Usar "niggardly" en una oración

1. continued only one niggardly week

2. 10 A wicked eye envies his bread, and he is niggardly at his table

3. Never could Philip find anything in Jesus which was small, niggardly, or stingy, and he worshiped this ever-present and unfailing liberality

4. Each generation passing on what niggardly scraps it was lucky enough to be given

5. Today: this practice of niggardly spirituality is upheld as normal: just as the rest of the years total lack of any spiritual development or practice is also considered to be normal

6. Now that’s love! Not the niggardly shit of scrooge’s few English pounds here and there

7. The English destroyed themselves by their own niggardly selfishness of not allowing anyone else into the lucrative trading empires they had swindled millions of natives out of and built up over 100’s of years of piracy, smuggling and trading in slaves and drugs

8. Holmes, you will have no reason to complain of niggardly treatment

9. As we came closer and closer to the Great City of London, my Heart beat faster and faster; and, in truth, ’twas easy enough to tell we were approaching the Metropolis, for the Thames became a Sea of Masts, and the whole Surface of the River was cover’d with Barges, Wherries, Boats of divers Sizes, with grizzly old Tritons rowing, and shouts of “Next Oars!” and “Skullers!” echoing in our Ears, and such a Volley of Bad Language from the Boatmen that ’twas amazing my Ears did not turn red for Shame owing to the Indignities that enter’d there! Whoe’er would ride in a hir’d Barge had no Choyce but to submit to the Language of the Rogues who rul’d the River, and I o’erheard many Arguments about Rates betwixt the Watermen and their “Bargees”—and not once but sev’ral Times did my Ears hear a Waterman shout, “Ye niggardly Sons of Bitches!” as he attempted to o’erturn his Customers into the Water because they refus’d sufficiently to grease his Palm

10. Ah Cruel Irony! Bellars despis’d Love that was freely given, but grew mad as a rabid Dog for Love denied, niggardly Love, Love that was not e’en Love but only Coquetry

11. A niggardly policy has often been imposed on a company because its financial position is relatively weak, and it has needed all or most of its earnings (plus depreciation charges) to pay debts and bolster its working-capital position

12. He was a different person: the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush--this man went out on the street in the midst of ecstatic signed letters, gallant gifts, imprudent vigils at the pigeonkeeper’s house, even on two occasions when her husband was not on a trip or at the market

13. They came from Exeter, well provided with admiration for the use of Sir John Middleton, his family, and all his relations, and no niggardly proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins, whom they declared to be the most beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and agreeable girls they had ever beheld, and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted

14. I was silent and concentrated, attentive and extremely calculating ; I was patient and niggardly, and at the same time resolute at critical moments

15. Blum knew no one in the town except the German chemist, had not called on anyone, and led, as he always did, a lonely and niggardly existence

16. He is niggardly about other things, but he will give the horse because it is no advantage to him to refuse

17. It is a niggardly sort of policy that I am sorry to see engrafted in the bill