By St. Bavon, I think the old miser grudges us three our quart of soup," said he.
I called the old man Damer, from a folk-story of a chandler who had bought for a song the kegs of gold the Danes had covered with tallow as a disguise when they were driven out of Ireland, and who had been rich and a miser ever after.
Damer the chandler, the misergot the spoil of the Danes, that was mocked at since the time of the Danes.
This was the miser who saved all his money--to do good deeds to his friends.
Then, full of rage, the old man wrote the most outrageous letters about poor Agnes, saying that she was a shrew and had compelled Drer to work himself to death; that she was a miser and had led the artist an awful dance through life.
There once lived in a small town in New Castile a noted miser named Don Manuel Rodriguez.
This is another puzzle received from my friend Don Manuel Rodriguez, the cranky miser of New Castile.
I'll lay a wager the miser outbids every one of you,--even rich generous Marigny here!
Miser though he be, in a general sense, there's one class with whom he's generous enough.
I like to see how avarice defeats itself: how, when avoiding to part with money, the miser gives something more valuable.
But philosophers and satirists have all treated a miser as contemptible.
His son again was a miser of the first water who could be enticed neither to court nor into the houses of his neighbours.
If old Lapussa did not choose to pay a price for it, and a liberal price too, he should be told nothing at all and Margari would show the old miser that he had a man of character to deal with.
The miser himself seldom lives to enjoy the fruits of his extortion.
Mr. Farquhar, the purchaser of the property, was an old miser who had amassed an immense fortune in India.
So the old miser perked his chin and brows, and cried wondering, 'I know it, this Jewel, O my mistress.
Ukleet pushed the old miser jeeringly: 'You not recognise her?
The miser lives in a world of imagination and fruition; his whole life and all that he is, even his sex, lies in his brain.
The old miser has got wind of his son's invention; he wants to turn it to his own account, so there is some hope of a partnership.
Collateral testimonies, however, go far to prove that the death of the miser took place about the year 1775, and that his sister died a few months previous.
Nearly sixty-four years have elapsed since the miser and his sister passed from among the living.
The next day every one prepared with high glee for Elwyn's promised treat, and puzzled themselves with various conjectures as to what kind of feast the miser would set before them.
He was placed there as a school for improvement in tactics and all the relative duties of a soldier: he had good connexions, and a genteel allowance; but was a miser at twenty.
He clasped her close as death can hold, Or dying miserclasp his gold,-- His hold became a part of her.
The women gave a squall, and I thought themiser would have dropped out of the chair where he was sittin.
The care-worn and the careless--the miser and the spendthrift.
The miser bit his lip; "An' do ye refuse me for a son-in-law?
How a miser acts upon principles which appear to him reasonable, ver.
My heart, I remember, swelled up bitter within me at the sight of that bare house and the thought of the old miser sitting chittering within in the cold kitchen.
But I was too like a miser of what joys I had and would venture nothing on a hazard.
A miser in the extreme, he had saved up much money by his having had the command of a vessel for so many years, during which he had defrauded and pilfered both from the men and the government.
Nancy had obtained from Moggy all the particulars of the lieutenant's wooing of the widow Vandersloosh, and his character as a miser and a coward.
Had he been a miser only, she would have attacked by gold alone, but being a coward, it was decided that he should have some further stimulus to betray his country, and enlist himself among the partisans of King James.
Patient, the doctor should side with either party according to whether the oldmiser or his expectant heir was his employer.
A miser pouring out his guineas into his palm and bathing his shrivelled and trembling hands in the yellow heaps before him, is not the prosaic being we are in the habit of thinking him.
Books are not buried with their owners, and the veriest book-miser that ever lived was probably doing far more for his successors than his more liberal neighbor who despised his learned or unlearned avarice.
When the old miser could bear it no longer he started up and belabored his servants right and left; but one of them struck the old man with an oar and killed him.
Miser and misogynist in humble life, who finds a baby-girl in his cottage one night, and in bringing her up, learns to have patience with life and charity with his kind.
The representation in the parable, however, is true to nature and fact: it would be a mistake to attribute to a miser a high appreciation of the dignity of man.
The miser is always losing money, or trembling lest he should lose it in the next transaction.
The miser was only the more angry at her way of putting the question, because he could not say he had actually missed the money; yet he was convinced it was his money she had been spending.
At first the miser would not let her go near his cellars; but as he spent so much time down there she said she could not be deprived of his company for so long, she must come down too.
But every day at midday she let the miser see her taking her fancied dinner of air.
The old miser who lives opposite wants a wife who can live on air; and if he thinks you can do this he will marry you.
At last the old miser came across under the window, and said to her: 'What are you doing at the window there?
All the time she was down with him the miser held both her hands in his, as if he was full of affection for her; but in reality it was to make sure she did not touch any of his money.
This went on for long, because the miser had so much gold that he never missed the few pieces that stuck to her shoes every day.
I offered my best apologies, but the old miser would not have done with it.
As a miser he saved, and as a usurer he increased, the money which he won as a blackleg and card-sharper.
He should keep money in the position of a useful servant; he must never let it be his master and make a miser of him.
If that were true, a grasping miser would be the most honorable creature on earth, while a man like Gladstone, great without money, would have been an impossibility.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: churl; collector; connoisseur; farmer; magpie; miser; niggard; stiff
