Besides, his cheerful temper enabled him to make light of more grievous misfortunes than the getting of a loving wife and thrifty helpmeet ten years older than himself.
The liar choked upon his choicest lie, And impotent alike to villify Or flatter for the gold of thrifty men Who hate his person but employ his pen-- Who love and loathe, respectively, the dirt Belonging to his character and shirt?
This act, from high Ben Lomond where she floats, The thrifty goddess, Caledonia, notes.
Each thrifty heir, to make the gift suffice, Buries the talent to manure the vice.
If Alcott helped himself to the thrifty Emerson's vegetables, both Emerson and Thoreau helped themselves to Alcott's ideas.
Thus we find this thrifty poet at forty with a fortune equal to a half-million dollars.
This leads to the question of removal from home of feeble-minded children to permanent custodial care in institutions provided especially for their segregation, possible teaching and thriftyuse of small work-power.
It is similar to its parent but is a freestone and the trees are more compact and thrifty than those of Chinese Cling.
In very dry and exposed places, it is said to lose its tree-characters and to become a thrifty shrub.
Compare this account (of thriftyorchards in Delaware) with the actual state of the peach in our country, and judge whether we live in a region favorable to its growth.
Some rested with this; but the more thrifty would soon replace their cabins with hewn log or frame houses, plant kitchen gardens and watermelon patches, set out orchards and increase the cotton acreage.
The crop from a few acres brings dollars enough to carry the thrifty Cape Codder through the year.
On the farther uplands are thrifty farms, set amid orchards of wind-blown trees.
Florida is a relatively new and scantily populated State; there are here no great reserves of cash and securities, accumulated and bequeathed by generations of toiling and thrifty ancestors, as in some parts of the country.
What she needs is additional thousands of intelligent, energetic, thrifty and experienced farmers, who will take advantage of the opportunities she offers and develop to the full her immense and latent resources.
You have had in the city of Kokomo an enterprising and thrifty county town.
I can most sincerely commend what I see in these farms and thrifty homes.
I am glad to have the opportunity to pause some moments in the city of Troy, to look into the faces of its industrious and thrifty population.
You have come to know now that not only the surface of the soil has wealth in it, but that under the surface there are vast sources of wealth to gladden the homes of your people and to bring with new industries a thrifty population.
But, sir, I felt determined to mark the spot, and walking to a thrifty ash sapling, I cut out of it three large chips, and ran off.
On the plateaus, at the foot of towering cliffs, are numerous little farms in a thrifty state of cultivation.
At Mojave, another thrifty town of considerable size, where connections are made with the Atlantic and Pacific Railway, our train stops to attach a helper engine.
Irrigating ditches, fertile fields, thrifty orchards, and blooming gardens are all seen in that fleeting glance, and we are more than ever impressed with the fact that it needs but water to convert these desert tracts into verdant fields.
It is growing dark as we emerge from the fastness and solitude of this Oregon wilderness, but can easily discern that it is a change for the better, for we enter a valley teeming with fields of waving grain and orchards of thrifty trees.
He's thrifty in the wrong place, and can't help it; but once get him away from home and he develops and does well, as times go.
It is a reproach to Londoners, who are so extravagant with water, to see how thrifty the people are.
Once outside the charmed circle of his native land, a Cornishman gets on just as well as a Scotchman, and is as thrifty as need be.
Thus: The thrifty that teacheth the thriving to thrive, Teach timely to traverse the thing that thou 'trive, and so on.
In Works and Days he sang of what he knew best, the country round, and sang it as a poet should who was also a shrewd farmer and thrifty husbandman.
The thrifty and intelligent farmers of the neighborhood were in the habit of taking summer boarders, and the place had become a favorite resort.
A thrifty fellow is the Busy Bee And fortified against Emergency.
A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
While, however, we would not venture to question the general utility of his directions, we may perhaps say, that we have found our own plan effective in its results, and productive of thrifty plants and beautiful flowers.
Many fine varieties of the summer roses will sucker in this way, and an old plant when taken up will sometimes furnish a large number of thrifty stems, each with a portion of root attached.
They will soon begin to put forth their thrifty shoots, in some six weeks will present a fine show of beautiful flowers, and, if properly managed, will continue blooming through the winter.
Nothing is more injurious to the Rose than a wet, retentive subsoil; and where expense and trouble are no object, this perfect draining is much the best calculated to ensure a thrifty growth and perfect bloom.
A vigorous grower, and has large and thrifty foliage.
It was the thrifty or patient young woman who was fortunate in being selected by a young man,--by any young man; for the character of the youth is never stated.
Now, what shows the state of public sentiment is the fact that in none of these legends is it intimated that the young man was fortunate in securing a thrifty or a patient wife.
Now therefore look to Dora; she is well To look to; thrifty too beyond her age.
The Germans, as a whole, furnished a conservative andthrifty agricultural element to the Middle West.
He knew very well that it was a Red Squirrel, for the Red Squirrels are not sothrifty as most of the nut-eaters.
