The inhabitants were chiefly Greek, and had all the cultivated tastes and mercantile thrift of that quick-witted people.

For instance, having a comfortable balance at the bank, thanks to their thrift in the past, money did not enter into their calculations at all.

Life is confounded with labor, and thrift with progress; and material success is the aim to which all other aims are made subordinate.

But then, he doubtless inherited his thrift from the worthy ancestors of the ilk of those men who utilized trousers for a land measure.

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

Had we all practiced thrift before the war, wad we no hae been in a better state tae meet the crisis when it came upon us?

He continually seeks to lift men from the plane of mere toil and thrift to the loftier levels of aspiration.

Tell me, I pray, wherefore was gold laid under our feet in the veins of the earth, but that we should contemn it, and tread upon it, and so consequently tread thrift under our feet?

The influence of the government has also been exerted so far as could be to the encouragement of habits of thrift among the people by the establishment of postal savings banks and other inducements for wage-earners to save their money.