The rights of Israeli Arabs are penuriously restricted let alone the right of Gulf Arabs to acquire land in Israel or the West Bank. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He was living penuriously in their midwestern college town when she met him, salting away what he could. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He lived penuriously before that in another college town, a saver there too. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Padington house, she said, was already let, and her mother was determined not to hire another, but still to live as penuriously as possible, in order, notwithstanding his remonstrances, to save all she could of her income for her son. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He lived penuriously, denied himself even necessaries, and carefully treasured his hoarded savings. ❋ Unknown (2007)
When Hopkins died in 1886, Sarah Winnemucca abandoned her school and her career, and finished out her life penuriously near the village of Monida, Montana. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)
He comes home almost every day with a drawing or painting -- probably of little value; for I know he lives penuriously, and even the letter that I am to write for him shows his poverty. ❋ Various (N/A)
Everything seemed to be out together – all the things crowded into one month which in England are spread penuriously over six. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Alas, this call to a more natural life, after centuries of physical degeneration and suppression of all feeling for nature, could not be understood, nor even taken seriously, in surroundings in which air, sunlight, the very right to live, had been refused or measured out penuriously. ❋ Nahum Slouschz (1919)
She was willing to make every sacrifice but that, and if she were only allowed to remain there, did not care how penuriously she lived. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Wood brings water, and if things were so satisfactory, why did they penuriously hive and distribute the element? ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
He had said a great deal, he had even bared himself in spots; yes, how penuriously hadn't he scraped up the least little thing that might vindicate him in the slightest degree! ❋ Knut Hamsun (1905)
Everything seemed to be out together -- all the things crowded into one month which in England are spread penuriously over six. ❋ Elizabeth Von Arnim (1903)
In that petty middle-class, narrow-minded and penuriously pretentious, which was the main factor of Cullerne life, he possessed considerable influence and authority. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)
Buonarroto tells me how you live yonder, very economically, or rather penuriously; economy is good, but penuriousness is evil, for it is a vice displeasing to God and man, and, moreover, it is bad for the body and soul. ❋ Charles Holroyd (1889)
Here are three profits to be paid between the printer and the reader, or in the style of commerce, between the manufacturer and the consumer; and if any of these profits is too penuriously distributed, the process of commerce is interrupted. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
In addition to this, the ancient nobleman had been penuriously strict in his examination of accounts, exacting the uttermost farthing, so the humble servitor regarded his memory with supreme contempt. ❋ Robert Barr (1881)
He lived penuriously, and toiled at professional study night as well as day. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Unable, whatever his own straits, to deal penuriously with my one, Will had thought out a liberal arrangement, whereby all the dwelling part of the house should be given over, rent free, to Allchin and his wife, with permission to take one lodger; the assistant to be paid a small salary, and a percentage on shop takings when they reached a certain sum per month. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
Thus in order to hoard up a little more for two able-bodied young men, here was a bent, aged man living penuriously and alone, his only companion being a beautiful and evidently much petted donkey. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
