But worst of all is the fray raging between the misers and their own offspring, for wasting the goods and money which, the old pinchfists aver, 'cost us much pain on earth, and here endless anguish.
Scarcely is judgment passed on these than war again breaks out--soldiers and doctors, lawyers and userers, misers and their own offspring, are fighting each other.
They judge of works of genius as misersdo of hid treasure--it is of no value unless they have it all to themselves.
Like misers who hoard their wealth, they are supposed to be masters of all the wit and sense they do not impart to the public.
The flatterer an earwig grows; Thus worms suit all conditions; Misers are muck-worms, silk-worms beaux.
His yellow forehead was wrinkled like those of men whose habit it is to believe nothing, to weigh all things, and who, like misers chinking their gold, search out the meaning and the value of human actions.
Misers are afraid of only one thing," replied the king.
The prejudice againstmisers is unjust in the extreme.
The discovery of this treasure excited in Louis's breast none of that avaricious or revengeful joy that the heirs of misers often feel when they think of the cruel privations a parent's avarice has imposed upon them.
Misers are capable of the grandest and most heroic acts.
Well, my dear Louis, I defy you to mention any monastic order whose members renounce all earthly pleasures as absolutely as the majority of misers do.
It is a well-established fact that the thumbs of all misersare "tied in" and cramped-looking.
It is perhaps this very fear of things and people that in the end makes them misers with their gold.
Search was made for the hidden treasure the miserswere supposed to have concealed about the house, but nothing of value was found, and the bodies of the iniquitous pair were committed to burial at the expense of the city.
I should have thought these reputed misers would keep a locked door to their house," he said to himself, with unconscious disappointment.
As we have sometimes hypocrites in religion, and demagogues in politics, so there are occasionally misers among money getters.
It is with misers as with this fish; they have nothing but gold in their mouths.
From the regions of ministers and misers we may descend to the equally disputed realms of the muses.
Speak not of misers who have sold Their soul's integrity for gold-- Than bravoes and than cut-throats worse, Who in their calling steal a purse.
No misersare generous; Some old men are not generous.
No misers are unselfish; None but miserssave egg-shells.
No old misers are cheerful; Some old misers are thin.
True Misers live like beggars, people say; The man with hidden treasure Æsop drew Is an example of the thing I mean.
One of these misers was worth ten thousand, another seven thousand a-year.
The half circle: This Fourth Circle is divided half-way round between the misers and spendthrifts, and the two bands at set periods clash against one another in their vain effort to pass into the section belonging to the opposite party.
He guards the Fourth Circle, which is that of the misersand spendthrifts.
But worlds of Misersfrom his pen should flow; Humorists, and Hypocrites, it should produce, Whole Raymond families, and tribes of Bruce.
I have studied the people called misersand thought a good deal about them.
To Pan alone rich misers call; And there's the jest, for Pan is ALL.
Several carts had been attacked and pillaged, some strong farmers had been visited, and two or threemisers were obliged to become benevolent with rather a bad grace.
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from the shore; Hoards e'en beyond the misers wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
