Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 4, 2025
"Have you bought some of the stock?" the barber asked, abruptly, of the postmaster, who smiled mysteriously and hedged. "Well, maybe I have, and maybe again I haven't," said he. "Have you, John?" "Not yet," replied the barber. "I am deflecting upon the matter. It requires considerable loggitation when a man has penuriously saved a circumscribed sum from the sweat of his brow." "That's so.
Unable, whatever his own straits, to deal penuriously with my one, Will had thought out a liberal arrangement, whereby all the dwelling part of the house should be given over, rent free, to Allchin and his wife, with permission to take one lodger; the assistant to be paid a small salary, and a percentage on shop takings when they reached a certain sum per month.
To hain anything is, Anglicè, to deal very carefully, penuriously about it tyne, to lose. Scott often used to say "hain a pen and tyne a pen," which is nearer the proverb alluded to. Scott's amiable friend died 24th Oct. 1828. John Adam, Esq., died on shipboard on his passage homewards from Calcutta, 4th June 1825. The Right Hon. W. Adam of Blairadam, born in 1751.
Martine herself lived at Sainte-Marthe, in a retired corner, so penuriously that she must be still saving even out of her small income. She was not known to have any heir. Who, then, would profit by this miserliness? In ten months she had not once set foot in La Souleiade monsieur was not there, and she had not even the desire to see monsieur's son.
His habits were temperate to austerity, and his mode of life penuriously mean; but, as said of another judge, this may have been the result of habit growing from extreme necessity though the same characteristics were conspicuous in his brother: like the Judge, he was unmarried, and, though but little younger, was always spoken to and spoken of as his boy-brother.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking