Hugging this sophistry to her breast, and still searching for love, she believes him until the day of realisation dawns upon her -- old and broken and bitter-hearted, with scarcely a friend left in the world, and not even the compensating coin thriftily demanded by her sister of the streets. ❋ Myrtle Reed (1892)
Efficiency and decoupling have helped California to consume electricity far more thriftily than the rest of America. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I am optimistic that the next generation in Britain will see the need to live thriftily, frugally, and within their means and will buckle down to doing that and, being human, probably make Virtue of Necessity. ❋ Unknown (2011)
So, it hit me that I'd been working on this record, and I said, "I'm a DIY artist, so I kind of have to spend my money wisely and thriftily." ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you work hard, save thriftily and accumulate a fortune, you'll be taxed constantly and then see up to one-half of your savings go to your distant Uncle Sam instead of the heirs that you choose. ❋ Ed McCaffery (2010)
Excessive private spending — heirs wasting an inheritance instead of using it thriftily and productively — is the Paris Hilton "problem." ❋ Ed McCaffery (2010)
He gratefully swished his mouth with whisky for disinfectant purposes, though, and thriftily swallowed it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ribera's delicately hatched, fragmentary profile head in chalk (c. 1622), with an ear depicted twice in an effort to get it right, competes for attention with a frontal, subtly stroked "portrait" of a bat with outstretched wings (c. 1620-25); the leftover spaces flanking the bat are thriftily filled by more studies of ears — one in side view, the other dramatically foreshortened. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2010)
Small box: Mini banana muffins (thriftily made in fastfood condiment containers!), chocolate covered coffee beans, more pear, grapes and a frozen strawberry. ❋ Unknown (2007)
My lovely Mr Jeremy sitting in one of our handsome new, thriftily Craigsourced armchairs. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mrs. Rogers responds, quite thriftily, that she only wraps small gifts -- not large ones -- in money (a sheet of 32 $1 bills goes for $55). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some of the stone was thriftily handdug by the museum's president, Lila W. Berle. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He starred in Transformers , a thriftily animated series (cynics would call it a half-hour toy commercial) that pitted Prime and his army of Autobots against the vicious Megatron and his Decepticons. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If affection be inexhaustible, it is not so with love: the task, therefore, of a woman — truly no light one — is to spread it out thriftily over a lifetime. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In a roundup of brandies available in the city in 1955, she declared that grappa "is thriftily distilled" from "the residue in wine vats." ❋ Unknown (2007)
