close-handed

What makes us more close-handed than we ought to be is when we look too carefully, and too far forward, in contemplating the dangers that may occur—when we are excessively cautious and careful—when we calculate too narrowly what we will require during our whole life, or, in fine, how much we lose when the smallest portion is taken away.

How Calvinists Spread Thanksgiving Cheer Aaron Belz 2011

Both officers admit hitting Gauthier with "close-handed hard strikes" until he was handcuffed.

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

And when they were placed before him he showed them to his nobles, and he said that whoever would go forth to combat the wild boars should not find him close-handed.

The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002

Emily's French blood made her as close-handed as any native Yankee.

Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999

The mistake of many of the officials, although not of all, was, that they regarded such exceptional things as an index to the general state of the country, built theories upon them, and sent those theories up to their superiors, which helped to make them close-handed and suspicious.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

But though the cap is now exchanged for a crown, and the stadtholder is a monarch, the policy seems to flourish on the old footing of their close-handed fathers.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

It is also necessary that a young man be rather taught to be discreetly-sparing and close-handed, than prodigally-wastfull and lavish in his expences, and moderate in husbanding his wealth when he shall come to possesse it.

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

'Twill be but fire light then, for th 'old woman she never would bring out the lamp afore 'twas night, close-handed old she-cat as her was, what'd lick up a drop of oil on to the tongue of her sooner nor it should go wasted.

Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892

'If in His gifts and benefits He were more sparing and close-handed,' said Luther, 'we should learn to be thankful.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

But he's very near -- close-handed; and if he had meant to flit to Thrushcross Grange, as soon as he heard of a good tenant he could not have borne to miss the chance of getting a few hundreds more.

Wuthering Heights 1847