Here I went, scrimping the other business of the day in order that I might be at my studies before the rush set in up town.

" "I'm willing to scrimp and save for it, Edwin; but in the end I haven't got the say-so, and you know it.

" "He's only a" "He's rewarding the way you scrimped to pay his expenses for nonsense clubs and societies by asking you to do it another four years.

" "Harry, ifif it's the money, maybe I could manage" "Yesand scrimp and save and scrooge along without a laundress another four years, and do his washing and" "Icould fix the money part, Harryeasy.

where do you plant it?" "Itit's the way I scrimp, Harry.

When she stinted and scrimped and saved on shoe-leather for the happiness of it?" "Why, this is no sure thing I got on the brain.

And Heaven knows I have had to scrimp enough to support us all on what I used to haveOlaf," Patricia said, in another voice, "Olaf!

"We scrimped and pinched, and denied ourselves everything but bare necessities.

The extra expense we'll charge to experience accountexperience is an awfully high-priced commodity, you knowand next month, while we won't exactly scrimp ourselves, we'll keep our eye on the accounts and watch them as they progress.

She waited for customers, but they seldom came,often, from opening to window-barring, not one; for the unwilting little martyr of the Hendrik Athenaeum and Circulating Library had made herself a highly disapproved-of Miss Wimple by her ungrateful and contumacious behavior at her father's death, even if the hard and sharp black lines of that scrimped delaine had not sufficed to turn the current of admiration, interest, and custom.

You could scrimp and save for Nancy's coming out, and then for Kathleen's.

572. abridger, epitomist^, epitomizer^. V. be short &c adj.; render short &c adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress &c (contract) 195; epitomize &c 596. retrench, cut short, obtruncate^; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten (in drawing).

short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate^; retrousse^; stocky; squab, squabby^; squat, dumpy; little &c 193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c 572; summary.

avarice, greed &c 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm^, scrimp, lickpenny^, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.

"Oh, I thought maybe they were trying to scrimp on the ring" Mrs. Heeny, shrugging away this explanation, rose from her seat and rolled back her shiny black sleeves.

I've tried my best to economizeI've scraped and scrimped, and gone without heaps of things I've always had.

So they were always scrimped, but that didn't hinder Rachel from bein' one o' the likeliest gals round.

It is considered absolutely essential for every young man to wear one of those beautiful fabrics, and if there is none for him in the family he saves his earnings and scrimps and borrows and begs from his relations until he gets enough money together to buy one.

Since seventeen she had saved and scrimped and contrived for this modest Roman holiday.

Little can be laid up for old age, except by the most painful economy and daily scrimping; and how can the children consent to stay on, starving body and soul?

There's nae scrimp aboot Christina,' he added with pride.

And I sez, "You'll sup sorrow yet, Josiah Allen, with your tendency to save and scrimp.

He didn't do right by Ury, and he ortn't to had so many wives, if he'd scrimped himself a little in 'em, mebby his son, Solomon, wouldn't had so many, and one is enough, as I told Josiah.

I want you and Miss Simmons to not scrimp in your foreign charities but begin to home and make your own dependent ones comfortable.

And within the twelvemonth, for all his scrimping and saving, he was on the point of starvation.