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Strictly economical, proud in an old-fashioned mode now quite out of fashion to conceal the fact of their poverty, painfully scrupulous to avoid giving inconvenience to shop-people, tradesmen or servants, their whole financial career had to be carried on with the adroitness of a campaign through a hostile country.
That age of economical statesmanship which Lord Shelburne had predicted in 1787, when he demolished, in the House of Lords, Bishop Watson and the Balance of Trade, which Mr.
The stick fell in the direction of Ramsbottom, then a little village in the bottom of the valley, on the river Irwell. There they went, and found employment. They were thrifty, economical, and hard-working; and they soon saved money. Their savings became capital, and they invested it in a little print work. Their capital grew, and they went on investing it in print works and cotton mills.
He called it "an economical project," and calculated the saving that might be made in the city of Paris, by using the sunshine instead of the candles at no less than 4,000,000l. sterling. Light exercises a very remarkable influence upon the irritability of the sensitive plant.
'Of course it's on the cards, Mr Grendall, that we shall have to put you into a witness-box, because there are certain things we must get at. Miles was silent as the grave, but at once made up his mind that he would pass his autumn at some pleasant but economical German retreat, and that his autumnal retirement should be commenced within a very few days; or perhaps hours might suffice.
Hallin left Cambridge after a pass degree to become lecturer on industrial and economical questions in the northern English towns.
We paid a penny a loaf for having our bread baked." "Oh, and that saved you buying so much coal, didn't it?" asked Maizie. "I wish we had an ovenry in Anchorville." "Yes," said Drusilla, "I think, myself, some of these old-fashioned ideas were economical." "There isn't a pawn shop anywhere near, is there?" asked Suzanna.
Among a people of the same lineage and the same language, but yesterday contented under the same Constitution, and in an age when a victory in the stock-market is of more consequence than successes in the field, political and economical necessities may be safely reckoned on as slow, but effective, allies of the old order of things.
"So, grandfather has turned matchmaker. I'll warrant he thinks you are a skinflint, and will take care of his money." "That's it, Dick. He thinks I'm the most economical person. I saw him looking at my dress, a cheap, tweed walking affair. Oh, good gracious, if he had seen my wardrobe at home, or the housekeeping and the stable accounts!" "Then, you'll have to keep it up, darling.
Whether the process will prove more convenient and economical than the original Boucherie process can only be determined by practical application upon an extensive scale.
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