The niggardspends as much as he who is liberal, and in the end more.
If niggard Earth her treasures hide, To all but labouring hands denied, Lavish of thorns and worthless weeds alone, The doom is half in mercy given, To train us in our way to Heaven, And show our lagging souls how glory must be won.
By our own niggard rule we try The hope to suppliants given!
All that a heart, so fixed as mine, can move, Is, that my niggardfortune starves my love.
I much fear, That soul, which could deny the body here To taste of love, would be a niggard there.
Heaven is forced of earth to borrow What the poor niggard earth has not to lend; But when the stalk is snapt, the rose must bend.
They complained that the English treated them with contempt and haughtiness, being niggard of their presents and sharp in their trade.
These goods were of considerable cost to the English, but always seemed a niggard gift to the Indians, as there were so many to share in them.
The goods of this world cannot be divided without being lessened; but why be a niggard of that which bestows bliss on a fellow-creature, yet takes nothing from our own means of enjoyment?
Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.
God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in= 50 =His bounty that He has not wherewithal to furnish forth two worlds.
Nature has made them hardy and intelligent, for their life is a perpetual struggle to extract a scanty subsistence from the niggard and rocky soil.
And is all this because nature is niggard or savage?
Thou hearest that the patricians are not niggard of their gold, when there is hope of his being taken.
For once, fortune hath not been a niggard with me.
He is as niggard as the saints are--the little mean beasts!
There was to be no performance on the morrow; the niggard patronage of the town had been exhausted.
The life of the colonists was a daily battle with niggard Nature--for New Mexico was never fertile--and with deadliest danger.
But De Luque, reminding him that his orders from the Crown commanded assistance to Pizarro, at last induced the niggard governor to allow a vessel to be sent with barely enough sailors to man it, and a small stock of provisions.
And here we may likewise remark that Swinton was no niggard of his good cheer.
Nature has scattered the necessaries of existence with a niggard hand over these desert plains, and the supply of water is indeed scanty.
The aged and the infirm, who can still perform a light task, have just received their daily dole from the royal storehouse at the niggard hand of the pampered steward.
Nature has dispensed the first necessary of life with a most niggard hand, those pools which have not a constant supply of running water soon become adulterated by various decompositions of organic and inorganic matter.
Bear him on his bier beside me: never more in halls of Gort Shall a niggard king deride me: slaves, of Sanchan make their sport!
Dispense thy meat freely; have no niggard for thy familiar.
The most brilliant, unscrupulous and daring historian of France degraded the niggard praise he accorded them by making it the medium of a false and contemptible sneer.
Mr. Hume, a parsimonious economist, of niggard principle and grovelling sentiment, undertook the office of coercing the Irish.
Let those unhappy women, therefore, to whom nature has been niggard of her bounties, pine in an abandoned bed.
Those few good parts he has, he is no niggard in displaying, and is like some needy flaunting goldsmith, nothing in the inner room, but all on the cupboard.
He is a niggard all the week, except only market-day, where, if his corn sell well, he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience.
This little he hath, he is no Niggard in displaying; resembling some Apothecaries Shops, full of Pots, though little contained in them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "niggard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
