325 examples of stints in sentences

Then he learns the value of a good education, and, perhaps, stints himself to give his children advantages which he had not himselfand, as sure as he does so, the family begins to rise again after its fall.

Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.

There is no stint to the faithful service they have given to the Germans.

Well paid too, five rupees a day pay and three rupees a day ration money, he had had no stint of eggs and chickens and the fruit of the country, that have been rarest of luxuries to us.

God knows, he stints neither time nor moneythe souls of the poor are well looked after, and their bodies tooas far as his purse will go; but that's not far.' 'Is he ill-off, then?'

But there is one who does not complain, but gives and gives, and stints herself to give, and weeps in silence and unseen over the evils which she has yearly less and less power to stem.

However, he pointed out to the jury the cases one by one with great care and no stint of language.

Hold thy peace, Dick, it cannot still keep at this stint: We are now lighted upon such a mint, As (follow it well)

This quotation is typical: "Achilles spear could as well heal as hurt, the scorpion though he sting, yet he stints the pain, through the herb Nerius poison the sheep, yet is a remedy to man against poison...

Nevertheless, though I have to be thrifty, almost parsimonious, upon this matter, the Council of India and myself will, I am sure, not stint or grudge.

Sonny ain't never did nothin' half-ways,not even mischief,an' I ain't a-goin' in, at this stage o' his raisin', to stint him.

They drew without stint on the piety of after ages,a resource which has not unfrequently proved too feeble to realize their generous expectations.

The father who stints his children or domestics, or the master his apprentices, or the employer his laborers, or the officer his soldiers, or the captain his crew, when able to furnish them with sufficient food, is every where looked upon as unfeeling and cruel.

For a man habitually to stint his dependents in their food, is the extreme of meanness and cruelty, and the greatest evidence he can give of utter indifference to their comfort.

The father who stints his children or domestics, or the master his apprentices, or the employer his laborers, or the officer his soldiers, or the captain his crew, when able to furnish them with sufficient food, is every where looked upon as unfeeling and cruel.

"You don't stint the praise of a friend, Tayoga," he said, "but I know that at least three-fourths of what you say is true.

Father Cuddy derived no small comfort from the sound, for it presaged a good metheglin season; and metheglin he considered, if well manufactured, to be no bad liquor, particularly when there was no stint or usquebaugh in the brewing.

He gave orders that studs, or knobs of silver or gold (so Malmesbury tells us.) should be fastened to the sides of their cups, or drinking vessels, that when every one knew his mark or boundary, he should, out of modesty, not either himself covet, or force another to desire, more than his stint."

In one of my freelance stints there, a curious case pertained to a curious firm selling matresses at the price of Rs 60,000 to a 100,000 and more.

The exteriors of mourning, a decent funeral, and black habits, are the usual stints of common husbands: and perhaps their wives deserve no better than to be mourned with hypocrisy, and forgot with ease.

A jar of spirits had been delivered at the house at intervals for years and years, far back into his father's time, and every one of those who now expressed their disgust at his supposed drinking habits had sipped their tumblers in that house without stint.

Methodism and Popery are in different ways the refuge of those whom the Church stints of the gifts of grace; they are the foster-mothers of abandoned children.

" "Are they a part of the six thousand a year, Alice?" "Of course; but Charles wishes me to dress, and never stints me in money; and, after all, I like for him to spend his money in his own way.

shortly shalt thou see That age checks not McGLADSTONE's glee, Nor stints his swashing blows!" Again that light has fired his eye, Again his form swells bold and high; The broken voice of age is gone, 'Tis vigorous manhood's lofty tone.

of such charms compact As nature stints elsewhere: which you may find Under the tender eyelid of a serpent, Or in the gurge of a kiss-coloured rose, By drops and sparks: but when she moves, you see, Like water from a crystal overfilled, Fresh beauty tremble out of her and lave Her fair sides to the ground.

325 examples of  stints  in sentences