Stinted

The common pasture was early 'stinted' or limited, the usual custom being that the villager could turn out as many stock as he could keep on his holding. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The light faded at last, and Anne, with a sudden recollection of - the partly-knit stocking which she had "stinted" herself to finish before bed-time, for that staving lad, her brother Harry, exclaimed: "Madge, dear, light the gas and read Mill to me, while I knit for dear life!" ❋ Unknown (1869)

Some people saved a bit of money so that everyone can suffer on stinted-on public trains service! ❋ Nina Burleigh (2011)

US health spending didn't grow much in 2009, reports Amy Goldstein: The nation's expenditures on health care in 2009 grew by 4 percent, the smallest increase in at least a half-century, according to new federal figures that suggest Americans stinted on medical services as they lost jobs and insurance in the recent recession. ❋ Ezra Klein (2011)

You can't say NBC stinted on the new studio or the set, a kind of bigger, bluer, shinier reinterpretation of Carson's old Tonight set, with Andy Richter off to the side at a podium and the audience once again seated as in a theater rather than in Leno's comedy club configuration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Muti never stinted on visceral excitement — a hallmark of the five-part symphony's last two movements — but it was his supreme control of dynamics, pacing and overall architecture that most thrilled, true even when his innate dramatic impulses caused him to lunge or drop nearly to his knees on the podium. ❋ David Mermelstein (2010)

Manufacturers are having trouble now partly because some of them stinted on recruitment and training when it was easier to find workers. ❋ James R. Hagerty (2011)

While Mr. Noble and Mr. Funicello have not stinted on spectacle including an amazingly vivid snowstorm they have once again kept the spotlight on the actors, who respond with bold and resourceful performances. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most have a combination of a stinted production run, drastically lower-than-projected sales (at least 50% lower than expected), and critical and/or popular disdain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Israeli officials denounced the report as wrong and unfair but stinted on producing their own counterevidence of just how much effort their military put into avoiding the deaths of innocents in that extraordinarily difficult operation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After taking a short "break" from pre-med at Berkeley and heading to culinary school, Danji's chef stinted at Daniel and Masa before striking out on his own with a new-meets-old-school Korean small plate eatery, with the "washed and muted tones of a pottery studio" engulfing a mere 33 seats so best to claym one early. ❋ Thrillist (2010)

That's all arranged, don't you see, an 'I' aven't stinted, neither. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

She received it, cared for it, used it as much as she could in as many venues as possible until that 35-year nourishment program sent her into a venue where she could pour it out, and Miss Boyle stinted nothing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“If it will not flourish alone,” said Roland, “I will mix it with the laurel and the myrtle — and I will carry them so near the sky, that it shall make amends for their stinted growth.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some imagined her studies had stinted her growth; and all were convinced her education had made her such a fright. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'I take it, then,' he said, 'that was what stinted your growth so, Miss? for, I take it, you're not much above the dwarf as they shew at Exeter ❋ Unknown (2008)

But he was surprised when, the instant he stepped over the threshold, the gossips, who were busied with the dead body, stinted suddenly in their song, while one said to the others: ❋ Unknown (2008)