There was no other light in the room; it was rarely the old skinflintsuffered another.
Or not one drop of milk do I take from your old skinflint of a father!
Our ex-skinflint is now a bare-faced, legally-protected robber.
How the oldskinflint has changed--instead of screaming his head off about spending money he's actually offering to.
He shouldn't have given old Skinflint the mordige.
Deacon Skinflint sent her some fresh eggs, too, that were so old you could smell 'em before the shells were broken.
I said I bet you wanted the farm yourself, seeing that old Skin--Mr. Skinflint didn't get it.
Judge Abbott has lots of money, but folks have to work for what they get out of him, and old Skinflint is so stingy that he borrows the city papers so's he won't have to buy them himself.
Maybe he wants the farm, seeing old Skinflint didn't get it.
Old Skinflint has got the mordige on our farm and won't give it up.
It's to keep old Skinflint from taking our farm away, so that we will have to live around at different places.
I had my pail heaped a dozen times, and shook down too, and Gavin Hume spilled all his on an ant hill, and he said Old Skinflint would thrash him, so I gave him mine.
McGarry was too, and he stormed and scolded Wallace and his sister by turns, and ended up by declaring that William was getting to be nothing but a skinflint and that he might give the boy another chance.
He was a Scotch boy, whom old Skinflint Jenkins' folks had adopted from an Orphan Asylum.
For the very summer that Christina had given her berries to the abused little orphan, the Grant sisters had rescued him from the dire possibility of being taken West by the Skinflint Jenkinses who were moving to the prairies.
But ever since the day Christina had saved him from Skinflint Jenkins' horse-whip, he had shown a tendency to follow her with adoringly humble eyes.
I could have put it back if the old skinflint hadn't got to sniffing round and sicked 'em on my books.
And me lying here hatin' him for a skinflint and his store for a bloodsucker and the Aid Society for a fake!
Sir Isaac Skinflint being seated in his great Chair--um underwritten--Sound Senses tho' infirm in Body.
But let old skinflint look to himself; with that malignant joke he has signed his own death-warrant.
Tony, Tony, you begin to know the value of the shiners, to tremble lest old skinflint Pike should cut you out of daddy's will.
The Skinflint said, with rapture, to his friend, 'I think a great lot of the poor can be housed here!
Thus was my Skinflint inwardly exulting over his house.
He's a skinflint and hasn't any more heart than a stone.
What do you work for the old skinflint for, if you want to do right?
Your Highness says I have reduced these fellahs to ruin," said Skinflint Beg: "what is the best way to confound my enemies, and to show you the falsehood of their accusations that I have ruined them?
Give me free leave--give me your Highness's gracious pardon, and I will bring the five hundred purses as surely as my name isSkinflint Beg.
Skinflint Beg's prayer for a reprieve was granted, and he returned to his village, where he forthwith called the elders together.
When they arrived, Skinflint Beg and the elders of El Muddee sought admission to the Royal throne, and there laid down their purses.
You may conceive what a breadth of buckler and how many folds of brass are necessary to shelter him against such a multitude of weapons; yet still Skinflint combats on.
But Skinflint is an invaluable fellow to lead a forlorn-hope.
Our friend Skinflint of the Importationist is fighting a most praiseworthy battle, and every one must admire the pluck which he has exhibited under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
I undertake, on the other hand, that if the said proof should be effectual, a mythical personage called Simon Skinflint shall become a supporter of the Female Union for Englishwomen's Employment.
I know him for a skinflint who will deny the King.
He lived all alone with a skinflint of an old cook, as stingy as himself, who would rather by far have seen an apple rot than give it to a hungry child whose mouth watered for it.
Two or three days after the wedding, Radonic brought his girlish bride to live with his mother, the veriest old shrewish skinflint that could be imagined.
But I would not have you misunderstand me: though it was for me to call myself a skinflint for that act, it was not for you to do so.
And I agree with you," he added presently, in a quiet voice: "I was a skinflint for fair!
There's Skinflint Martin--he won't part with a bushel.
Then, too, I think he understands the tricks of the market better over here, and he has a very dangerous confederate in Skinflint Martin.
Skinflint Martin ought to have died in penal servitude years ago, and as for Dredlinton--" Wingate was quick to scent disaster.
Then they'll probably let a dozen of their subsidiary companies go smash, and Peter Phipps, Skinflint Martin and Rees will be multimillionaires.
And to think of that old devil, Skinflint Martin, scenting the trouble and getting off to Buenos Ayres!
I wish we could do something to fix thatskinflint old neighbor of theirs,” continued Fred, after a pause.
As they looked back the boys could see the old skinflint still standing in the road shaking his fists at them, until a sudden turn hid him from view.
The old skinflintmight as well have kept his money for all the good it will do us.
The old skinflint has refused to lend it to your father or Tom, but perhaps he'll not refuse you if you ask him.
They say that when Old Skinflint Holden saw the transformation he stood stock-still, then tied his team to the artistic hitching post under the old elms and went in search of Rollins.
I saw him working when I went out to carry a message from dad, and I felt sorry for any chap who had to knuckle down under that oldskinflint and tyrant.
He has never played, at all events since he has been in Paris, and you need not be astonished at our surprise when we saw the old skinflint come to the table.
Pasquarello, after serving him, where, besides wages and food, many a good quattrino fell into his mouth, gone to the very greatest and most accomplished skinflint and miser that ever swallowed macaroni?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skinflint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
