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My hunting pal (who already has a slate call) is a gadget guy, and teases me for my pennypinching, so I decided to use all salvaged materials.
Field & Stream 2009
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My hunting pal (who already has a slate call) is a gadget guy, and teases me for my pennypinching, so I decided to use all salvaged materials.
Field & Stream 2009
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They sure as hell did, since they charged it the previous 8,000 times, but somehow they lost it, so they annoyed the crap out of me for a week with their pennypinching understaffed customer service line.
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During this prolonged period of enforced conviviality, various boring announcements will also be made about the corporation's "thrilling" past and its equally "thrilling" future, while those listening in the audience will be mindful of the pennypinching which necessitates everybody sharing a bedroom.
Something, nothing Alistair Myles 2006
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During this prolonged period of enforced conviviality, various boring announcements will also be made about the corporation's "thrilling" past and its equally "thrilling" future, while those listening in the audience will be mindful of the pennypinching which necessitates everybody sharing a bedroom.
Archive 2006-06-01 Alistair Myles 2006
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Interspecies harmony wore thin in the galactic boondocks, especially between humanity's lower orders and the snotty Joru, who had a rep for pennypinching.
Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001
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He had once been a pennypinching Edinburgh chandler, people said, selling candies and gin from a comer shop, and no more honest than he had to be.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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It's just brutal pennypinching at the expense of the most vulnerable, and it's going to get worse every year.
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It's just brutal pennypinching at the expense of the most vulnerable, and it's going to get worse every year.
The Guardian World News Polly Toynbee 2010
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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE By Ginny Smith There was no shortage of gardening books in pennypinching 2009, but who wants or needs to buy them all?
WN.com - Articles related to BBC gardener Cushnie dies of heart attack 2010
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