To discuss your methods of saving money," was the reply, alluding to the niggardly economy for which Guy was famous.
Yet that kind of economy which verges on the niggardly is better than the extravagance that laughs at it.
He affected a niggardly moustache, and when he spoke full lips framed his words noticeably.
She must be a jade indeed, if she long give her favours to such a niggardly canaille as that!
When this was mentioned to some Mbau women of high rank without the disclosure of the man's name, they at once identified him with Sakease, whoseniggardly spirit appeared to be notorious.
Let thy face be shining the time that thou hast: verily that which cometh out of the store doth not enter again; but bread is for apportionment, and he that is niggardly is an accuser, empty of his belly.
This niggardly and short-sighted attitude is hardly worthy of one of the richest countries in the world.
Withhold the funds on some niggardly and mistaken principle of petty economy, and the present progress will be discouraged and the educational tree become stunted in its growth.
He recalled to mind the mean and niggardly acrimony of Molineux, and he shrank from imploring his favor.
And must we then, lads and men, worship a God of wrath, quick to punish, niggardly in fatherly forgiveness, lest we stray into evil ways?
Vehemens in utramque partem, aut largitate nimia aut parsimonia=--Ready to rush to either extreme of lavish liberality or niggardly parsimony.
The army is a school in which the niggardly become generous and the generous prodigal.
The miser isniggardly in death; two glances he casts on his coffin and a thousand with dismay on his anxiously-guarded treasures.
But, by our farmers' showing, it is but a harsh and niggardly step-mother, opening the fountains of life only under enforcement.
The niggardly gifts of the Russian Government were received by Russian Jewry with an outburst of gratitude and devotion which bordered on flunkeyism.
He was ugly and laughably disfigured with the small-pox; and while nature had been so niggardly with him from the first, his personal habits were even sluttish.
In countries where a harsh climate or niggardly soil forbade the cultivation of the vine, he taught the inhabitants to console themselves for the want of wine by brewing beer from barley.
A very thorough business in there, nothing niggardly about this; it is almost dawn.
She had lost much: having been ravished, she gave herself away; why beniggardly now?
The result was a churlish message and a niggardly supply of corn, coupled with an invitation to aid him against an insurgent chief, the plunder of whose villages would yield an ample supply.
Your friend over there--he is a niggardly oaf--has sent for the hundredman and the constable, and you are the quarry.
So our niggardly knight sent for Zima, and offered to buy the horse of him, hoping thereby to get him from Zima as a gift.
Statistics on Somalia's GDP, growth, per capita income, and inflation should be viewed skeptically.
We ought not therefore to be niggardly in our praise and honour of an enemy that deserves a good name.
