英语词汇“thriftless”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was in Albuquerque and it rained every day but no one collected the water,” one woman said in a scandalised tone, deflecting shame on to thriftless New Mexicans. California city sends its water wasters back to school as drought deepens 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Amidst that great household, where the thriftless habits of the master had descended to the servants, and rendered all reckless and wasteful alike, Darby had thriven and grown almost rich. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z

He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z

Indeed, the site was formed by nature for prosperity;160 and a bad government and a thriftless people could not prevent the increase of the colony. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z

With many noble exceptions, the large landed proprietors of Ireland are heartless, reckless, thriftless men. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z

They are thriftless and good-for-nothing, Lowlanders on the steamer assured us. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z

Instead of these, however, there is a race who seem to live there, less wretched perhaps in actual want 369 of bread, but as evidently thriftless, homeless, and friendless as the other. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z

A few minutes' time; a gossip with Mrs. Quale, touching the doings of Daffodil's Delight, and a groan at those thriftless Shucks, in their pigsty of a room. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z

The lords of the soil were petty nobles, for the most part soldiers, or the sons of soldiers, proud and ostentatious, thriftless and poor; and the people were their vassals. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z

While he would possess a clear recollection of the thriftless farmer who had dropped the money while ploughing through a hole in his pocket. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z

Yet, in being thriftless and apathetic, they are but obeying a natural law which the modern state socialist is too apt to minimize if not to ignore. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z

The whole household, for such it seems to be, are poor, very poor; thriftless, unambitious; the men somewhat given to drink to excess; yet the spirit of neighborliness shames criticism. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z

Wherever a standard is raised, it is quickly surrounded by the idlers, the thriftless, and the improvident, who are willing, at least, to be supported if not munificently recompensed for the task of bearing arms. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z

The Creole of the Illinois, contented, light-hearted, and thriftless, by no means fulfilled the injunction to increase and multiply; and the colony languished in spite of the fertile soil. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z

He was a thriftless fellow, and, as he told me, had lived principally by the labour of his wife, who washed for European travellers. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z

After these events Ka Panshandi’s name became a mockery and a proverb in the land; ballads were sung setting forth her fate as a warning to lazy and thriftless wives. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z

Shiftlessness, thriftless uncleanliness marks even the sidewalk about this house. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z

I was a close student, of a rather retiring disposition, a stone-mason by trade, careless and indifferent to public honors, and so thriftless that many trifling neighborhood debts had accumulated against me. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z

But the weak and thriftless Angeli were able neither to find money nor to maintain discipline. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z

He was a dissolute, thriftless fellow, every faculty of whose low mind seemed to have been concentrated into the one mean gift of cunning. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z

I know you of old: you would have a rouse with that thriftless babe my husband. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z

They did not belong to the race which too frequently make thrift a vice, but were descendants of one the world counts thriftless. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z

In a subsequent letter to Williams he spoke of his sister's children as if they were all thriftless. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z

He remembered that Mikita had nine ragged children, and that a shower of riches coming thus suddenly could be no blessing, since, no doubt, it would teach him to be thriftless. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z

From the thriftless borders of ripening weeds busy flocks of yellowbirds in faded plumage scatter in sudden flight at one's approach like upblown flurries of dun leaves. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z

She proved a prolific, thriftless woman and ill housekeeper, but through all the rubs and pinches of his after years he was ever an affectionate husband and father. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z

She created for that family a far better home than it had ever known under the shiftless, thriftless management of an undisciplined mother. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z

If ever there was a poor, moithering, thriftless thing, it's that mother of yours. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z

The poor are indolent, dirty, thriftless, and ill-housed; but that does not much matter, as most of their lives are passed in the open air. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z

To the same cause that has impoverished and dishonored us in all other respects—the thriftless and degrading institution of slavery. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z

The issuing of rations even to the extent of insuring the Indian against starvation has to a great extent removed the incentive to industry, and the Indian, being an Indian, has remained thriftless and indifferent. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z

The settlers want the lands of the lazy, the thriftless Spaniards. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z

The weeds do choke the thriftless fields, No profit now the harvest yields; Honey is sought, but only gall Is found, for still the prices fall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z

The Paston Letters, that unique collection of the private correspondence of a typical family of nouveaux riches, thriftless, pushing, unscrupulous, give us the true picture of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

From the present occupants, for the most part needy and thriftless speculators, they met with very different fare from what they had enjoyed under the former wealthy and luxurious proprietors. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies

The greedy are rebuked in the adage—"The eyes here are bigger than the stomach," and the thoughtless and thriftless are warned that "One may in seeking a farthing burn up three candles." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources

The Malay races, to which the Filipinos belong, are, like the negroes, careless, thriftless, and disinclined to continuous exertion. Races and Immigrants in America

He is thriftless, and takes no thought for the morrow. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document

All these facts make it sufficiently clear that England was irritated rather than crushed by Henry’s irregular taxation and thriftless expenditure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

They are a thriftless lazy lot, content to raise just sufficient for their actual wants and to pay for whisky. Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War

These were yet spotted over with stumps of trees, that seemed to leave but little freedom to the course of the ploughshare, and bespoke a thriftless and slovenly tillage. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency

But the backward, thriftless, and unintelligent races succeed best when employed in gangs on large estates. Races and Immigrants in America

So reckless and ruthless was he, so idle and thriftless, that he required for his precarious and beastly subsistence a domain which would furnish cities with all their comforts and luxuries. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867

But even in the wealthier abbeys we find traces of thriftless administration, idleness, self-indulgence and occasionally grave moral scandals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

Homeless, shiftless, thriftless, they knew no other names save those which chance or the coarse buffoonery of their friends had endowed them with. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

So much the worse for you, Fagan, and for your handsome daughter here,—not to speak of the poor thriftless devils, like myself, who are the objects of your industrious hours. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience

That they were busy years as regards his trade is certain from the success he achieved in it; and that Ramsay was neither a lazy, thriftless, shiftless, or vicious apprentice his after career effectually proves. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series

His father, an easy-going thriftless man, had fixed on no definite profession for him, dimly reckoning on the chance that “something was sure to turn up” when the boy was old enough. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley

There was a point beyond which it was unwise to provoke the baronage or the commons, and, unlike his flighty and thriftless father, he knew where that point came. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

Weeds grew apace, and Cassandra had much ado to hold her cousin Cotton Caswell, easy-going and thriftless, to his task of keeping the small farm in order. The Mountain Girl

Moreover, such wastefulness creates a tendency toward thriftless character among the people. Rural Health and Welfare

It is sad to think that in later life, poor easy-going, thriftless, careless, Bohemian Robert sank into neglect and consequent poverty. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

Learmont was a collected and an urbane character, and did much to temper and turn aside the thriftless ordinances of his superior. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters

It was thriftless, arbitrary, and lacking in continuity of policy, yet not tyrannical or cruel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

It had never dawned upon him that this shiftless, thriftless, worthless, sponging parasite was yet, after all and in spite of all, not mercenary in the issue of his thoughts; yet so it was. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI

Yet a general opinion prevails among foreigners that the Neapolitans are lazy, thriftless and helpless! The Naples Riviera

I have the thriftless conscience of a bird! L'Aiglon

He does not intend to spend many years in mining, or if he does, he has become thriftless and improvident. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining

The futile and thriftless yet busy and self-important king was one of those sovereigns who irritate their subjects into opposition by injudicious activity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

I am, you see, a thriftless, wandering adventurer––one who has taken things as they came, and never has been serious. The Greater Power

Something like a Beggars' Opera may be realised whilst sitting before Don Benigno's huge window on Saturday morning, and watching the thriftless performers as they pass. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba

This indiscriminate method of many of the transporting agencies undoubtedly made it possible for a great number of indigent and thriftless negroes simply to change the scene of their inaction. Negro Migration during the War

Think of him reckless, thriftless, vain if you like—but merciful, gentle, generous, full of love and pity. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges

Robert was thriftless, volatile and easy-going, a good knight but a most incompetent sovereign. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z

I am not going to encourage the thriftless, or help those who might help themselves, if they would think beforehand.” Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad

No other country is so thriftless as ours. England and Germany

But you will have little order and regulation about your house so long as you keep that thriftless Biddy in it. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848

Yet the one who pointed out this strangely-common error was a child belonging to one of the most thriftless of these frontier families. The Cabin on the Prairie

The inconsequent, lazy and thriftless life of the criminal demands some sort of stimulant, and this is found readily at hand in alcohol. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science

“A bit of Europe on one of our islands and really a lesson to our own thriftless poor.” A Modern Cinderella

This is not because the worker is idle or thriftless, but actually because he is too industrious and produces so much that his labour as a producer is at a discount. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals

In the meantime her father had died; the thriftless wife had broken his heart by her extravagant habits, and Lizzie and her brothers never received a penny of their mother's little fortune. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848

She had often scolded him for being thriftless and reckless, but had been as liberal with her loans and gifts as with her reproaches. The Golden House

At Reykjavik, it is true, there is a population of Danish sailors and fishermen, and it would be scarcely fair to form an opinion from the lazy and thriftless habits of the people there. The Land of Thor

This excludes the numbers of thriftless and otherwise helpless poor whose work is variable, and who, at the best, can earn only the lowest possible wages as unskilled laborers. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad

The Socialist agitators will explain that they are sorry to have made a mistake, whilst the thriftless are squandering the property of the thrifty. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals

They were a useless, worthless, thriftless set of people, too lazy and indolent to work, and too proud to be taught. . . . . Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject

Thus Arab life in Southern Morocco—a thriftless, desultory existence, yet with the charm of continual change and of living with the earth. In the Tail of the Peacock

White velvet sounds thriftless; but in Finland, in the summer, it is very hot and dry; in fact, the three or four months of summer are really summer in all its glory. Through Finland in Carts

The potato crop was a disastrous failure, and, as the summer waned, the distress of an impoverished and thriftless race grew acute. Lord John Russell

"Quiet Joe" made a good income by the practice of his profession; but he was a thriftless fellow who spent his earnings freely, and never paid income tax. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories

Knowing how particular his father was, he was greatly surprised at the thriftless look of everything. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

A purchaser was soon found for Phelim, and Teddy having doubled his money, felt rich and grand, and cast rather contemptuous looks on his thriftless cousin. Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children

Aside from Nash and his associates, and one or two families connected with the mill to the north, the villagers were poor, thriftless, and uninteresting. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

He had long waited for some chance to secure an advantage over his thriftless neighbor, and now that it had come he drove it home with all the solemnity and earnestness that he could command. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road

Not a word is left unsaid that can flatter the criminal or encourage the thriftless. American Sketches 1908

But one, I wis, was not at home; Another had paid his gold away; Another called him thriftless loon, And bade him sharply wend his way. The Book of Brave Old Ballads

It had transformed Ezekiel Taylor from an honest, industrious, and thriving man, into a mean, lazy, and thriftless drunkard. Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.

The Irish levies, in a state of more lax discipline, were collected in merry groups, whiling away the time in thriftless and noisy discourse. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

The thriftless were none the better for the prosperity which abounded, rather they were the worse. Tommy

A hard man he has been called, but he suits our thriftless laird all the better for that. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not

Away, away, thou thriftless loon; Away, away, this may not be; For Christ's curse on my head, he said, If ever I trust thee one pennie. The Book of Brave Old Ballads

Then again, successful coöperation is impossible to the thriftless. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers

"Verily, a fool's, lady," replied Ralph, "and a thriftless one, I fear me, into the bargain." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

The sky is thriftless with colours, The air delirious with songs. The Cycle of Spring

The slovenly and thriftless are overrun with them. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses

They were intemperate and thriftless, and passed the voyage in disorder. The History of Tasmania, Volume I

It is true that the man who merely hoards for the sake of hoarding, developing no new and higher wants, no clearly defined aims, will still be almost as helpless as the most thriftless. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers

Want of occupation breeds mischief, idleness being a thriftless carle that leaves the house empty, and the door open to the next comer—an opportunity of which the enemy is sure to avail himself. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2

It used to be frequently charged that drink was the chief cause of the poverty of the workers; that they were poor because they were drunken and thriftless. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg

This country was settled by the poor and thriftless and now few more than the poor and thriftless remain in it. Greener Than You Think

They are, in fact, no more idle, thriftless, passionate, or supercilious, than Northern women would be in similar circumstances. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

The thriftless and the extravagant, whether rich or poor, are often mean and self-indulgent, lacking the first quality of the unselfish in lacking self-control. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers

Selfish, thriftless, idle Martin, whom the boys called “Old Nebuly,” had not been mad after all, but had been Lord Blandamer. The Nebuly Coat

In few but pointed words he reproved thriftless and idle ways, and his respect and approbation were sought and valued. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886

The thriftless, who scratched the surface of the ground and then sold out to a newcomer of sterner fiber, passed on to a new frontier. Union and Democracy

Tennyson is not one of these thriftless people, and the "In Memoriam," read aright, leads one upward "upon the great world's altar-stairs that slope through darkness up to God". Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles

“You’ll have all the thriftless loons in the town bringing you their boots and shoes to mend.” The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn

If the fences are broken down, the paths are unkept, the flower-beds full of weeds, we may be pretty sure the inhabitants are idle, thriftless, perhaps intemperate. Life and Conduct

The Muhammadan Bhīls are with few exceptions a miserable lot, idle and thriftless, and steeped in the deadly vice of opium-eating. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II

The place was the last refuge of the destitute; the social sink into which all that is improvident, foolish, reckless, thriftless, or criminal finally descends. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure

Some of the hunters were steady-going and respectable enough; others were idle, thriftless fellows, who could not settle to farming in the colony, and even in the chase were lazy, bad hunters. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood

The existence of unenclosed commons and common fields had been accompanied by very poor farming, very thriftless and shiftless habits. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

He charges him with being deficient in business management and thriftless. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View

Taverns, Inns, Ale-houses, Bowling Allies, and such like thriftless places of resort for tradesmen and artificers, to be under strict surveillance. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Merchant Jack is a thriftless beggar at best, and who could have foreseen wintry weather like this? The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas

This destined chief of a nation in its most perilous hour was the son of a thriftless and wandering settler. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings

If we live influenced by wind and sun and tree, and not by the passions and deeds of the past, we are a thriftless and a hopeless People. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry

They will be a thousand times more happy and useful than in leading listless and thriftless lives. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success

On the whole, a man must not complain of his ‘element,’ of his ‘time,’ or the like; it is thriftless work doing so. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

The thriftless, flighty fellow seemed to persist in misconceiving his situation, undervaluing his artist abilities; forgetting that but for these he would still have been peg-cutting in the Sussex woods. Art in England Notes and Studies

A husband—thriftless, a gambler, inconsiderate—of such a one she had some experience. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

He said that most of the women on any list of the kind he'd seen was fussy and looked lazy and thriftless. Dixie Hart

Mrs. Briggs is thriftless, extravagant, dowdy in her old age, although she had been a beauty in her youth, and knows as little about keeping a house as she does about keeping a horse. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City

But I would ask, What hope have you left, or what portion, even in its best days, did your thriftless loyalty acquire you? The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel

For, in his noble thriftless way, he had initiated her into some of the very secrets of his tinting, and Dulcie was made bold by the feats she had achieved. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

This thriftless slave of passion, this child-man, this much condemned clog to the progress of Southern civilization is called the vagrant Negro. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

Grants of land were made, with the condition that the holder should exercise a paternal rule over the thriftless inhabitants. Lectures on Modern history

Poetry is too much its own reward; and one cannot always write for a barren smile, and a thriftless clap on the back. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century

I do confess thee sweet, but find Thou art sae thriftless o’ thy sweets, Thy favours are the silly wind, That kisses ilka thing it meets. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

"A small stipend secured to my thriftless kinsman, Willie Hamilton, by the advice and with the aid of my son Hector." Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

She harboured a carefully concealed opinion that Abel was "stooping" to marry Judy, for the Hatches were particularly thriftless and had never succeeded in paying a long standing mortgage. The Miller Of Old Church

The thriftless porcupine destroyed a tree for every morning meal. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.

And those who were unfortunate were not always the lazy or thriftless. Hebrew Life and Times

That was what many of the 'poor things' thought, Miss Margery knew to her regret,—that the Charity was merely a reservoir for the wasteful and the thriftless to draw from at will. Honey-Sweet

His father was a thriftless, idle carpenter, scarcely supporting his family, and with but the poorest living. Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Carelessness of danger led to recklessness; recklessness led on to a life that was dissolute and thriftless. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855

Then followed his opponent who, as an industrious and worthy rich man, insisted on ignoring the industrious and worthy poor, but spoke only of the idle and thriftless poor, the paupers and parasites. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service

He was thriftless, idle, dissolute—the small roué of the neighbourhood: she was careful, industrious, virtuous. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852

Stamford has done excellent work for thirty years; he has been neither idle nor thriftless, and he lives from hand to mouth still. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

Gay, genial, thriftless, Gaveston showed in his first acts the quickness and audacity of Southern Gaul. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400

Our labor is for the most part very thriftless. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Indians who have money and do not merely hoard it prefer to lend it out, often at usurious rates of interest, to their needy or thriftless fellow-countrymen. Indian Unrest

Notable people complain, very properly, of thriftless and untidy ones, but they sometimes agree better with them than with rival notabilities. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V

And shall this thriftless hand seize Them too? The Gamester (1753)

I've been a thriftless debtor to your loves, And run out much, in riot, from your stock; But all shall be amended. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05

No reconstruction of society can avail for incompetent, indifferent, thriftless men who cannot work together. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

It will thrive or not according as we are thrifty or thriftless; and our thrift depends upon how we spend our income, not merely on how much we spend of it. Essays on Art

He went out into Emmaus and engaging the unemployed of the thriftless town sent them broadcast into the hills in search of a pagan who was young, yet gray at the temples. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem

It is an island whose people have stood still for a century, indolent, unobserving, thriftless. A Splendid Hazard

And half a stone of flour is half a stone of flour," he muttered to himself, "and whatever it may do with thriftless people, it goes a long way in our house. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales

Meredosia was a forlorn, thriftless place, and he had no money to travel. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics

He was a thriftless fellow at best, and never could more than keep his head out of water. True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings

They are frequent in the thriftless ranks of unskilled labour, and in one section of well-paid workmen—the miners. Outspoken Essays

Married, they bring as a portion thriftless tastes, to satisfy which more than one business man has wrecked his career. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls

The thriftless and drunkards were always 'advance men, but the provident miners hated it and only dealt there on compulsion'. Recent Developments in European Thought

The thievish vagrant plies his thriftless trade Beneath the friendly shelter of the shade; Whilst boldest risk the lawless robber braves: The day for fools was made, and night for knaves. Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters

On the other hand, factory girls tended to become vain and thriftless and the stay-at-home girls were inclined to imitate them. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People

Now, in every class and profession, there are failures,—persons that are good for nothing, indolent, improvident, and thriftless. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times

The well-to-do and well-disposed tenants are coerced by the thriftless and shiftless. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)

Our passenger now became very thoughtful, revolving in his memory the many and various dangers he had passed in the years of his peregrinations, and the thriftless conduct he had pursued all his life long. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes

The miser, the scrub, the extravagant, the thriftless, will necessarily fail. Thrift

In the indolent summer days the negro, careless, thriftless, ignorant, works only at intervals. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

In other letters he wrote even more sharply to his thriftless step-brother. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him

California is a mean, thriftless village; there are no trees shading the cottages, no shrubbery in the yards. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862

But the child of the thief, the costermonger, the racecourse swindler, the thriftless labourer, is now practically emancipated through the action of sentimental persons. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour

No idle nor thriftless man ever became great. Thrift

They were forlorn, So were the cowering inmates whom they held; A thriftless tribe, to shifts and leanness born, Ever complaining: infancy or eld Alike. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.

The negro population idle, thriftless, and greatly subject to diseases of an inflammatory kind. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

Some of them were of the thriftless sort who were forced from the better lands in the East by the inexorable working of economic law. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution

The condition of too many toilers was rendered more hopeless by the thriftless follies born of ignorance. Great Britain and Her Queen

If she be thriftless, putting money into her hands is like pouring water through a sieve. Thrift

I do confess thee sweet--but find Thou art sae thriftless o' thy sweets, Thy favors are the silly wind, That kisses ilka thing it meets. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3

The negro race is here, as everywhere else, an idle and thriftless one; and the purlieus of the town where they are congregated are dilapidated and squalid. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

It will not give them husbands, nor make their thriftless husbands provident, nor their invalid husbands healthy. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses

Furthermore, she couldn't help but think that he was parsimonious, like now as evident by the cheap hotel room, and thriftless like in Rome, all at the wrong times. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

But though the number of thriftless poets may be great, it must not be forgotten that Shakespeare, who stands at the head of the list, was a prudent man. Thrift

For in the matters of the affections he held it thriftless, to the confines of sheer lunacy, to put all your eggs into one basket. Deadham Hard

Idle, thriftless, unambitious, too lazy to walk across the street, but with a horse for every step, sleeping all day in a hammock, gambling and drinking all night. The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California

He had, I found, a different kind of contempt for the lower classes, regarding them as thriftless and unenterprising. The Silent Isle

These fugitives may be thought to be a class of poor, thriftless, illiterate creatures, like the Southern slaves, but it is not so. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

Cowper used to say that he never knew a poet who was not thriftless; and he included himself. Thrift

This pliant auxiliary had, like many thrifty—or more probably thriftless—persons of that time, a double occupation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860

Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance

The Mexican leads a shiftless, thriftless life and seems satisfied merely to exist. Arizona Sketches

Giles had once done that thriftless man a good turn, and now was the moment when Beaucock had chosen to remember it in his own way. The Woodlanders

The navvy workmen, who have made the railways and docks of England, are a hard-working but a rather thriftless set. Thrift

Although this may be largely brought about by their own thriftless and evil conduct, it is a scandal and disgrace which may well make the cheek of the patriot tingle. In Darkest England and the Way Out

It had never dawned upon him that this shiftless, thriftless, worthless, sponging parasite was yet, after and in spite of all, not mercenary in the issue of his thoughts; yet so it was. Tales and Fantasies

It would be interesting to know what kind of an impression he, in turn, had produced on his thriftless host. The Market-Place

He was a thriftless, procrastinating fellow, and when the storm came on about four o'clock had been taking his tea in a warm ingle-nook by his wife's fire. The Case of Richard Meynell

So that every thrifty person may be regarded as a public benefactor, and every thriftless person as a public enemy. Thrift

Was a great drunkard, thriftless, did not go to the trouble of seeking work. In Darkest England and the Way Out

Phrases for Study: rival for one hour, hush of woods, belated, thriftless vagrant, count like misers, satin burs, count all your boasts, idle, golden freighting. The Elson Readers, Book 5

It was a thriftless old door, such as bachelors kept, she murmured. Thoroughbreds

On every plantation might be found some wretched-looking, thriftless, or lazy negroes, of the vagabond order. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

Like thriftless individuals, they live from hand to mouth, and are always poor and miserable. Thrift

Oh, I know that we belong to the thriftless pauper class that's always having children,—more than it can properly care for. Together

They have left the riverside to the thriftless men and the truant boys. The French in the Heart of America

Arriving at Richmond he asked the usual question: "Is not the negro idle, thriftless and thievish?" My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young

There is no more thriftless proceeding than to try and mend the measured pace of Time. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims

The thriftless man has no share in the progress of the world. Thrift

They indulged themselves but sparingly in the luxury of composing verse, which was too thriftless an occupation to be continued long. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives

He and the Spring are scholars' favourites: What scholars are, what thriftless kind of men, Yourself be judge; and judge of him by them. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8

The forest trees, where not too crowded, are of magnificent growth, and the crops are gloriously abundant where the thriftless husbandry has not worn out the soil by an unvarying succession of exhausting crops. Domestic Manners of the Americans

Moineaud began to laugh like the gay thriftless Paris workman that he was. Fruitfulness

It is sold to pay their funeral expenses and debts which they have incurred during their thriftless lifetime. Thrift

The needy and adventurous, the gambling speculator, the dreaming land-jobber, the thriftless tradesman, the merchant with cracked credit—in short, everyone driven to raise money by desperate means and desperate sacrifices hurried to Tom Walker. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1

"If thou wilt, let me build to thee "Service-tabernacles three, "Where, forever in thy presence, "In ecstatic acquiescence, "Far alike from thriftless learning "And ignorance's undiscerning, "I may worship and remain!" Christmas Eve

If he took this course, it is probable that most of them would spend all in thriftless waste and indolence, or in mere physical enjoyments. American Woman's Home

Some knew that the ferryman was lazy and thriftless, and wondered he had not robbed somebody before. Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People

It is always very difficult to teach anything new to adults,—and especially lessons of thrift to men who are thriftless. Thrift

This time he migrated to Illinois, and there again shifted from place to place, gathering no moss, till he died as thriftless and poor as he had lived. Lectures and Essays

Perhaps you have been foolish and thriftless, or else have lost all your money in brawling and strife? The Junior Classics — Volume 4

The Mestizos are a thriftless, careless people, but I care not here to dilate on their shortcomings. The Naturalist in Nicaragua

He knew that his father was discontented with his lot; that he was indolent and thriftless; but he did not think him capable of committing a crime. Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People

They are improvident and thriftless to an extent which proves not less hurtful to their personal happiness and domestic comfort, than it is injurious to the society of which they form so important a part. Thrift

Marry, his worst folly Lies in a thriftless sort of charity, That goes a-gadding sometimes after objects, Which wise men will not see when thrust upon them. The Fortunes of Nigel

Just now, not a living soul looked in—not even those thriftless fellows who lived by chance jobs in the village and met in daily conclave at the store. Seven Icelandic Short Stories

Old Quinto had all his life been recklessly extravagant and thriftless; and his mode of education had not made Bianca less so. A Siren

To continue such methods in the light of our present knowledge and with our growing population is thriftless in the extreme. Community Civics and Rural Life

It is in this way that society mainly consists of two classes—the savers and the wasters, the provident and the improvident, the thrifty and the thriftless, the Haves and the Have-nots. Thrift

These new-born magnates were as thriftless as locusts, and in the midst of their bacchanalian revels Pierce felt very poor, very obscure. The Winds of Chance

But he was an idle, thriftless man, who, at the age of sixty-seven, when the reader will first make his acquaintance, had as yet done no good in the world whatever. The Belton Estate

"Very good doctrine for the idle and thriftless," said Mr. Henry Steel, a gentleman of large wealth, in answer to a friend, who had advanced the truth we have expressed above. All's for the Best

The people on this island are more advanced than their neighbours, and the families here are gradually forming into different ranks, made up of the well-to-do, the struggling, and the quite poor and thriftless. The Aran Islands

To be thriftless, is enough to deprive one of all manly spirit and virtue. Thrift

Clearly she must be another than the thriftless, shiftless creature too common in working-class homes. Thyrza

You didn't think your grandmother was such a thriftless wifie as that! The Scotch Twins

Her idea of life was order and administration, and the village she lived in was thriftless and idle. The Untilled Field

We do not expect that the idle and thriftless will admire them, but it may help them to discover that 'Idleness is the parent of want, while the hand of the diligent maketh rich.' Second Shetland Truck System Report

You always were a thriftless fellow; you must have been wasting your fire. On the Firing Line

"The propertied classes is at the mercy of the thriftless classes," he remarked, with martyr-pride. Such Is Life

It had been only a matter of fifty pounds, which Barnet could well afford to lose, and he bore no ill-will to the thriftless surgeon on account of it. Wessex Tales

XII As the thriftless gold of the babul, so is the gold that we spend On a Derby Sweep, or our neighbor's wife, or the horse that we buy from a friend. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4

But one, I wis, was not at home, Another had paid his gold away, Another called him thriftless loone, And bade him sharply wend his way. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife

Maria's gaze wandered inquiringly in the direction of the house, which had a disordered and thriftless air. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields

Oh, youth's a thriftless squanderer, It's easy come and spent, And heavy is the going now Where once the light foot went. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets

Some day you will bitterly deplore his ineptitude, his thriftless ways, his selfishness, his lack of delicacy, his inability to understand love, and countless troubles arising through him. A Woman of Thirty

He thinks the submerged are lost because they are thriftless and that all would be right if they wouldn't drink. The Vision Splendid

Now, afore God, all is but cast away, That is bestowed upon this thriftless lad. Cromwell

And he's been an ungrateful, thriftless free Negro for nearly thirty years—" "That's just it—for not quite thirty years. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields

They were of a thriftless, unstable class; that vagrant peasantry which had drifted westward to avoid competition with slave labor. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War

But you, that in your age did ne'er view better, Challenged not fortune for your thriftless debter. Sir Thomas More

I do confess thee sweet, but find Thou art so thriftless o' thy sweets, Thy favours are the silly wind That kisses ilka thing it meets. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Love, for her, is above all things, and by its very nature, a vainglorious, brazen-fronted, ostentatious, thriftless charlatan. Father Goriot

So thriftless were the antiquated methods he followed that the lawyer, as he watched him, could barely repress a smile. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields

Who are you, ye thriftless sweepings of Creation, that we should forever be pestered with you? Latter-Day Pamphlets

On the whole, a man must not complain of his "element," of his "time," or the like; it is thriftless work doing so. On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

单词	thriftless
例句	thriftless Nothing can pry them away from that; the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was in Albuquerque and it rained every day but no one collected the water,” one woman said in a scandalised tone, deflecting shame on to thriftless New Mexicans. California city sends its water wasters back to school as drought deepens 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Amidst that great household, where the thriftless habits of the master had descended to the servants, and rendered all reckless and wasteful alike, Darby had thriven and grown almost rich. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z He sleeps, dreams, and wakes cured of his thriftless prejudices and morose philanthropy. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Indeed, the site was formed by nature for prosperity;160 and a bad government and a thriftless people could not prevent the increase of the colony. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z With many noble exceptions, the large landed proprietors of Ireland are heartless, reckless, thriftless men. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z They are thriftless and good-for-nothing, Lowlanders on the steamer assured us. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Instead of these, however, there is a race who seem to live there, less wretched perhaps in actual want 369 of bread, but as evidently thriftless, homeless, and friendless as the other. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z A few minutes' time; a gossip with Mrs. Quale, touching the doings of Daffodil's Delight, and a groan at those thriftless Shucks, in their pigsty of a room. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z The lords of the soil were petty nobles, for the most part soldiers, or the sons of soldiers, proud and ostentatious, thriftless and poor; and the people were their vassals. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z While he would possess a clear recollection of the thriftless farmer who had dropped the money while ploughing through a hole in his pocket. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Yet, in being thriftless and apathetic, they are but obeying a natural law which the modern state socialist is too apt to minimize if not to ignore. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The whole household, for such it seems to be, are poor, very poor; thriftless, unambitious; the men somewhat given to drink to excess; yet the spirit of neighborliness shames criticism. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Wherever a standard is raised, it is quickly surrounded by the idlers, the thriftless, and the improvident, who are willing, at least, to be supported if not munificently recompensed for the task of bearing arms. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z The Creole of the Illinois, contented, light-hearted, and thriftless, by no means fulfilled the injunction to increase and multiply; and the colony languished in spite of the fertile soil. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z He was a thriftless fellow, and, as he told me, had lived principally by the labour of his wife, who washed for European travellers. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z After these events Ka Panshandi’s name became a mockery and a proverb in the land; ballads were sung setting forth her fate as a warning to lazy and thriftless wives. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z Shiftlessness, thriftless uncleanliness marks even the sidewalk about this house. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z I was a close student, of a rather retiring disposition, a stone-mason by trade, careless and indifferent to public honors, and so thriftless that many trifling neighborhood debts had accumulated against me. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z But the weak and thriftless Angeli were able neither to find money nor to maintain discipline. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z He was a dissolute, thriftless fellow, every faculty of whose low mind seemed to have been concentrated into the one mean gift of cunning. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z I know you of old: you would have a rouse with that thriftless babe my husband. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z They did not belong to the race which too frequently make thrift a vice, but were descendants of one the world counts thriftless. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z In a subsequent letter to Williams he spoke of his sister's children as if they were all thriftless. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z He remembered that Mikita had nine ragged children, and that a shower of riches coming thus suddenly could be no blessing, since, no doubt, it would teach him to be thriftless. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z From the thriftless borders of ripening weeds busy flocks of yellowbirds in faded plumage scatter in sudden flight at one's approach like upblown flurries of dun leaves. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z She proved a prolific, thriftless woman and ill housekeeper, but through all the rubs and pinches of his after years he was ever an affectionate husband and father. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z She created for that family a far better home than it had ever known under the shiftless, thriftless management of an undisciplined mother. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z If ever there was a poor, moithering, thriftless thing, it's that mother of yours. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The poor are indolent, dirty, thriftless, and ill-housed; but that does not much matter, as most of their lives are passed in the open air. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z To the same cause that has impoverished and dishonored us in all other respects—the thriftless and degrading institution of slavery. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z The issuing of rations even to the extent of insuring the Indian against starvation has to a great extent removed the incentive to industry, and the Indian, being an Indian, has remained thriftless and indifferent. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The settlers want the lands of the lazy, the thriftless Spaniards. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z The weeds do choke the thriftless fields, No profit now the harvest yields; Honey is sought, but only gall Is found, for still the prices fall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z The Paston Letters, that unique collection of the private correspondence of a typical family of nouveaux riches, thriftless, pushing, unscrupulous, give us the true picture of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z From the present occupants, for the most part needy and thriftless speculators, they met with very different fare from what they had enjoyed under the former wealthy and luxurious proprietors. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies The greedy are rebuked in the adage—"The eyes here are bigger than the stomach," and the thoughtless and thriftless are warned that "One may in seeking a farthing burn up three candles." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The Malay races, to which the Filipinos belong, are, like the negroes, careless, thriftless, and disinclined to continuous exertion. Races and Immigrants in America He is thriftless, and takes no thought for the morrow. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document All these facts make it sufficiently clear that England was irritated rather than crushed by Henry’s irregular taxation and thriftless expenditure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z They are a thriftless lazy lot, content to raise just sufficient for their actual wants and to pay for whisky. Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War These were yet spotted over with stumps of trees, that seemed to leave but little freedom to the course of the ploughshare, and bespoke a thriftless and slovenly tillage. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency But the backward, thriftless, and unintelligent races succeed best when employed in gangs on large estates. Races and Immigrants in America So reckless and ruthless was he, so idle and thriftless, that he required for his precarious and beastly subsistence a domain which would furnish cities with all their comforts and luxuries. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 But even in the wealthier abbeys we find traces of thriftless administration, idleness, self-indulgence and occasionally grave moral scandals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Homeless, shiftless, thriftless, they knew no other names save those which chance or the coarse buffoonery of their friends had endowed them with. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel So much the worse for you, Fagan, and for your handsome daughter here,—not to speak of the poor thriftless devils, like myself, who are the objects of your industrious hours. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience That they were busy years as regards his trade is certain from the success he achieved in it; and that Ramsay was neither a lazy, thriftless, shiftless, or vicious apprentice his after career effectually proves. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series His father, an easy-going thriftless man, had fixed on no definite profession for him, dimly reckoning on the chance that “something was sure to turn up” when the boy was old enough. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley There was a point beyond which it was unwise to provoke the baronage or the commons, and, unlike his flighty and thriftless father, he knew where that point came. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Weeds grew apace, and Cassandra had much ado to hold her cousin Cotton Caswell, easy-going and thriftless, to his task of keeping the small farm in order. The Mountain Girl Moreover, such wastefulness creates a tendency toward thriftless character among the people. Rural Health and Welfare It is sad to think that in later life, poor easy-going, thriftless, careless, Bohemian Robert sank into neglect and consequent poverty. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Learmont was a collected and an urbane character, and did much to temper and turn aside the thriftless ordinances of his superior. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters It was thriftless, arbitrary, and lacking in continuity of policy, yet not tyrannical or cruel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z It had never dawned upon him that this shiftless, thriftless, worthless, sponging parasite was yet, after all and in spite of all, not mercenary in the issue of his thoughts; yet so it was. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI Yet a general opinion prevails among foreigners that the Neapolitans are lazy, thriftless and helpless! The Naples Riviera I have the thriftless conscience of a bird! L'Aiglon He does not intend to spend many years in mining, or if he does, he has become thriftless and improvident. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining The futile and thriftless yet busy and self-important king was one of those sovereigns who irritate their subjects into opposition by injudicious activity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z I am, you see, a thriftless, wandering adventurer––one who has taken things as they came, and never has been serious. The Greater Power Something like a Beggars' Opera may be realised whilst sitting before Don Benigno's huge window on Saturday morning, and watching the thriftless performers as they pass. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba This indiscriminate method of many of the transporting agencies undoubtedly made it possible for a great number of indigent and thriftless negroes simply to change the scene of their inaction. Negro Migration during the War Think of him reckless, thriftless, vain if you like—but merciful, gentle, generous, full of love and pity. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Robert was thriftless, volatile and easy-going, a good knight but a most incompetent sovereign. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z I am not going to encourage the thriftless, or help those who might help themselves, if they would think beforehand.” Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad No other country is so thriftless as ours. England and Germany But you will have little order and regulation about your house so long as you keep that thriftless Biddy in it. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Yet the one who pointed out this strangely-common error was a child belonging to one of the most thriftless of these frontier families. The Cabin on the Prairie The inconsequent, lazy and thriftless life of the criminal demands some sort of stimulant, and this is found readily at hand in alcohol. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science “A bit of Europe on one of our islands and really a lesson to our own thriftless poor.” A Modern Cinderella This is not because the worker is idle or thriftless, but actually because he is too industrious and produces so much that his labour as a producer is at a discount. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals In the meantime her father had died; the thriftless wife had broken his heart by her extravagant habits, and Lizzie and her brothers never received a penny of their mother's little fortune. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 She had often scolded him for being thriftless and reckless, but had been as liberal with her loans and gifts as with her reproaches. The Golden House At Reykjavik, it is true, there is a population of Danish sailors and fishermen, and it would be scarcely fair to form an opinion from the lazy and thriftless habits of the people there. The Land of Thor This excludes the numbers of thriftless and otherwise helpless poor whose work is variable, and who, at the best, can earn only the lowest possible wages as unskilled laborers. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad The Socialist agitators will explain that they are sorry to have made a mistake, whilst the thriftless are squandering the property of the thrifty. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals They were a useless, worthless, thriftless set of people, too lazy and indolent to work, and too proud to be taught. . . . . Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Thus Arab life in Southern Morocco—a thriftless, desultory existence, yet with the charm of continual change and of living with the earth. In the Tail of the Peacock White velvet sounds thriftless; but in Finland, in the summer, it is very hot and dry; in fact, the three or four months of summer are really summer in all its glory. Through Finland in Carts The potato crop was a disastrous failure, and, as the summer waned, the distress of an impoverished and thriftless race grew acute. Lord John Russell "Quiet Joe" made a good income by the practice of his profession; but he was a thriftless fellow who spent his earnings freely, and never paid income tax. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Knowing how particular his father was, he was greatly surprised at the thriftless look of everything. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 A purchaser was soon found for Phelim, and Teddy having doubled his money, felt rich and grand, and cast rather contemptuous looks on his thriftless cousin. Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children Aside from Nash and his associates, and one or two families connected with the mill to the north, the villagers were poor, thriftless, and uninteresting. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range He had long waited for some chance to secure an advantage over his thriftless neighbor, and now that it had come he drove it home with all the solemnity and earnestness that he could command. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road Not a word is left unsaid that can flatter the criminal or encourage the thriftless. American Sketches 1908 But one, I wis, was not at home; Another had paid his gold away; Another called him thriftless loon, And bade him sharply wend his way. The Book of Brave Old Ballads It had transformed Ezekiel Taylor from an honest, industrious, and thriving man, into a mean, lazy, and thriftless drunkard. Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. The Irish levies, in a state of more lax discipline, were collected in merry groups, whiling away the time in thriftless and noisy discourse. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The thriftless were none the better for the prosperity which abounded, rather they were the worse. Tommy A hard man he has been called, but he suits our thriftless laird all the better for that. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not Away, away, thou thriftless loon; Away, away, this may not be; For Christ's curse on my head, he said, If ever I trust thee one pennie. The Book of Brave Old Ballads Then again, successful coöperation is impossible to the thriftless. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers "Verily, a fool's, lady," replied Ralph, "and a thriftless one, I fear me, into the bargain." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The sky is thriftless with colours, The air delirious with songs. The Cycle of Spring The slovenly and thriftless are overrun with them. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses They were intemperate and thriftless, and passed the voyage in disorder. The History of Tasmania, Volume I It is true that the man who merely hoards for the sake of hoarding, developing no new and higher wants, no clearly defined aims, will still be almost as helpless as the most thriftless. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers Want of occupation breeds mischief, idleness being a thriftless carle that leaves the house empty, and the door open to the next comer—an opportunity of which the enemy is sure to avail himself. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 It used to be frequently charged that drink was the chief cause of the poverty of the workers; that they were poor because they were drunken and thriftless. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg This country was settled by the poor and thriftless and now few more than the poor and thriftless remain in it. Greener Than You Think They are, in fact, no more idle, thriftless, passionate, or supercilious, than Northern women would be in similar circumstances. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The thriftless and the extravagant, whether rich or poor, are often mean and self-indulgent, lacking the first quality of the unselfish in lacking self-control. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers Selfish, thriftless, idle Martin, whom the boys called “Old Nebuly,” had not been mad after all, but had been Lord Blandamer. The Nebuly Coat In few but pointed words he reproved thriftless and idle ways, and his respect and approbation were sought and valued. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 The thriftless, who scratched the surface of the ground and then sold out to a newcomer of sterner fiber, passed on to a new frontier. Union and Democracy Tennyson is not one of these thriftless people, and the "In Memoriam," read aright, leads one upward "upon the great world's altar-stairs that slope through darkness up to God". Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles “You’ll have all the thriftless loons in the town bringing you their boots and shoes to mend.” The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn If the fences are broken down, the paths are unkept, the flower-beds full of weeds, we may be pretty sure the inhabitants are idle, thriftless, perhaps intemperate. Life and Conduct The Muhammadan Bhīls are with few exceptions a miserable lot, idle and thriftless, and steeped in the deadly vice of opium-eating. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II The place was the last refuge of the destitute; the social sink into which all that is improvident, foolish, reckless, thriftless, or criminal finally descends. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure Some of the hunters were steady-going and respectable enough; others were idle, thriftless fellows, who could not settle to farming in the colony, and even in the chase were lazy, bad hunters. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood The existence of unenclosed commons and common fields had been accompanied by very poor farming, very thriftless and shiftless habits. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England He charges him with being deficient in business management and thriftless. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Taverns, Inns, Ale-houses, Bowling Allies, and such like thriftless places of resort for tradesmen and artificers, to be under strict surveillance. Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Merchant Jack is a thriftless beggar at best, and who could have foreseen wintry weather like this? The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas This destined chief of a nation in its most perilous hour was the son of a thriftless and wandering settler. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings If we live influenced by wind and sun and tree, and not by the passions and deeds of the past, we are a thriftless and a hopeless People. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry They will be a thousand times more happy and useful than in leading listless and thriftless lives. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success On the whole, a man must not complain of his ‘element,’ of his ‘time,’ or the like; it is thriftless work doing so. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History The thriftless, flighty fellow seemed to persist in misconceiving his situation, undervaluing his artist abilities; forgetting that but for these he would still have been peg-cutting in the Sussex woods. Art in England Notes and Studies A husband—thriftless, a gambler, inconsiderate—of such a one she had some experience. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) He said that most of the women on any list of the kind he'd seen was fussy and looked lazy and thriftless. Dixie Hart Mrs. Briggs is thriftless, extravagant, dowdy in her old age, although she had been a beauty in her youth, and knows as little about keeping a house as she does about keeping a horse. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City But I would ask, What hope have you left, or what portion, even in its best days, did your thriftless loyalty acquire you? The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel For, in his noble thriftless way, he had initiated her into some of the very secrets of his tinting, and Dulcie was made bold by the feats she had achieved. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes This thriftless slave of passion, this child-man, this much condemned clog to the progress of Southern civilization is called the vagrant Negro. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Grants of land were made, with the condition that the holder should exercise a paternal rule over the thriftless inhabitants. Lectures on Modern history Poetry is too much its own reward; and one cannot always write for a barren smile, and a thriftless clap on the back. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century I do confess thee sweet, but find Thou art sae thriftless o’ thy sweets, Thy favours are the silly wind, That kisses ilka thing it meets. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham "A small stipend secured to my thriftless kinsman, Willie Hamilton, by the advice and with the aid of my son Hector." Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes She harboured a carefully concealed opinion that Abel was "stooping" to marry Judy, for the Hatches were particularly thriftless and had never succeeded in paying a long standing mortgage. The Miller Of Old Church The thriftless porcupine destroyed a tree for every morning meal. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. And those who were unfortunate were not always the lazy or thriftless. Hebrew Life and Times That was what many of the 'poor things' thought, Miss Margery knew to her regret,—that the Charity was merely a reservoir for the wasteful and the thriftless to draw from at will. Honey-Sweet His father was a thriftless, idle carpenter, scarcely supporting his family, and with but the poorest living. Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days Carelessness of danger led to recklessness; recklessness led on to a life that was dissolute and thriftless. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 Then followed his opponent who, as an industrious and worthy rich man, insisted on ignoring the industrious and worthy poor, but spoke only of the idle and thriftless poor, the paupers and parasites. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service He was thriftless, idle, dissolute—the small roué of the neighbourhood: she was careful, industrious, virtuous. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 Stamford has done excellent work for thirty years; he has been neither idle nor thriftless, and he lives from hand to mouth still. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Gay, genial, thriftless, Gaveston showed in his first acts the quickness and audacity of Southern Gaul. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 Our labor is for the most part very thriftless. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Indians who have money and do not merely hoard it prefer to lend it out, often at usurious rates of interest, to their needy or thriftless fellow-countrymen. Indian Unrest Notable people complain, very properly, of thriftless and untidy ones, but they sometimes agree better with them than with rival notabilities. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V And shall this thriftless hand seize Them too? The Gamester (1753) I've been a thriftless debtor to your loves, And run out much, in riot, from your stock; But all shall be amended. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 No reconstruction of society can avail for incompetent, indifferent, thriftless men who cannot work together. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South It will thrive or not according as we are thrifty or thriftless; and our thrift depends upon how we spend our income, not merely on how much we spend of it. Essays on Art He went out into Emmaus and engaging the unemployed of the thriftless town sent them broadcast into the hills in search of a pagan who was young, yet gray at the temples. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem It is an island whose people have stood still for a century, indolent, unobserving, thriftless. A Splendid Hazard And half a stone of flour is half a stone of flour," he muttered to himself, "and whatever it may do with thriftless people, it goes a long way in our house. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales Meredosia was a forlorn, thriftless place, and he had no money to travel. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics He was a thriftless fellow at best, and never could more than keep his head out of water. True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings They are frequent in the thriftless ranks of unskilled labour, and in one section of well-paid workmen—the miners. Outspoken Essays Married, they bring as a portion thriftless tastes, to satisfy which more than one business man has wrecked his career. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls The thriftless and drunkards were always 'advance men, but the provident miners hated it and only dealt there on compulsion'. Recent Developments in European Thought The thievish vagrant plies his thriftless trade Beneath the friendly shelter of the shade; Whilst boldest risk the lawless robber braves: The day for fools was made, and night for knaves. Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters On the other hand, factory girls tended to become vain and thriftless and the stay-at-home girls were inclined to imitate them. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Now, in every class and profession, there are failures,—persons that are good for nothing, indolent, improvident, and thriftless. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times The well-to-do and well-disposed tenants are coerced by the thriftless and shiftless. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) Our passenger now became very thoughtful, revolving in his memory the many and various dangers he had passed in the years of his peregrinations, and the thriftless conduct he had pursued all his life long. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes The miser, the scrub, the extravagant, the thriftless, will necessarily fail. Thrift In the indolent summer days the negro, careless, thriftless, ignorant, works only at intervals. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 In other letters he wrote even more sharply to his thriftless step-brother. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him California is a mean, thriftless village; there are no trees shading the cottages, no shrubbery in the yards. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 But the child of the thief, the costermonger, the racecourse swindler, the thriftless labourer, is now practically emancipated through the action of sentimental persons. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour No idle nor thriftless man ever became great. Thrift They were forlorn, So were the cowering inmates whom they held; A thriftless tribe, to shifts and leanness born, Ever complaining: infancy or eld Alike. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. The negro population idle, thriftless, and greatly subject to diseases of an inflammatory kind. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Some of them were of the thriftless sort who were forced from the better lands in the East by the inexorable working of economic law. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution The condition of too many toilers was rendered more hopeless by the thriftless follies born of ignorance. Great Britain and Her Queen If she be thriftless, putting money into her hands is like pouring water through a sieve. Thrift I do confess thee sweet--but find Thou art sae thriftless o' thy sweets, Thy favors are the silly wind, That kisses ilka thing it meets. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 The negro race is here, as everywhere else, an idle and thriftless one; and the purlieus of the town where they are congregated are dilapidated and squalid. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter It will not give them husbands, nor make their thriftless husbands provident, nor their invalid husbands healthy. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses Furthermore, she couldn't help but think that he was parsimonious, like now as evident by the cheap hotel room, and thriftless like in Rome, all at the wrong times. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America But though the number of thriftless poets may be great, it must not be forgotten that Shakespeare, who stands at the head of the list, was a prudent man. Thrift For in the matters of the affections he held it thriftless, to the confines of sheer lunacy, to put all your eggs into one basket. Deadham Hard Idle, thriftless, unambitious, too lazy to walk across the street, but with a horse for every step, sleeping all day in a hammock, gambling and drinking all night. The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California He had, I found, a different kind of contempt for the lower classes, regarding them as thriftless and unenterprising. The Silent Isle These fugitives may be thought to be a class of poor, thriftless, illiterate creatures, like the Southern slaves, but it is not so. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Cowper used to say that he never knew a poet who was not thriftless; and he included himself. Thrift This pliant auxiliary had, like many thrifty—or more probably thriftless—persons of that time, a double occupation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance The Mexican leads a shiftless, thriftless life and seems satisfied merely to exist. Arizona Sketches Giles had once done that thriftless man a good turn, and now was the moment when Beaucock had chosen to remember it in his own way. The Woodlanders The navvy workmen, who have made the railways and docks of England, are a hard-working but a rather thriftless set. Thrift Although this may be largely brought about by their own thriftless and evil conduct, it is a scandal and disgrace which may well make the cheek of the patriot tingle. In Darkest England and the Way Out It had never dawned upon him that this shiftless, thriftless, worthless, sponging parasite was yet, after and in spite of all, not mercenary in the issue of his thoughts; yet so it was. Tales and Fantasies It would be interesting to know what kind of an impression he, in turn, had produced on his thriftless host. The Market-Place He was a thriftless, procrastinating fellow, and when the storm came on about four o'clock had been taking his tea in a warm ingle-nook by his wife's fire. The Case of Richard Meynell So that every thrifty person may be regarded as a public benefactor, and every thriftless person as a public enemy. Thrift Was a great drunkard, thriftless, did not go to the trouble of seeking work. In Darkest England and the Way Out Phrases for Study: rival for one hour, hush of woods, belated, thriftless vagrant, count like misers, satin burs, count all your boasts, idle, golden freighting. The Elson Readers, Book 5 It was a thriftless old door, such as bachelors kept, she murmured. Thoroughbreds On every plantation might be found some wretched-looking, thriftless, or lazy negroes, of the vagabond order. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Like thriftless individuals, they live from hand to mouth, and are always poor and miserable. Thrift Oh, I know that we belong to the thriftless pauper class that's always having children,—more than it can properly care for. Together They have left the riverside to the thriftless men and the truant boys. The French in the Heart of America Arriving at Richmond he asked the usual question: "Is not the negro idle, thriftless and thievish?" My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young There is no more thriftless proceeding than to try and mend the measured pace of Time. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims The thriftless man has no share in the progress of the world. Thrift They indulged themselves but sparingly in the luxury of composing verse, which was too thriftless an occupation to be continued long. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives He and the Spring are scholars' favourites: What scholars are, what thriftless kind of men, Yourself be judge; and judge of him by them. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 The forest trees, where not too crowded, are of magnificent growth, and the crops are gloriously abundant where the thriftless husbandry has not worn out the soil by an unvarying succession of exhausting crops. Domestic Manners of the Americans Moineaud began to laugh like the gay thriftless Paris workman that he was. Fruitfulness It is sold to pay their funeral expenses and debts which they have incurred during their thriftless lifetime. Thrift The needy and adventurous, the gambling speculator, the dreaming land-jobber, the thriftless tradesman, the merchant with cracked credit—in short, everyone driven to raise money by desperate means and desperate sacrifices hurried to Tom Walker. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 "If thou wilt, let me build to thee "Service-tabernacles three, "Where, forever in thy presence, "In ecstatic acquiescence, "Far alike from thriftless learning "And ignorance's undiscerning, "I may worship and remain!" Christmas Eve If he took this course, it is probable that most of them would spend all in thriftless waste and indolence, or in mere physical enjoyments. American Woman's Home Some knew that the ferryman was lazy and thriftless, and wondered he had not robbed somebody before. Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People It is always very difficult to teach anything new to adults,—and especially lessons of thrift to men who are thriftless. Thrift This time he migrated to Illinois, and there again shifted from place to place, gathering no moss, till he died as thriftless and poor as he had lived. Lectures and Essays Perhaps you have been foolish and thriftless, or else have lost all your money in brawling and strife? The Junior Classics — Volume 4 The Mestizos are a thriftless, careless people, but I care not here to dilate on their shortcomings. The Naturalist in Nicaragua He knew that his father was discontented with his lot; that he was indolent and thriftless; but he did not think him capable of committing a crime. Haste and Waste; Or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain. a Story for Young People They are improvident and thriftless to an extent which proves not less hurtful to their personal happiness and domestic comfort, than it is injurious to the society of which they form so important a part. Thrift Marry, his worst folly Lies in a thriftless sort of charity, That goes a-gadding sometimes after objects, Which wise men will not see when thrust upon them. The Fortunes of Nigel Just now, not a living soul looked in—not even those thriftless fellows who lived by chance jobs in the village and met in daily conclave at the store. Seven Icelandic Short Stories Old Quinto had all his life been recklessly extravagant and thriftless; and his mode of education had not made Bianca less so. A Siren To continue such methods in the light of our present knowledge and with our growing population is thriftless in the extreme. Community Civics and Rural Life It is in this way that society mainly consists of two classes—the savers and the wasters, the provident and the improvident, the thrifty and the thriftless, the Haves and the Have-nots. Thrift These new-born magnates were as thriftless as locusts, and in the midst of their bacchanalian revels Pierce felt very poor, very obscure. The Winds of Chance But he was an idle, thriftless man, who, at the age of sixty-seven, when the reader will first make his acquaintance, had as yet done no good in the world whatever. The Belton Estate "Very good doctrine for the idle and thriftless," said Mr. Henry Steel, a gentleman of large wealth, in answer to a friend, who had advanced the truth we have expressed above. All's for the Best The people on this island are more advanced than their neighbours, and the families here are gradually forming into different ranks, made up of the well-to-do, the struggling, and the quite poor and thriftless. The Aran Islands To be thriftless, is enough to deprive one of all manly spirit and virtue. Thrift Clearly she must be another than the thriftless, shiftless creature too common in working-class homes. Thyrza You didn't think your grandmother was such a thriftless wifie as that! The Scotch Twins Her idea of life was order and administration, and the village she lived in was thriftless and idle. The Untilled Field We do not expect that the idle and thriftless will admire them, but it may help them to discover that 'Idleness is the parent of want, while the hand of the diligent maketh rich.' Second Shetland Truck System Report You always were a thriftless fellow; you must have been wasting your fire. On the Firing Line "The propertied classes is at the mercy of the thriftless classes," he remarked, with martyr-pride. Such Is Life It had been only a matter of fifty pounds, which Barnet could well afford to lose, and he bore no ill-will to the thriftless surgeon on account of it. Wessex Tales XII As the thriftless gold of the babul, so is the gold that we spend On a Derby Sweep, or our neighbor's wife, or the horse that we buy from a friend. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 But one, I wis, was not at home, Another had paid his gold away, Another called him thriftless loone, And bade him sharply wend his way. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Maria's gaze wandered inquiringly in the direction of the house, which had a disordered and thriftless air. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Oh, youth's a thriftless squanderer, It's easy come and spent, And heavy is the going now Where once the light foot went. Anthology of Massachusetts Poets Some day you will bitterly deplore his ineptitude, his thriftless ways, his selfishness, his lack of delicacy, his inability to understand love, and countless troubles arising through him. A Woman of Thirty He thinks the submerged are lost because they are thriftless and that all would be right if they wouldn't drink. The Vision Splendid Now, afore God, all is but cast away, That is bestowed upon this thriftless lad. Cromwell And he's been an ungrateful, thriftless free Negro for nearly thirty years—" "That's just it—for not quite thirty years. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields They were of a thriftless, unstable class; that vagrant peasantry which had drifted westward to avoid competition with slave labor. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War But you, that in your age did ne'er view better, Challenged not fortune for your thriftless debter. Sir Thomas More I do confess thee sweet, but find Thou art so thriftless o' thy sweets, Thy favours are the silly wind That kisses ilka thing it meets. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Love, for her, is above all things, and by its very nature, a vainglorious, brazen-fronted, ostentatious, thriftless charlatan. Father Goriot So thriftless were the antiquated methods he followed that the lawyer, as he watched him, could barely repress a smile. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Who are you, ye thriftless sweepings of Creation, that we should forever be pestered with you? Latter-Day Pamphlets On the whole, a man must not complain of his "element," of his "time," or the like; it is thriftless work doing so. On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
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