She much preferred to have them think her miserly and odd--a queer old recluse who never went anywhere, even to church, and who paid the smallest subscription to the minister's salary of anyone in the congregation.
Well, she didn't get her miserly ways from her parents.
If an avaricious character is made to make a miserly speech, a reader will have a clue to his nature; if he is made to make it with a lisp or stutter, there will be a descriptive touch as well.
If the writer states that John is miserly, and puts miserly words on his lips, the reader will never believe in John's avarice if he does a generous thing in the story.
And she sobbed aloud in the anguish of her miserly heart, distracted by this loss of a fortune, and trembling at the prospect of impending want.
I swear to you that I will, for the future, be more miserly than Martine herself.
A fresh pang of miserly anguish made Martine cry out: "Ah, monsieur, you are well punished for your sin.
Had they been in fact the harlots which the miserly scoundrel represented them to be, they would not have been so utterly powerless to resist his assault.
A young man, the nephew and clerk of a wealthy but miserly merchant, became acquainted with the daughters, and was specially attentive to the older one.
His contemptible soul and his life, almost, now hung by a miserly two cents.
All the lies he had told for miserable gain, all the miserly self-denial he had practised, all the clients he had cheated and robbed, all the hatred he had won from others availed him not.
By this time the crew and steerage passengers were in a very angry frame of mind; the former were overworked and exhausted, and the latter were furious at the miserly allowance of food doled out to them by the equally miserly captain.
Only a few days ago, I was where they wrench the precious metals from the miserly clutch of the rocks.
He is found, acknowledged, has passed the afternoon with your grandmother, has money more than enough to satisfy even the unjust demand of the miserly Van Tassel, and will be a father to you.
The shrivelled little miserly widow was his confidante, and, for the illumination of Mrs. Shafto, she had drawn glowing pictures of Khartoum House, and outlined an imposing sketch of the luxuries awaiting its future mistress.
This was Gasper Farrington, a miserly but wealthy magnate of the town.
An old-time enemy, and a bitter and crafty one, Ralph knew he could never expect any good from the miserly old magnate of Stanley Junction.
At a good many turns of late, it seemed, the miserly magnate of Stanley Junction was coming into his life.
He could not recall one gracious action on the part of the miserly old man in all the years he had known him.
A very religious and very miserly man who hoarded for his son.
A miserly and deceitful man, this fellow Violette secretly aided with Malin de Gondreville and the powers of the day against Michu, the mysterious agent of the Cinq-Cygne, Hauteserre, and Simeuse families.
III JONAS GETS RID OF AN ENEMY Jonas, meanwhile, in his miserly soul, had been wishing that his old father would hurry and die.
She was in a sour temper because the miserly Jonas, who came from London often now to see them, had begun to make love to Mercy instead of to her.
In the village of Steino there lived an old priest who was exceedingly wealthy, but who was, withal, as miserly as he was rich.
While the habits of a spendthrift are perhaps above all things else to be avoided, a close second to this as an evil practice is the habit of expending in a miserly and begrudging manner.
There are perhaps as many well-to-do persons who are miserly because they cannot help it as there are improvident persons who are spendthrifts because they cannot longer prevent it.
AL'ISON, the young wife of John, a rich old miserly carpenter.
The Bowdoins did not tell him how her husband had sunk to be a slave-catcher; for they knew how miserly old Jamie had become, and supposed that his salary all went to her.
And now I, the last of the stock, dwelt with a miserly mother's uncle who did shipwright's work for the foreign captains.
But the Duke was reputed a miserly patron, and at the thought Mr. Lovel's eyes overflowed.
Only a few days ago I was where they wrench the precious metals from the miserly clutch of the rocks.
Miserly literature not being abundant, the proportion of failures to successes may have been as a hundred to one; still Mr Boffin, never wearied, remained as avaricious for misers as he had been at the first onset.
Any book that seemed to promise a chance of miserly biography, Mr Boffin purchased without a moment's delay and carried home.
A gloomy house the Bower, with sordid signs on it of having been, through its long existence as Harmony Jail, in miserly holding.
But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters.
Miserly too, my dear; which is far the most unpromising for us.
I should think very little of the moral worth of a woman who would jilt such a man as my father, to marry a selfish miserly wretch like Mark Hurdlestone for his money.
I never give up an advantage once gained, and am as miserly of opportunities as your father is of his cash.
Why, man, you have found out a more expeditious method of making gold than your miserly uncle ever knew.
Trevor, and so noble and brilliant a successor to its present miserly head.
This habit had long engendered that peculiar respectfulness of manner and demeanour, which we had occasion to remark so undeviatingly maintained by the son, towards the miserly parent.
When alone with Ingham, however, she said that Pratt was a miserly cub, with no generosity whatever.
Gardiner got this concession out of the miserlytemperament of the old man, by persuading him that a sealer could not work to any advantage, unless he had the means of occasionally warming himself.
