He then became a journeyman, and by his parsimonious habits saved money enough to pay the preliminary expenses, and was enabled to assume the office to which he had so long aspired.
There was not much state in the magnificent palace of little Louis XIV during his long minority, and he chafed against the restrictions of a parsimonious household.
He was parsimonious in such matters and hated to see good clothes spoilt, as he showed when he removed a new velvet cap in a sudden storm and sent to his palace for an old one!
If the preceding rulers of the Corporation had been a trifle too parsimonious in the matter of expenditure, Mr. Chamberlain and his party soon began to make amends for any trifling mistakes or past errors in the way of economy.
At Cambridge I knew an undergraduate who had a somewhat parsimonious pater.
You will conclude that during this time I must have been at more expense than I could afford--indeed, the most parsimonious could not have avoided it.
It must, however, be allowed that a democratic State is most parsimonious towards its principal agents.
It is the parsimonious conduct of democracy towards its principal officers which has countenanced a supposition of far more economical propensities than any which it really possesses.
And being of New England, he would always be parsimonious with flatteries.
She would be lavish in complaint and parsimonious of help.
Accordingly, his Viceroyalty of India moved Bonaparte to envy, patriotic Britons to rapturous applause, and the parsimonious Directors of the Company to carping criticisms.
This corner of Magna Graecia is a severely parsimonious manifestation of nature.
His parsimonious way of living, and his aversion to all superfluity or excess, were construed into avarice as soon as he became emperor; whence Plutarch observes, that the pride which he took in his temperance and economy was unseasonable.
Considering, however, the parsimonious character which the historian attributes to this emperor, we are more inclined to think that the sum must have been entered on the credit side of the ledger.
Parsimonious to the verge of avarice, he was thought to be rich, and the credit of being so increased the respect that was shown to him.
He dreaded the abuse of economy, and was suspicious that a parsimonious provision would throw the Government into the hands of bad men, by which the people might lose every thing they now held dear.
In opposition to this it may be said that those parsimonious plans were recommended by the Executive, and only enacted into laws by the Legislature.
It will be seen that Henry VII, the most parsimonious of kings, had no mind to pay the expense of the voyage.
We know nothing of the results of the expedition, but it returned in safety in the same year, and the parsimonious king was moved to pay out five pounds from his treasury 'to the men of Bristol that found the isle.
Of this parsimonious allotment it is again a hopeless search to inquire the reason.
The Hollanders, simple and parsimonious as their ordinary habits were, had set their hearts on giving their illustrious countryman a reception suited to his dignity and to his merit; and he found it necessary to yield.
The price was sixty ducats, but the parsimonious Agnolo said he would give but forty, though he knew it was worth more.
Though parsimonious with himself, he was generous to others.
Parsimonious of all he observed, he never related a typical anecdote, or offered a suggestive remark.
It must, however, be allowed that a democratic state is most parsimonioustoward its principal agents.
It is the parsimonious conduct of democracy toward its principal officers, which has countenanced a supposition of far more economical propensities than any which it really possesses.
His father had improved the old paternal estate, and trebled its original value; and shared, in no common degree, the parsimonious disposition of his son.
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