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1. Luray got a little drifty too, but she was obviously used to this condition because she led him past some of the trickier steps when it was time to move on
2. You need to be more thrifty
3. But, partly Charles and E were thrifty…and E had worked for a number of years when their kids got older and I think they banked much of her salary, using the rest of it to finance their vacations
4. settled down quietly on his paternal estate, and in all probability history would never have known his name if the intolerable persecution of a neighboring Polish squire, who stole his hayricks and flogged his infant son to death, had not converted the thrifty and acquisitive Cossack husbandman into one of the most striking and sinister figures of modern times
5. They are shrewd in business, acute in reasoning, thrifty, religious, sober, charitable, obedient to parents, reverential to old age, amiable, law-abiding, compassionate towards the helpless and patient under suffering
6. Lawns, dotted with the occasional unthrifty shrub, still separated them from the neatly curbed and channelled road
7. THRIFTY WAYS TO SAVE MONEY
8. What if he failed leading to his fall? But what were the alternatives? Any way, a thrifty life of penny saving wouldn’t do either, as it would only turn pound foolish in the end, wouldn’t it? The big buck was the key but where would that come from? How was he to surmount the odds and cross the hurdles to pull it off in a big way?
9. Some would call him thrifty; he would call himself smart
10. Similarly, there is a small distinction between being a miser and being thrifty
11. An essential part of this model is the strong reduction of government spending that allows, not only a strong market, but a pay down of the national debt in big chunks $400B/yr, turning a non-sustainable government into a sustainable thrifty government by comparison
12. He often fancied himself a thrifty thinker of sorts
13. Doing things half assed and being thrifty was a trait that always ran in
14. If one is to live in a thrifty manner, it is best to die rather than live in need
15. His wife is thrifty; they have only the one son; they live frugally; long ago they must have put by enough to keep them warm and fed and clothed without his doing another stroke of work
16. The church was full, the Sunday-school well attended, the Sabbath was kept holy, the women were one and all sober and thrifty, the men were fairly satisfactory except on Saturday nights, there was no want, little sickness, and very seldom downright sin
17. Thrifty Ways to Save Money
18. That table came to represent years of thrifty, virtuous, religious dedication to hard work
19. Churchgoers began to become thrifty and were praised for not being wasteful
20. In the past, the idea of a multimillionaire spending 5 per cent of his or her wealth each year might have seemed positively thrifty
21. formerly thrifty are tossing their money into the sea, the formerly honest are looting the few small stores on the island, and the formerly friendly are beating their best friends with sticks
22. the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery,
23. Peggy too was thrifty, and how could she manage
24. Instead of the unthrifty, unruly, nondescript crowd the boilers require, a crowd of men IN the ship but not OF her, we shall have comparatively small crews of disciplined, intelligent workers, able to steer the ship, handle anchors, man boats, and at the same time competent to take their place at a bench as fitters and repairers; the resourceful and skilled seamen--mechanics of the future, the legitimate successors of these seamen--sailors of the past, who had their own kind of skill, hardihood, and tradition, and whose last days it has been my lot to share
25. This sum represented the thrifty savings of years, but the poor woman parted with it willingly in order that the boy should become a skilled workman
26. `'Ear, 'ear,' said everybody except Crass and Slyme, who were both thrifty working men, and each of them had some money saved in one or other of the institutions mentioned
27. On the contrary that stab in the back touch was quite in keeping with those italianos though candidly he was none the less free to admit those icecreamers and friers in the fish way not to mention the chip potato variety and so forth over in little Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic de rigueur off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap
28. In mid-September, Joe returned from the Grand Coulee with enough money to make it through another year if he was thrifty
29. She was a thrifty and kind mistress, a good mother and a devoted wife
30. "What kind of wife do you think would be best for me as a thrifty
31. Despite these mediocre operating results, Hertz was able to borrow $1,950,000,000 to fund the $2,200,000,000 acquisition of Dollar Thrifty Group (DTG) which closed on November 16, 2012
32. People had always thought that if you were out of work it was somehow your fault – the unemployed were often referred to as ‘the Idle’, which tells you a lot about how they were regarded – but the Depression showed that disaster could happen to anyone, no matter how hard-working or thrifty they might be
33. She did not understand why he spoke with such admiration and delight of the farming of the thrifty and well-to-do peasant Matthew Ermishin, who with his family had carted corn all night; or of the fact that his (Nicholas’) sheaves were already stacked before anyone else had his harvest in
34. Farther down the hill, on the left, on the old road in the woods, are marks of some homestead of the Stratton family; whose orchard once covered all the slope of Brister's Hill, but was long since killed out by pitch pines, excepting a few stumps, whose old roots furnish still the wild stocks of many a thrifty village tree
35. Janet is a dear soul and very nicelooking; tall, but not over-tall; stoutish, yet with a certain restraint of outline suggestive of a thrifty soul who is not going to be overlavish even in the matter of avoirdupois
36. The Russian woman gives everything at once when she loves— the moment and her whole destiny and the present and the future: she does not know how to be thrifty, she keeps nothing hidden in reserve; and their beauty is quickly consumed upon him whom they love
37. She did not understand why he spoke with such admiration and delight of the farming of the thrifty and well-to-do peasant Matthew Ermíshin, who with his family had carted corn all night; or of the fact that his (Nicholas’) sheaves were already stacked before anyone else had his harvest in
38. They were a comely, thrifty-looking set, and the instinctive hopefulness of their race looked from the bright eyes and shone in the cheery faces
