niggard

• We abused him yesterday as a niggard; let us have the grace to-day to say we were mistaken." —  The Nebuly Coat
• The Highland soldier, far from his country, is accompanied by this holy love, this inexhaustible stimulus to exertion, which induces him to save with what may be unjustly called a niggard hand his earnings, to support, in their old age, those who have given him birth. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
• If the captain did not set the rum punch flowing with sufficient liberality they would "pay him with their worst Wood," and "commonly" they "had a stock of such" ready for the niggard when he came. —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
• No contrast is discoverable between a place of torments and a realm of joy; at the worst but a negative castigation awaited the liar, the coward, or the niggard. —  The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
• (When a man suddenly changes his character, as when a spendthrift becomes saving, or a niggard generous, the Scotch say that he is fey_, and consider the change a forerunner of sudden death No, my friends," said Israel, overhearing the remark, "I am not fey_; and I mean to live a long while, Heaven willing, for I have just learned that the true secret of enjoying life is to do good to others. —  The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales

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