Every time she read her little hoard of manuscripts over she found some of which the fairy gold had unaccountably turned to withered leaves, fit only for the burning.
" "Breaking into the principal" was, in the minds of most thrifty New England women, a sin only second to arson, theft, or murder; and, though the rule was occasionally carried too far for common sense,—as in this case, where two elderly women of sixty might reasonably have drawn something from their little hoard in time of special need,—it doubtless wrought more of good than evil in the community.
Well, there was one thing to be said for young Mynors, he would put money to good use; you might rely he would not hoard it up same as it had been hoarded up.
She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs.
His tone and look assured her he had not been the discoverer of the hoard.
Impelled by an irresistible presentiment, you will eagerly advance to it, unlock its folding doors, and search into every drawer—but for some time without discovering anything of importance—perhaps nothing but a considerable hoard of diamonds.
Her little hoard of savings had been estimated so carefully in connection with her expenses that she knew almost to a penny what her very small surplus would be when she returned to work.
Olive would get Valancy's share of his fat hoard.
The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.
To hoard days as a miser does dollars, to make every hour bring me dividends in specific results accomplished.
For example, a northern Chinese may wonder why their southern fellows must have stir-fried vegetables as the last dish for a meal, while the southerner may be surprised to know that people from north always hoard cabbages before winter.
To hoard days as a miser does dollars, to make every hour bring me dividends in specific results accomplished.
Lemons When life gives you lemons, take them and hoard them because you have yourself a seriously underrated superfood.
That's not much within the context of the world's growing data hoard.
Even when he teams up with a *dauntless *bruiser and a high school baseball player to fight the zombie hoard, the viewer can guess that his only motivation is the survival of him and his daughter.
To hoard days as a miser does dollars, to make every hour bring me dividends in specific results accomplished.
It amounts to a hoard of data to be mined for advertisers and licensed to marketers so that salesprofessionals people can pitch to potential buyers.
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
But Didi's strongest card in this rapidly accelerating game of automotive chicken may not be its growing cash hoard.
Leslie says, "A starved body during the week will hoard calories on the weekend if it is a normal pattern.
