I then better'd my Condition a little, and lived a whole Summer in the Shape of a Bee; but being tired with the painful and penurious Life I had undergone in my two last Transmigrations, I fell into the other Extream, and turned Drone.
Penurious heaven, can'st thou not add a night To our one day?
He had traced the man to one of the most penurious streets in the metropolis.
If you are poor and have to sell your free-agency for a sixpence a week to some penurious relative, or be everlastingly thankful for the gift of an old garment that won't hang together till you get it home!
Art was a republic, and everybody was equal in it--the doughtiest professor and the meanest model, the richest amateur and the penurious youth starving himself to be there.
It seemed as if all the penuriousyears of the Clarks were now being revenged in one long prodigal draft by this last representative of their line.
Her uncle's harshness and penurious ways mortified the girl, and troubled her greatly as time went on.
Much to Aunt Alvirah's sorrow, Uncle Jabez became more exacting and penurious when Ruth's school expenses ceased to trouble him.
In her mind it was associated with a quarter of a century of penurious economy, and she longed at last for the luxury she enjoyed so thoroughly in the houses of others.
It was not a light thing to have been told that she was one day to be among the richest of her very rich acquaintances, after having been brought up in such a penurious fashion.
Much of Sir Tristram Shorttool (so I think Men call your husband) have I ofttimes heard, And his penurious humour.
I should have been too glad, I see, Too lifted for the scant degree Of life's penurious round; My little circuit would have shamed This new circumference, have blamed The homelier time behind.
Reginald took the best of life and became a capricious invalid, as penurious as he had been wasteful before, and died about the time of the accident.
Meanwhile the Major's brother had died, a queer, penurious old fellow who had never given up his rights in the estate and now it all came to the Major, besides a large amount of money.
There is nothing so tempting to the over-thrifty and penurious or miserly person as the offer of large interest.
Yes; but you trifle with me by these reluctant and penurious communications.
Why, you penurious slicer of musty bacon--you iniquitous dealer in light weights--what respect are you entitled to from me?
In fact, this close, nervous, and penurious old man felt, when about to perform this generous action, all that alarm and hesitation which a virtuous man would feel when on the eve of committing a crime.
He has likewise written comedies, and his contemporaries have not been, penurious in their eulogiums.
When the world began to be more critical in their reading, the monks gave a graver turn to their narratives; and became penurious of their absurdities.
None but themselves could appeal to Heaven, and for their crowned slaves they were not penurious of their beatitude.
It met with some who adopted it, and Bodley had their names inscribed in the register of this public library; but he was as cautious as he was courteous--the vain were not to be gratified for penurious gifts.
Probably he had lived in a very simple penurious style during his whole studenthood, taking his meals at a cafe or eating-house, and centering all his affection and ideas upon his beloved studio.
The cause we are pleading is not the calamities of indifferent writers, but of those whose utility or whose genius long survives that limited term which has been so hardly wrenched from the penurious hand of verbal lawyers.
The prominent feature in his literary character was good sense; but in literature, though not in life, good sense is a penurious virtue.
It became evident that the proprietor of Beaujolie Castle, though a great lord, was by no means in any respect a great man, being penurious in everything except the indulgence of his own vices and superstition.
He sent for his son, gravely told him that with debts, mortgages, and settlements, the very encumbered estate he was about to inherit would scarcely pay its own expenses, and recommended him to live in future with the most penurious economy.
Such was the penurious love he bore for the science which he had adopted, that the extraordinary discoveries of thirty years subsequent to his own first essays could never excite even an idle inquiry.
This penuriousprinciple flatters not that egotism which great writers share in common with the heroes who have aimed at universal empire.
Tall persons are rarely mean, though often grasping; but very penurious persons are often broad built.
The King was saving andpenurious in his habits that he might have the more money to buy votes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penurious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
