The most suitable time for stinting cows is during the forty days following the rising of the Dolphin, or even a little later, for thus they will drop their calves at the most temperate season of the year, for a cow goes ten months pregnant.
Why, you must have beenstinting me for years," continued Mr. Vickers, examining the various costumes in detail.
We are told that this same vilicus often cheated the slaves by stinting their allowance for his own benefit, and we can not doubt that he, a slave himself, was more likely to be brutal and cruel than the master would have been.
Miserly and niggardly persons seek to gain by mean and petty savings; the miserly by stinting themselves, the niggardly by stinting others.
Progress in wealth will not build a barrier against itself by stinting the resources on which hereafter labor must rely.
No discontinuance of essential services, no stinting of them, and no demand for extortionate returns for them can be tolerated without a perversion of the economic system.
As the whole of an establishment becomes larger its product becomes cheaper; but, in the enlargement, there should be no undue stinting in the amount of land used.
When people are very poor for their position in life, they can only keep out of debt by stinting on many occasions when stinting is very painful to a liberal spirit.
Yes, and I have seen that stinting has not a happy effect.
I'm sick of this talking religion, but you'll see it written plain on furrow and stock that when the Almighty gives the good soil freely He expects something back, and not a stinting of dumb beasts and land to roll up money in the bank.
Stinting is only another name for work and patience and economy combined, and it brings its inevitable fruit--Success!
What's the use stinting and pinching oneself into a straight and narrow track when those out on the broad way are having all the life--and getting away with it?
He knew himself to be a shepherd who did not fear the noonday heat; but he was wrong in this,--that he suspected all other shepherds ofstinting their work.
When there she told her budget of news,--not stinting her child of the gratification which it was sure to give.
His tyrant subjected him to duties the most troublesome and humiliating, while denying, or stinting him of all those privileges which were yet commonly accorded to his comrades.
A survey of the quantity in the granary of the fortress, made immediately after the departure of the fleet, led to the necessity of stinting the daily allowance of the garrison.
When he awoke he was ravenously hungry, and in a day or two he began to abuse the nurse who tended him for stinting his victuals.
There was no thought in those fresh days of stinting labour or of making rules for it--so many hours for work and so many hours for recreation, and such and such hours for meals.
