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Example sentences for "thrifle"

Lexicographically close words:
thridding; thrids; thrie; thried; thries; thrift; thriftily; thriftiness; thriftless; thriftlesse
  1. Kape way from a man that has been a thrifle crossed in love till the fever's died down.

  2. Barney Grattan wishes to have a thrifle o' speech wid his honor.

  3. The supreme moment had really arrived some time before, but he is waiting for Farmer Brodigan with his daughter Kathleen, and the Widdy Sullivan, and a few other local worthies who are a 'thrifle late on him.

  4. Marius is doing finely, sir, barring his cough, and the thrifle that ails his hind legs.

  5. I did, sor, and see the thrifle the blag'yard gave me for'm!

  6. Faith, me boy, that dimonstrates the advantage of a big horse; for, if ye saw the tail of him a thrifle behind, shure the other end of him was a wee bit in front?

  7. Some were hoarse wid laughin'; some turned up their eyes wid wondher; many thought them mad; and others thought they had turned up their little fingers a thrifle too often.

  8. But sure he might happen to git a thrifle more wit yet; he's no great age to spake of.

  9. O, it's a thrifle makes fools laugh," said Barny.

  10. I beg ye to accipt the thrifle as a prisent from Captain Landon, Second Mate Haynes and First Mate mesilf.

  11. I think we'll come to tarms, being there's only a difference of a thrifle of five or six thousand dollars in the price.

  12. And now we have got the fortifications one is a thrifle curious to know if the Johnnies could get into them.

  13. But Counsellor, darlin', give us a thrifle to dhrink your health with your first cause, and the Lord send you plenty of them!

  14. No gintilman would thrifle with a dacent woman afther this gate, whin he'd niver seen her.

  15. Shure isn't Pat Reynolds in Ballinamore Bridewell on his account, an' two other boys from the mountains behind Drumleesh, becaze they found a thrifle of half malted barley up there among them?

  16. Deed then there's no sperrits in it at all--only a thrifle to take the wakeness off the water.

  17. I did hear at the fair poor Paddy Smith was in throuble about a thrifle of sperits, or the like.

  18. Well then, it's only jist a pair of young pigs and a small thrifle of change.

  19. Captain, 'a thrifle of rint that's owing, nothing more.

  20. His face was rarely plasthered this mornin', as if he'd been in the war-r-rs a thrifle or so.

  21. You can get your breakfast a thrifle earlier than usual——" "Breakfast!

  22. I'll give her ayther of these saints for the smallest thrifle of agwardent;" and he pulled the images out of his jacket as he spoke.

  23. It's got a worse complaint than the colour, didn't yez fetch us a thrifle more of it, my darlint boy?

  24. An' she has lost the fine, comfortable place she had with Mrs. Green, jist for a thrifle of spaach.

  25. Kape away from a man that has been a thrifle crossed in love till the fever's died down.

  26. I looked a thrifle wiser than a boiled sheep's head.

  27. The college students were in great form, cheering with an inexhaustible vigour, every man smoking and carrying a "thrifle iv a switch.

  28. But they knew I had a thrifle of a sivin-shooter, an' bad luck to the one o' thim that dared mislist me at all.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrifle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.