But neither of these arguments was sufficient to convince Aunt Elizabeth, in spite of the thrifty streak that came to her from the Burnleys.
" "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.
In spite of all the arts known to a thrifty New England woman, the limit of letting down and piecing down was reached at last, and the dresses were sent to Sunnybrook Farm to be made over for Jenny.
She peeled the potatoes with more than her usual thrifty care; the peel was so thin as to be almost transparent.
Whatever thrifty, hard-working farmer folk might think of gay, Bohemian Blair Stanley in his absence, in his presence even they liked him, by the grace of some winsome, lovable quality in the soul of him.
Molly put her sack on as the easiest way of carrying it, and, extricating Boo, they went off, accompanied by the boys, "to make sure of the fellows" also, leaving Jill to sit among the apples, singing and sorting like a thrifty little housewife.
She looked like a thrifty little housewife as she sat with her basket beside her full of neat white rolls, her spools set forth, and a new pair of scissors shining on the table.
" asked Merry, who, in spite of her little elegancies, had a good deal of her thrifty mother's common sense.
Farmer Grant was a thrifty, well-to-do man, anxious to give his children greater advantages than he had enjoyed, and to improve the fine place of which he was justly proud.
She possessed a thrifty common sense; and it was she who handled the finances of the family, and met all comers when there were bills to pay.
Rest assured that your thrifty habits get you a good deal, but always read the fine print carefully.
A thrifty father of two is living completely mortgage-free after swapping his family home for a double-decker bus.
Chinese are known to be thrifty and pragmatic so if you try to persuade them to accept dryer the machine has to be energy- efficient small quiet and multi-functional.
Pinch pennies– to be very careful with money, to be thrifty : My grandfather always pinches pennies; he never spends money if he doesn't have to.
And thrifty environmentalists rejoice at the lack of chemicals in and on their bodies - not to mention the impact on their budgets.
Pinch pennies– to be very careful with money, to be thrifty : My grandfather always pinches pennies; he never spends money if he doesn't have to.
The thrifty home – a 2.
Pinch pennies – to be very careful with money, to be thrifty 8.
But the view from the streets is rather less gung ho, with restaurants as likely to be stuffed with thrifty grannies as the upwardly mobile middle-class patrons referred to by Mr Loeb.
My mother had been a very hard working, industrious and thrifty woman with strong Chinese traditional virtues.
