Now I declare, Lady Tinemouth," exclaimed Miss Egerton, "this is an absolutestingy fit!
Without a doubt," cried Shafto, bursting into a hoarse laugh; "you would be clever to see my Lady Stingy in any other carriage than her clogs.
He was so tight, though, that he couldn't hold his glass steady; and though you know I never had a drop of stingy blood in me, it did go to my heart to see him spill that gorgeous sherry.
I wish to God I had trusted all to you from the first, and not tired myself to death by walking over to that stingy little monster .
But she always offered her Saturday bonbons to Anne as to the other girls; she couldn't enjoy them herself if she were so mean and stingy as not to do that, she declared stoutly.
The Charity lady told me just to ask for one--stingy old thing!
Oh, Prince, I repeat it to you, but for that the eyes of an old man are stingy of tears, mine would flow in torrents at the thought of the damnable error of those unhappy heretics!
If only one tear did run down my grey beard, it is because old men's eyes are stingyof tears.
If her stingy old father, who permitted her to get into the scrape, would come up like a man and pay what he ought to pay, there would be no more pother about this business.
She isn't going to let a stingy little million stand between her and happiness.
That, of all people, Stingy Willis should be the one to come to our assistance!
That the culprit was Stingy Willis there could be little doubt.
There was no one upon her premises, after all; but at the other side of the partition was Stingy Willis, sure enough!
He had a reputation with the "charity gang" of being stingy because he would not give them so much as the price of a bazaar ticket.
Where many a really stingy man yielded through weakness or fear of public opinion, he stood firm.
The stingy rich fill their satellites with envy and hatred.
I knew, of course, how stingy a person can be about a horse.
And as I was riding away, behind that line of rocks so Mr. Stingy wouldn't see me, I saw a certain person come sneaking up to the corral and turn his horse inside.
The scale ranges from the humble “un urge,” denoting a poor or very stingy man, to the superlative “dix urges.
A stingyman is also said to wear gloves of the size 6½, whilst a generous One sports the 8½.
If you are too stingy to take a drink yourself, take one with me.
He looked at me and said: "Are you broke this morning, or too stingyto drink, or what is the matter?
If Mr. Gooch wasn't sostingy he'd have it cleaned up.
I wouldn't call a man stingy who had given a library to the law school," Hattie objected.
I don't think it's stingy to be economical," Hattie said with her most superior air.
Her father, as I said, was too stingyto hire help.
A few years ago her brother Paul was in love with a girl up the Sage Brush, the daughter of a prosperous, stupid, stingy old ranchman.
If the owner of the orchard was supposed to be stingy you might do it to plague him.
They despised Yankees as a mean-spirited race, who werestingy and would cheat; and would not hit you if you told them they lied.
As for Stingy Gabe, he shut up his fine house and moved to New York.
Finally they all simmered down to one, and that one was what made me stop Stingy Gabe on the street and ask for my bearin's.
We hadn't much more'n got in our seats afore the door opened, and in walked Gaius Ellis, arm in arm with a man; and the man was the Honorable Stingy Gabe Atkinson Holway.
All hands called him 'Stingy Gabe,' and the boy inherited the name along with the fifteen hundred dollars that the old man left when he died.
Why not,' says he to Stingy Gabe, 'start a free club for men that'll make the billiard room look like the tail boat in a race?
The reason why we are such shriveled, scrub oaks of human beings is found in the dried-up, mean, stingy ideal of ourselves which we have been taught to hold.
An' they do tell me, Measter Anthony, that he be jist as stingy as ever.
I suppose the stingy one at home only drinks Adam's ale?
The only way to get those stingy old chaps to leave their money to their lawful heirs is by taking no notice of them.
He do keep her so shabby, that she have not a gownd fit to wear; and she do look as pale as a ghost; and I am sure she is nearer to her end than the stingy old Squire is to his.
And according to Dick Rail, he was "stingy as h--l.
Posey must have thought too flippant for the occasion, for he turned upon the speaker with an indignation that could not all have been inspired by the memory of his stingy friend's deed.
Anyway, he was as ornerystingy as he could be an' live.
These stingy merchants can have no idea of the wants of men of honour like us, who have a long journey before us.
A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
A hundred and twenty-four reales are necessary to make that stingy piece of flint understand the duties of a son of Saragossa in times like these!
As Montoria told me afterwards, the stingiest of the stingy not only permitted his daughter some expenses, but now and then made her some little present which he looked upon as the ne plus ultra of mundane splendor.
On the other hand, were some mean and stingy folks, who liked to hear the coins jingle.
Their stingy father had never owned a carriage, or allowed the horses to be ridden.
Old Styf had the most fun with another stingy fellow, who always scolded children when he found them spending a penny.
The stingy fellow, as he fell overboard, bumped his head so hard on the plough beam, that he lay senseless for a half hour.
