miser's

But he gripped his life with a miser's clutch and would not let it go.

NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

When an old miser's cook asks for some string to truss a turkey, he hands her an old shoelace out of his frockcoat pocket and says, "Give it back."

Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011

In the day, I mark the time obsessively - this many minutes before the girl goes to preschool, this many minutes before she comes home, this many minutes until the boy should be ready to try another nap, this many minutes before he'll probably wake up, the minutes counted like a miser's pennies, added and subtracted, piling up and disappearing as I settle my accounts with daily chores and this persistent exhaustion.

Archive 2008-09-28 2008

In the day, I mark the time obsessively - this many minutes before the girl goes to preschool, this many minutes before she comes home, this many minutes until the boy should be ready to try another nap, this many minutes before he'll probably wake up, the minutes counted like a miser's pennies, added and subtracted, piling up and disappearing as I settle my accounts with daily chores and this persistent exhaustion.

Deep Into The Darkness 2008

Freed of its instrumental origin, the miser's desire for money can conflict with and override the prudential concern from which it originated.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

Outside of this miser's box, there is nothing worth considering, in their eyes.

conventional wisdom Dean Francis Alfar 2005

But, over time, the miser's desire transfers from the ends to the means such that he develops a concern for money for its own sake, independently of its instrumental value.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

In this way, the miser's concern for money can acquire psychological autonomy.

Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy Brink, David 2007

Throw in a dead miser's lost hoard, a suicide, and a "strip of human skin taken from the living body of a beautiful Circassian female slave . . . removed from her living body in a single strip as one peels an apple," and you've got something pulpy and penny-dreadful-ish, if not exactly groovy.

Archive 2006-10-15 2006

Throw in a dead miser's lost hoard, a suicide, and a "strip of human skin taken from the living body of a beautiful Circassian female slave . . . removed from her living body in a single strip as one peels an apple," and you've got something pulpy and penny-dreadful-ish, if not exactly groovy.

THE WOLF IN THE GARDEN by Alfred H. Bill (Centaur 1972) 2006