fearful sign of the times, and had somewhat unfairly drawn a contrast between the niggard cruelty of 'popular Protestantism,' and the fancied 'liberality of the middle age.'

Johnson's Ode written in Sky was thus translated by Lord Houghton: 'Where constant mist enshrouds the rocks, Shattered in earth's primeval shocks, And niggard Nature ever mocks The labourer's toil, I roam through clans of savage men, Untamed by arts, untaught by pen; Or cower within some squalid den O'er reeking soil.

Niggard of question, but of our demands Most free in his reply.

And some restraint imply'd from each perverted text; Whilst touch not, taste not what is freely given, Is but thy niggard voice disgracing bounteous Heaven.

There is a lady, Of such a perfect virtue, grace and sweetnes, That Nature was to all our sex beside A niggard, only bountiful to her; One whose harmonious bewtie may intitule All hearts its captive: yet she doats on you With such a masculine fancy that to love her Is duty in you.

He is a niggard all the week, except only market-day, where, if his corn sell well, he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience.

A niggard of good nature cheats Himself and wrongs his fellows.

Whate'er to his treasure the niggard may add, Yet regard for the joyous will ever be had, For gladness lends ever its charms to the glad, So, brethren, sing: ERGO BIBAMUS!

He'll be no niggard; As is meet, Feast after feast

As Milne-Edwards has well expressed it, Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation.

Have you turned niggard? Lewis.

Why am I scanted by a niggard birth?

But the stern Presbyterian, with his dogmas and his task-work, the city circle and the college, with their niggard concessions and unfeeling stare, have never tried the experiment.

Say, are thy youthful hours Doled in such niggard measure, that thou must Be chary of them to thy aged uncle? RUDENZ.

Is it a niggard you are grown to be, McDonough, and you with riches in your hand?

No niggard hand it was that found Thy punctual fare, nor short the measure Of garbage brought from miles around And meal that cost its weight in treasure; But ever as the U-boat u'd And lunch grew relatively lighter We filled thee up with wholesome food And watched thy tensile skin grow tighter.

Uproot a stately plant from its fertile, maternal soil, and there will still cling lovingly to it much that can seem superfluous only to a niggard.

The close-pressed lips the mouth can lock, And so repress the vain reply, The lid can veil th' unwilling eye From all that may offend and shock, Nature doth seem a niggard here, Unequally her gifts disposing, For no instinctive means of closing She gives the unprotected ear.

For whether bounteous Summer sport her stores, Or niggard Winter bind themstill the forms Most grand, most elegant, that Nature wears Beneath Columbia's skies, are here combin'd.

54 examples of  niggard  in sentences