stingily

Updated: August 18, 2024

Let not my southern reader who associates ideas of comfort with the term "cottage" mistake. This thing is built of shingle, with low walls. Its thatch is hollow; the peat-smoke curls stingily from its stunted chimney. It is worthy of its savage surroundings. The primitive neighbours remark that no rowan-tree grows near, nor holly, nor bracken, and no horseshoe is nailed on the door.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5

Thereupon the consuls gave out a contract for the restoration of the colonnade of Catulus: the contractors immediately cleared that portico of his away to the satisfaction of all. The rest was valued very stingily. You will say, "What was the reason?" They for their part say it was my modesty because I would neither say no, nor make any violent expostulation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1: The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order

While we were always in dread of satiety, we have contrived to drain each joy of its best virtues. No dreams of poetry, no creations of art, touch our hearts with a sweet rapture. We stingily hoard up within our breasts the last remnants of feeling a treasure concealed by avarice, and which remains utterly unprofitable.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Liza: "A nest of nobles"

Now these are really too many good things for one inhabitant of this most stingily provided world; and in one single day too, which, once begun, is so soon ended; and justice requires that we should lend a helping hand to destiny, and cut off the head of this poppy that aspires to rise above its brethren; the thousands who have less good fortune than he would otherwise have great cause to complain of neglect."

Georg Ebers - Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works

They are more likely to give away capital recklessly than to withhold it stingily when any alleged case of misfortune is before them. They rejoice to see any man succeed in improving his position.

William Graham Sumner - What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Now these are really too many good things for one inhabitant of this most stingily provided world; and in one single day too, which, once begun, is so soon ended; and justice requires that we should lend a helping hand to destiny, and cut off the head of this poppy that aspires to rise above its brethren; the thousands who have less good fortune than he would otherwise have great cause to complain of neglect."

Georg Ebers - The Sisters — Complete

"When," he said, "you have conquered the country from which incense comes, Alexander, then you may make such rich offerings as these; but at present you must use what we have sparingly." Alexander now wrote to him, "We have sent you abundance of frankincense and myrrh, that you may no longer treat the gods so stingily."

Plutarch - Plutarch's Lives Volume III.