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Editorial Diatribe from the Catacombs: Racism Chuck Wells 2009

Mrs. Arlbery bore her own share in this accident with perfect good-humour, saying it would do her infinite good, by making her a rigid oeconomist; for she could neither live without a phaeton, nor yet build one, and buy ponies, but by parsimonious savings from all other expenses.

Camilla 2008

Besides his half-pay, amounting to two and forty pounds a year, this indefatigable oeconomist has amassed eight hundred pounds, which he has secured in the funds.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

But I hope you have been taught to judge properly of such men, and that it would be even madness to expect happiness from one who has been so very bad an oeconomist of his own.

The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

Keimer himself treated me with great civility and apparent regard, and nothing now made me uneasy but my debt to Vernon, which I was yet unable to pay, being hitherto but a poor oeconomist.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1994 Edition) 1909

Mrs. Arlbery bore her own share in this accident with perfect good-humour, saying it would do her infinite good, by making her a rigid oeconomist; for she could neither live without a phaeton, nor yet build one, and buy ponies, but by parsimonious savings from all other expenses.

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

Keimer himself treated me with great civility and apparent regard, and nothing now made me uneasy but my debt to Vernon, which I was yet unable to pay, being hitherto but a poor oeconomist.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1771

I know she is an admirable oeconomist; I resolved to imitate her, and I hoped in time to retrieve our circumstances.

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 1767

And this, till his brother's death, was the whole of his income; but he is so good an oeconomist, that he always made a genteeller figure on his three hundred pounds a year, than his brother did on twelve.

Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 1767

He was, however, satisfied, and willing to retire, and was convinced that the allowance, though scanty, would be more than sufficient for him, being now determined to commence a rigid oeconomist.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753