359 examples of thrifty in sentences

The thrifty and shifty patriots sent from the North at once took a stake in the city, and thenceforward there was growth, if not grace, in the capital.

He, too, could have told a tale not without its strong features of a shiftless set, constantly borrowing, constantly squandering, constantly provoking the thrifty to accumulate unguarded properties.

And say to them, if you be prudent and thrifty housewives, Do not tell us that their condition costs you nothing.

Wholesale migration of the more thrifty has made the already difficult problem of readjustment more complicated.

" Then I continued my way across the empty, close-gleaned corn-field, across the railway track, and, plunging into the orchard on the other side, where here and there among the trees the torrents of apples were being already caught in boxes by the thrifty husbandman, began to breast the hill intersected with thickly wooded watercourses.

The domestic discipline he encountered under the paternal roof was of the severest New England pattern of those days, and between its theology and its economy he grew out of shape, like a thrifty pumpkin between two rocks.

The meaning of the word snudge is easily guessed in this place, but it is completely explained by T. Wilson, in his "Rhetoric," 1553, when he is speaking of a figure he calls diminution, or moderating the censure applied to vices by assimilating them to the nearest virtues: thus he would call "a snudge or pynche-penny a good husband, a thrifty man" (fo. 67).

She would stimulate industry and the cultivation of moderate abilities, as more likely to win in the long race of life,even as a barren soil and ungenial climate have generally produced the most thrifty people.

But this humor is more than that of a shrewd and thrifty English farmer's wife; it belongs to human nature.

This little account had mounted up to a very tidy sum, and the thrifty widowor old maidno one ever knew which she waswas generally referred to by the young artists of the Rubens Studios as a 'lady of means.'

He has meanwhile, if he has been thrifty, grown rich.

But I observed, as an indication of the steward's thrifty, unpoetic mind, that the garden beds were planted with onions and such marketable produce, in place of flowers, and that instead of deer grazing upon the green slopes of the park there was only such profitable cattle as sheep, cows, etc.

Nature, that 'thrifty goddess,' never gave you 'the smallest scruple of her excellence' for that.

because their policy hath been otherwise, and we are not so thrifty, circumspect, industrious.

A good, honest, painful man many times hath a shrew to his wife, a sickly, dishonest, slothful, foolish, careless woman to his mate, a proud, peevish flirt, a liquorish, prodigal quean, and by that means all goes to ruin: or if they differ in nature, he is thrifty, she spends all, he wise, she sottish and soft; what agreement can there be?

They paid, of course, their Turkish taxes, but these were not levied in any oppressive manner, and their colonies were thrifty, self-governing, and prosperous.

Being a thrifty soul, he drove a good trade with the savages at the councils, selling them quantities of liquor.

This was the life of the thrifty pioneers, whose children more than held their own in the world.

The Germans were more thrifty and prosperous, but they could not go first into the wilderness.

And when she diessome grey, long, summer evening, When the bird shouts of childhood through the dusk, 'Neath night's faint tapersthen her body shall Lie stiff with silks of sixty thrifty years.

Among other thrifty devices, she generally wrote to her friends on the backs of circulars, on blank pages of notes she received, on almost any clean scrap, in fact.

He was industrious, thrifty, and withal a skilful workman.

"To Cobham the thrifty I leave a good fifty, To be laid out in cloth dyed dark; On Sabbath-day to be given away, And known by Smith's badge and mark.

He bought a large plantation near C, which he divided into small homesteads, and sold to poor but thrifty laborers, and his heart has been gladdened by their increased prosperity and progress.

Their men marry the women of the islands and have large families, the boys of this class being wonderfully thrifty.

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