| 单词 | niggard |
| 例句 | Flowing around you, not brooding and nursing every niggard stone. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rats and ruins. It is a niggard’s gift that costs the giver nothing. Your own man Yarwyck says it will be half a year before the castle can be made fit for habitation.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Little niggard!” said he, “refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z "And what is that, Ella?" inquired Woodville; "if it be possible to grant, it shall not be refused; for I have so little to give, that I must be no niggard of what I have." Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z He was not a niggard, however, in his expenditure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The prospect of ruin, of losing her all and becoming dependent on the Squire's niggard bounty, had closed her mind to other terrors. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z It is obvious from the meagre report that Pitt was now as copious in his praise of the King as he had formerly been niggard. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z I was not disposed to be niggard of promises; but in vain. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z He was not a niggard, but he had ambitions and he saw that his money must be made productive if those ambitions were to be gratified. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z At the next table there sat, meanly drinking his pint pot, Josse Grypstuiver, the miserly dean of the fishmongers, a scurvy fellow, niggard, living on red herrings, loving money more than his soul’s salvation. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z "Robert," said the lady, "you will find me no niggard, so you do this task." Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z He that hath enough and over and is niggard with his pelf Will be hated of his people and left free to praise himself. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z One short, wan streak, As if in the branches of yon distant oak, Alone brings niggard tidings. bertrand. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z My husband is a poor and niggard churl To him, whoe'er he be, that loves the girl. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z And think you she would be niggard with Handsome Jack? Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures 2011-10-20T02:00:22.743Z Those were stirring times in the navy, I can tell you, my friends! and our captain was no niggard of shot and shell; indeed a more dashing officer never trod his majesty’s quarter-deck! The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z Here is the freshest and the best drink I have; I am no niggard. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z Don't be niggards in this; it cheers the Doctor's heart, and it will lighten yours. Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People 2011-10-07T02:00:21.697Z Well, Sandie, at ten o’clock, brought round Laird Fletcher’s horse, and before mounting, the Laird, who, with all his wealth, was a wee bit of a niggard, gave him twopence. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z They began to look the most snivelling of sins as I watched, with spacious leisure, the near procession of gigantic trees, that superb wild which did not arise from such niggard and flinty maxims. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Sir Wentworth had long passed through the spendthrift stage, and was very close with respect to money-matters; a harsh and griping landlord, and it is probable enough a niggard parent. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z London was startled; and when London is startled by its press it is no niggard. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z We chase the fleeing beauty all our lives long; "Nor is there near so brisk a fire In fruition, as desire; The niggard sense, too poor for bliss, Pays us but dully with what is." Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z This he dispensed with no niggard hand, and so the peace was kept; but it was late in the day when she was again fairly under way for home. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z It's affected us in most every way, but Dave is no niggard, and the inducement has been made more than proportionate, so there's no kick coming on that head. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z I am myself, indeed, daily in Maussenbach, and pleading; but the niggard accepts no disinterested arguments; and for all else R�per has feeling and reason. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z I am here upon a friendly errand, my good lord, and you are such a niggard that you refuse me my laugh. Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z But he was no niggard of generous praise and sympathy, and no man spoke with more fervent eulogy and eloquent approval of other men. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z And if that won't satisfy you, you can ask for more, for we are no niggards and misers up here. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z I presume that Wheat and other crops would be devastated by insects if there were no slovenly, niggard, exhausting tillage. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z The greatest prodigal might be made something still worse, the greatest niggard, if one should give him so much as to make him account it much and worth increasing; and so vice vers�. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z "Do as I bid you now, Keatie, and lippen the rest to me.—Ah, she is a niggard, Mr Dobson, and has muckle need of a little schooling to open her heart." The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z The aged and the infirm, who can still perform a light task, have just received their daily dole from the royal storehouse at the niggard hand of the pampered steward. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z "I wish you were not such a niggard of it." Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z A bowlful or a dishful as you liked, this lukewarm beverage was not given out with a niggard hand. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z There he sits, a strange exotic, transplanted from the delectable alcoves of the old manorial mansion, to take root in this niggard soil. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z I call him tall, for his stature exceeded six feet; and I say thin, for nature had been abundantly liberal with bones and muscle, but wofully niggard in clothing them with flesh. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Nature has scattered the necessaries of existence with a niggard hand over these desert plains, and the supply of water is indeed scanty. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Dispense thy meat freely; have no niggard for thy familiar. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Sweet summer had scattered her treasures with no niggard hand; and Lady Darrell had lived to see the earth rejoice once more. Love Works Wonders A Novel Whatever to his treasure the niggard may add, Yet regard for the joyous will ever be had, For gladness lends ever its charms to the glad, So, brethren, sing: Ergo bibamus! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 He searched each case too strictly, not content To find out want, he would explore the cause, And thus he measured out his niggard alms. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Nature has dispensed the first necessary of life with a most niggard hand, those pools which have not a constant supply of running water soon become adulterated by various decompositions of organic and inorganic matter. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z "One's friends always want one to be a niggard!" The Great Miss Driver Moreover, in rhymes, thought Guy, Pauline was no niggard; and with a flicker of sardonic humor he recalled how many Swinburne had found for Faustine. Plashers Mead A Novel Not short Heaven’s bounty, boundless our expence; No niggard, Nature; men are prodigals. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes He came poor, and that niggard land never made him rich. The Spanish Pioneers My brethren, I must do them the justice to say, were no niggards of information. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience Nature has been niggard of rain but lavish in soil and sun. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Even the humblest orders of plants have the element of beauty bestowed on them with no niggard hand. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series It is wonderful how much imagination contributes in such cases, supplying graces and attractions where nature has been a niggard, and giving to the veriest commonplace character traits of distinctive charm. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The life of the colonists was a daily battle with niggard Nature—for New Mexico was never fertile—and with deadliest danger. The Spanish Pioneers But Maw Pritchett and her son and daughter seemed to be used to the old man’s way, and they helped each other and the Bray girls with no niggard hand. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks He is a niggard, that little fellow, and gives but little; and those to whom he gives have not enough wherewith to enjoy themselves. The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart He had spent several hundred in furnishing the house, and since then most of his two hundred a year had gone in expenses, for he was no niggard either with himself or those he loved. Captain Macedoine's Daughter To act the niggard, and force people to lie in the face of God and man, is certainly none. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels Moreover, the dazzling promises of Zurdoki, who was no niggard with his money, had also great weight with her. Pretty Michal Colman, niggard, would risk nothing in the production of the piece, neither in new costumes nor theatrical fittings. Oliver Goldsmith When one gives at all, it should be with a lavish hand, and not stingily as is that niggard's wont. The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart He took me into a vaulted stone chamber, and poured with a niggard hand a glass of mezzo-vino. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. And the niggards that dare not give are glutted, And the feeble that dare not fail are strong, So while the City of Toil is gutted, I sit in the saddle and sing my song. Poems “Be niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst avarice is that of sense.” l. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature I delight to find her at fault; and were I always resident with her, I am aware she would be no niggard in thus ministering to my enjoyment. Shirley Humphreys once feeling, that, in spite of all his struggles, he was not doing much, exclaimed,— "Why, niggard language, dost thou balk my soul?" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 And the railroad was no niggard to its servants. The Shepherd of the North They were small enough; and they were given with a niggard hand. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 O ye niggard Powers, why was such a wond’rous Piece of Art left imperfect?’ The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V The niggard in pound and pence is a usurer in happiness; a miser driving a hard bargain with pleasure. The Strollers Ye niggard Gods! you make our Lives too long: You fill ’em with Diseases, Wants, and Woes, And only dash ’em with a little Love; Sprinkled by Fits, and with a sparing Hand. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) Why, then, should you be such a niggard of a little time, when you have a whole eternity before you?' Benjamin Franklin Jinks was no niggard, and Tresler was always welcome to all he needed. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana It was a hard and savage fight in those days, and a niggard pay. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges E'en as beneath the doubtful moon, when niggard light doth fall270 Upon some way amid the woods, when God hath hidden heaven, And black night from the things of earth the colours dear hath driven. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse And this illusion for some time repairs The want of real joys, which niggard Nature Never has granted to unhappy man. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness It shall hardly auaile you to make any fence for your Orchard, if you be a niggard of your fruit. A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England In such fashions Zeyd showed himself a bountiful great man, who indeed was the greatest niggard. All About Coffee His liberality in the matter of heroines compensates me not at all for his niggard accounts of the war. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 Nature—it seems—when she meant us for earth Spent so much of her treasure in the birth As ever after niggards her, and she, Thus stor'd within, beggars us outwardly. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Nature has made them hardy and intelligent, for their life is a perpetual struggle to extract a scanty subsistence from the niggard and rocky soil. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 All his pleasures were social; and while health and fortune smiled upon him, he was no niggard either of his time or talents to those who needed them. The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor Moreover, she was grateful to him for having helped her so well in her plot against the niggards. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel "All right, Sir," said Jacques, and he left the room muttering: "He's growing from bad to worse; he is a stingy old niggard." The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story He was no niggard of encouragement and praise when he saw honest industry struggling for a footing. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson He is impertinent, grossly ignorant, and a niggard. Anthony Lyveden Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who owns it is not a niggard of its use. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 The festal Hour disdains to own The mournful note, the niggard wreath. Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace Nature here is at the height of her loveliness and spreads her riches with no niggard hand. The Birthright He was alive—that niggard concession was made to Allan Gerard, whose rich fullness of vigor and dominant presence last night had seemed the one firm reality in a world of pleasant vagueness. From the Car Behind There are those who call Mazarin a niggard," said he, still smiling, "but there will be at least one to hold him a good paymaster. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France He lavished his gold with no niggard hand, and gold is a wondrous talisman to remove obstacles and facilitate designs. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Triumph o'er the wither'd flow'r, The leafless shrub, the ruin'd bower; But our cottage come not near, Other Springs inhabit here, Other sunshine decks our board Than they niggard skies afford. Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc From his boyhood he had been a passionate lover of the open, and Mother Nature had shared her secrets with him in no niggard fashion. The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys I am not such a niggard of life, that I grudge to risk it in such company, and in such a cause.' The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. Where there is something new, and much to be admired, it would be inexcusable to be niggard of our labour, even were the labour painful, which in this instance it is not. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Having once made the concession, it must be allowed that they showed no niggard spirit in sanctioning the expedition and the proposals of the military authorities. The Life of Gordon, Volume II Thus originated a set familiar to those of us nowadays who covet and who buy the rare old bits that the niggard hand of the past accords to the seeker after the ancient. The Tapestry Book The world, which makes so many niggards, had taught him to be freer of heart. The Bertrams "Woman's love rewards the worthless—kings of knaves exalters be; Wealth attends the selfish niggard, and the cloud rains on the sea." Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. I like to see a niggard man, One of the great Macdonald clan; When others are in quest of gain This man the needy will sustain. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. I thought my friends were rich men, and I was never a niggard. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Brake forth then great laughter and whooping, for the said Erling was a manifest niggard, a dastard who sweated in his bed when the mouse squeaked in the wall a nighttime. The Sundering Flood To the niggard lands were we driven; 'twixt desert and foe are we penned. Songs of a Sourdough And in such a crisis, let no counsel be taken of narrow, niggard sentiment. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 "I need your faith in me that I am not by choice a niggard." The Reckoning Bounty will not stay where niggards bear the sway. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote A niggard in respect to praise, a skeptic in respect to promise, he is well known. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Is he to turn niggard and dole out to her a few crumbs of regard and tenderness? to let her take from the child what the husband ought to give? Floyd Grandon's Honor The reluctant doling out of insufficient aid to the poor is niggardliness.—The niggard is thinking all the time of himself, and how he hates to part with what belongs to him. Practical Ethics I could have given what she asked, but my own heart was a niggard. The King's Mirror Harvey was no niggard so far as caring for the comfort of his small assistant was concerned. Messenger No. 48 “Come, man, rummage out your stores, you used not to be niggard of your liquor.” John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard. Floyd Grandon's Honor Poor Malibran! she had had but a niggard portion of happiness in this world, although she procured so much pleasure to others. Olla Podrida Pixie was no niggard in sympathy, but for the moment she had other views. The Love Affairs of Pixie Under the niggard care of miserly old Jabez Potter, the miller, her great uncle, tempered by the loving kindness of Aunt Alvirah Boggs, the miller’s housekeeper, Ruth’s prospects had been poor indeed. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point Observing the absence of the pinched, poverty-stricken-looking old gentleman, some good-natured passenger sent him out a bumper of brandy and water, which the old niggard eagerly accepted. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 S. Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement? The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] What think you, reader, is the service, For which I use this niggard rat? Classic French Course in English We abused him yesterday as a niggard; let us have the grace to-day to say we were mistaken.” The Nebuly Coat We meet with this admission in the writings of almost every experienced naturalist; or, as Milne Edwards has well expressed it, Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Apparently he had a niggard ear even for her witcheries, and little appetite save for the wine flask. In Kings' Byways It seemed to them indicative of a niggard and ruinous parsimony. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Life is niggard of such moments, yet can our lives be summed up in them. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Mrs. Fullerton, seeing that Hadria was more patient, quickly took advantage of the favourable moment, with a rapid instinct that had often done her good service in the management of a niggard destiny. The Daughters of Danaus You are to suppose a region far removed even from such a niggard commerce of life as there was then in the Scottish Highlands. The Black Colonel There, tumbling in their seal-skin boat, Fearless, the hungry fishers float, And from the teeming seas supply The food their niggard plains deny. Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom, A difficult journey to a splendid tomb. John Forster That shore reveals no print of human foot, Nor e'en the pawing of the wilder Brute; And niggard vegetation will not smile, All sunless on that solitary Isle. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 The one, splendid, exquisite, varied, generous, rich beyond description; the other, poor, thin, dull, monotonous, niggard, distressful—is that necessary?” The Daughters of Danaus The times called upon every patriot to spend all he had of vigor, intellect, money, life itself, for the common cause, and Franklin was no niggard in the stress. Benjamin Franklin The family did their best, but a niggard soil and bad seasons were too much for them. Robert Burns But, providentially,— “The teeming sea supplies The food the niggard soil denies.” By Canoe and Dog-Train No niggard of thy liquor be, Let it go round thy table; People may freely drink, but not So long as they are able. In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World We who enjoy the results may feel how much he owed to the very sternness of his education and the niggard hand with which his imaginative sustenance was dealt out to him. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) "The gardener is a niggard with his flowers," she said with a coaxing smile. Simon Dale There was to be no performance on the morrow; the niggard patronage of the town had been exhausted. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Brave boy, he did his duty; and I, I, Miriam, thy uncle, at whom they wink behind his back and call him niggard, was I wanting in that hour of trial? Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity No contrast is discoverable between a place of torments and a realm of joy; at the worst but a negative castigation awaited the liar, the coward, or the niggard. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America By the deathless fallacy which credits or blames the ruling powers for everything, natural or supernatural, Shelby's party reaped abundantly where it had sown with niggard hand. The Henchman He has little to say to the children of compromise, whose emasculated lives attain the semblance of virtue by the cautious exercise of niggard passions. The Empire of Love Is nature then a niggard of her bliss? The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 You will not send me your poetic rambles, but, you see I am no niggard of mine. 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 Thou leper of fear—thou niggard of cheer— Where glory is dear, shall thy welcome be found? The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Then Thord offered Hoskuld money for his help, and said he would not look at the matter with a niggard's eye. Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic You'd hardly think from the slow and clumsy spinning of this tale that I could crowd the narrative of all that I had seen and heard into a niggard three-score words or less. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Smith in his poverty had been no niggard, and of his wealth he was lavish. The Mormon Prophet When companions scoffed at the young merchant as a niggard he subdued his sensitiveness and inured himself to rigid economy. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service You are a sweet to write so often, and I am a wretched niggard that deserves not one half of what you give. The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a niggard. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse The cabin clearing, or rather the thinned-out grove which stood in lieu thereof, was but a niggard acre hemmed in on every side, save that toward the river, by the virgin forest. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.—J. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age Sent Kabinga a cloth, and a message, but he is evidently a niggard, like Matipa: we must take him as we find him, there is no use in growling. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi "The character," however, he succeeded in procuring, and written in no niggard terms. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. If niggard Nature should withhold the green And sugary Pea, welcome the humble Bean. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Hate sought no flimsy pretexts, but came forth boldly; love entered the lists neither with caution nor with mental reservation; and favor, though inconsiderate as ever, was not niggard with her largess. The Grey Cloak Horace was no niggard in his hospitality, but preferred the ease and comfort of his own sanctum to the gay rattle that was continually going on in his pretty little wife's drawing room or verandahs. Vellenaux A Novel Time had made him sib to its spirit, close to its niggard heart. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Who could be enriched of thee By such hoard of poverty As thy niggard hand pretends To dole me— thy worst of friends? Afterwhiles Hugh was disagreeable, nay, hateful, by reason of the power which he possessed; whereas Archie was not hateful at all, and was disagreeable simply because nature had been a niggard to him. The Claverings "Ah, Monsieur de Saumaise," said the governor, "you must not tell jests at the expense of their Majesties; Mazarin I do not mind, for he is certainly niggard with funds and with men." The Grey Cloak Few, I know, for he is a niggard, and if he spends, he spends the Duke’s pay.” Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself. The Hawk of Egypt He understood that the admiral's guests always expected these flights, and he was in nowise niggard. A Splendid Hazard A good round dozen started, filling up the Plough and Harrow bar, as Mrs. Bascroft dealt out her treat with no niggard hand. Verner's Pride Wilford was no niggard with his money, and when Katy had asked for more, it had been given unsparingly, even though he knew the purpose to which it was to be applied. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering I much fear, That soul, which could deny the body here To taste of love, would be a niggard there. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 In life the most arrant coward will sometimes fight; the bravest man at times lacks nerve; the generous man may sometimes show the spirit of the niggard. The Colossus A Novel And is all this because nature is niggard or savage? or mankind ungrateful? Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals "Dispense thy meat freely, have no niggard for thy familiar." The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland His critics might have paused to consider why Jean-Jacques, certainly not niggard of self-praise in the Dialogues, should have claimed no more for himself than this. Aspects of Literature Nay, I entreat thee by His name, whose fire Lightens down Oeta’s topmost glen, be not A niggard of the truth. The Seven Plays in English Verse Mr. Hume, a parsimonious economist, of niggard principle and grovelling sentiment, undertook the office of coercing the Irish. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 Do not refuse to share your meat; do not have a niggard for your friend; do not force yourself on a great man or give him occasion to speak against you. Gods and Fighting Men Public opinion has unquestionably ranked it as inferior, but has not however been niggard in its praise. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Its appropriation was impossibly meager, even with the niggard's increase just wrung from the legislature. Queed Service was held in the church, but the Hospital became a perfectly secular charity, supporting a few almspeople with niggard hand, and a Master in great splendour. As We Are and As We May Be The most brilliant, unscrupulous and daring historian of France degraded the niggard praise he accorded them by making it the medium of a false and contemptible sneer. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 O Crispus Sallustius, thou foe to bullion, unless it derives splendor from a moderate enjoyment, there is no luster in money concealed in the niggard earth. The Works of Horace He is a niggard all the week, except on market-days, where, if his corn sell well, he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs "These six—the peevish, the niggard, the dissatisfied, the passionate, the suspicious, and those who live upon others' means—are forever unhappy." The Talking Beasts Niggard, grudging, miserly, unproductive, e.g. the Glittering Heath is called "niggard ground." The Story of Sigurd the Volsung A friend should not come home to her from perils of land and sea, and find her ungrateful--a niggard of sympathy and praise. The Testing of Diana Mallory Frugal one may be," continued Slow-toes; "but not a niggard like the Jackal— 'The Jackal-knave, that starved his spirit so, And died of saving, by a broken bow.' Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala No niggard churl our High Chieftain, But lavishly His gifts are made, Like streams from a moat that flow amain, Or rushing waves that rise unstayed. The Pearl It seems to me that Heaven, whose course has ever been to cross-bias me, as Herbert said, is no niggard in its compensations. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I He was particularly remarkable for being always full of money, of which he was no niggard, but ready to do anybody a service, and consequently was very far from being ill-beloved. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences The envious man is niggard of the gifts of Providence, and an enemy of the innocent:—I met a dry-brained fellow of this sort, tricked forth in the robe of a dignified person. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Mayest thou beam forth to his doors all auspicious days and the wealth and the splendor of the niggard. Sacred Books of the East "Oh, I never complain," was the reply; "I was only thinking of the niggard economy of Nature in building a great big beast like you and not giving him any mouth." Cobwebs from an Empty Skull He may have been a niggard of warm-heartedness to the outside world, but it is clear from his biography that he possessed the genius of a good heart as well as of a great mind. Old and New Masters The wretch a palace built, whereon to gaze, And sighing, shivering there around to stray; To give a penny would the niggard craze, And worse than bane he hates the minstrel’s lay. Targum "The wilful sorceress is no niggard in accommodating her followers," said the mariner, observing the manner in which the Queen's officer was employed. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas As with a club smite the niggards in all directions, and him who deceives us, O god with fiery jaws. Sacred Books of the East For whether bounteous Summer sport her stores, Or niggard Winter bind them—still the forms Most grand, most elegant, that Nature wears Beneath Columbia’s skies, are here combin’d. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Business was active, speculation was carried to the furthest limit, everybody had money in abundance, and scattered it with no niggard hand. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation Uproot a stately plant from its fertile, maternal soil, and there will still cling lovingly to it much that can seem superfluous only to a niggard. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Is it a niggard you are grown to be, McDonough, and you with riches in your hand? New Irish Comedies But the niggard guards them carefully, fearing to lose them, worn by anxiety, but never fearing 'inconstancy,' and that accumulated sorrow, when he loses all! Sacred Books of the East Some god, we dimly guessed, our niggard vows Resenting, had upon Phoroneus' realm Let loose this very scourge of humankind. Theocritus, translated into English Verse This struggle, like that with the niggard soil, produced a sturdy race, conscious of its strength, which extended its power to the coasts of the Baltic, and successfully planted Germanic culture in the far North. Germany and the Next War I spent them all next dayOn a new chapel on the Eisenthal;There were no choristers but nightingales—No teachers there save bees: how long is this?Have you turned niggard? The Saint's Tragedy As Milne-Edwards has well expressed it, Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation. Famous Reviews Save us, O Agni, from the sorcerer, save us from mischief, from the niggard. Sacred Books of the East He was no niggard either of money or of ideas; nay, even profligate of both. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. De Profundis It is well, bold Robin!—but when you come to see me in merry London, I trust to be a less niggard host. Ivanhoe The Duke of Vanholt's an honourable gentleman, and one to whom I must be no niggard of my cunning. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 The hater of the niggard band, The chief who loves the Northman's land, Was only twelve years old when he His Russian war-ships put to sea. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway The evening sky was sinister and cold; The willows shivered, wanly lay the snow; The uncommiserating land, so old, So worn, so grey, so niggard in its woe, Peered through its ragged shroud. Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Sir 31:24 But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not be doubted of. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha He is a niggard not merely with regard to money but all the good things for which He has given us a desire, with no intention of allowing that desire to be gratified. The Conquest of Fear They are either not so rich in love as I am, or they are niggards where I am lavish. The Letters of Robert Burns The moment it becomes clear to their niggard souls that there's no money to be lost by treason, will they not delight to help on any trouble the Yankees contrive to make for England? In the Valley Such is a Christian: and what is a niggard? Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Sir 14:3 Riches are not comely for a niggard: and what should an envious man do with money? Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha The God who fails to protect us from fear fails, I believe, because we see Him first of all as a niggard God. The Conquest of Fear You will not send me your poetic rambles, but, you see, I am no niggard of mine. The Letters of Robert Burns My friend availed himself of this advice in no niggard spirit; I felt as if we were fleeing for our lives in throttling fear after some frightful atrocity. Alarms and Discursions A Christian niggard is the veriest nonsense that can be; for what is a Christian? Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II No firm-set rock Marked field from field by niggard masters held. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse Then facing Mrs. Hsüeh, "I'm not a niggard, fond of winning money," she went on to say, "but it was my good luck!" Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books If we must encounter peril and disaster, what avails it to suspend the trial for a few niggard hours? Imogen A Pastoral Romance Chiefest of guests at Love's ungrudging feast, Play not the niggard; spurn thy native clod, And self disown; Live to thy neighbor; live unto thy God; Not to thyself alone! Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Nature has been a niggard to him in inventiveness. Lord Kilgobbin It would be a pity if the old niggard made an end of such a pretty lad.' Popular Tales from the Norse He had fought at Sedan, had thrown his life with no niggard hand into the balance. The Isle of Unrest But faint and slow the niggard dawn expands, Diffused o'er various far dissunder'd lands, Dreading, as well it may, to prove once more The same sad chance so often proved before. The Columbiad But money is distributed with a niggard hand, and only once a year. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Then he set forth to him all her charms and accomplishments, and added: 'I give thee joy, if thou buy her, for she is a gift from Him who is no niggard of His giving.' The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Show me the niggard who hath won glory by avarice! The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Was speech-famed Quin himself to hear him speak, Envy would drive the colour from his cheek; But step-dame Nature, niggard of her grace, Denied the social powers of voice and face. Poetical Works It is difficult enough," he would say, when he had slept off his intoxication, "but I'll be even with the niggards! Dame Care Mr. Creel by furnishing a list of Republicans appointed by the President to conspicuous office has disproved the charge against the President of niggard partisanship. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Sans doubt she makes her niggard fare seem dainty cakes to those under her art.” Grisly Grisell That he was not a niggard, / beyond a doubt he soon had shown. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original Nature in him betrayed no niggard touch Of corporate or ethereal. Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. Our vast and fertile downs were never destined to be idle and unproductive for months and months, dependent only on the niggard clouds o'erhead. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 I am a hardened niggard of public money. Indian speeches (1907-1909) And then, too, in the case of woman, it is only reason of a sort—very niggard in its dimensions. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism I am no niggard, you shall have your fill. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 For once, fortune hath not been a niggard with me. The Bravo Cunningly had he clutched a few golden moments from the hoard that Fate, the niggard, guards from us so jealously. The Boss of Little Arcady I am not saying there are not instances of niggard feeling, though I am not about to name them, which really it was hardly possible to believe could exist. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine The greatest niggard on the street would pay two pins for such a sight. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come Prodigality, is it true? young, wasteful, roisting Prodigality, To encounter old, sparing, covetous, niggard Tenacity? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 Thou hearest that the patricians are not niggard of their gold, when there is hope of his being taken. The Bravo But most of all because they are free-handed, and we can be only niggards. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Back—thou canst aid thy friend no more, The niggard time already flown— His life is forfeit—save thine own! The Poems of Schiller — Third period "My choicest gifts to him I gave, And ever blest him with my smile; And yet he ceases not to crave, And calls me niggard all the while." The Poems of Schiller — First period Say, are thy youthful hours Doled in such niggard measure that thou must Be chary of then to thy aged uncle? Wilhelm Tell The authorities of the London and Suburban Bank were no niggards. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories Did niggard fate no peers afford, He took, of course, to peers' relations; And, rather than not sport a lord, Put up with even the last creations. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe Sleep, like other earthly blessings, is niggard of its favours when most courted. The Abbot He easily conceived that my uncle was somewhat of a niggard from the manner in which I had employed myself during my preparation for the bar. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story Pshaw, man!" said Lord Dalgarno, "I spoke but according to the trick of the time; besides, a man must set a piece or two sometimes, or he would be held a cullionly niggard. The Fortunes of Nigel He's a miserly niggard, a scurvy fellow, that's what I say! The Fat and the Thin My whole hopes are now centred in Paris, for German princes are all niggards. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 Or ye, who count the niggard cost In time and coin and gear Of succoring the under-dog, How often have ye seen a hog, Establishing his glutton boast, Survive a famine year? The Eye of Zeitoon But I think, from what I have seen of him last night, that he is not such a niggard and misanthrope as I was led to believe. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley By our own niggard rule we try The hope to suppliants given! The Christian Year On March 7 he writes: "I have centered all my hopes on Paris, for the German princes are all niggards." Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words They know what each gives—whether freely or with a niggard hand—and each shall be paid back in his own coin. The Vultures Are they so precious that I, like a disgusting niggard, should spare them? Henry VIII and His Court There was once a merchant, who was a niggard and miserly in his eating and drinking. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 Then he set forth to him all her charms and accomplishments, and added, "I give thee joy if thou buy her, for this be a gift from Him who is no niggard of His giving." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 There were many damaged heads, for the cuirassiers had not been niggard with their sabers. The Puppet Crown But niggard Nature's trick of birth Bars, lest she overjoy, Renewal of the loved on earth Save with alloy. Wessex Poems and Other Verses Little, alas! was left my wretched share, Except a house, a covert from the air: But what by niggard fortune was denied, A willing widow's copious wealth supplied. The Odyssey Their ardor would have been damped, their energy cramped, their inclination to give would have fallen far below the necessities of the time: for money was sorely needed—no niggard offerings, but immense sums. Irish Race in the Past and the Present But for us, for the most of us, civilization has bred desires which she forbids us to satisfy, and so is not merely a niggard but a torturer also. Signs of Change It would be no niggard praise to Mr. Wordsworth to grant that he was either half the man or half the poet that Milton was. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Or Pharaoh may have been niggard in his gifts to that college of the great god of his House. Moon of Israel Morning and evening we were brought a niggard allowance of bread and water; but the man who carried it bore no light, and may not even have observed their absence. To Have and to Hold We are no niggards of our rewards and honors—we have no hireling votes to truckle to—we know our friends! Clarence Oft has he tried, the niggard soul, The mighty stones away to roll, As useless burdens of his ground; But they for that too big were found. Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces The thatch of hair, dust-coloured, straight and sparse, advertised the niggard soil, as did the nose, thin, delicately modelled, and just hinting the suggestion of a beak. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii You must not hold me a niggard when I would fain give you so fair a boon. Cliges; a romance And old and angry niggards of dispence,* *expense God send them soon a very pestilence! The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems To Tyre he must naturally have looked for no niggard or grudging support. History of Phoenicia We cannot be niggard with Kahekili and cut his allotment of sacrifice in half.' On the Makaloa Mat We meet with this admission in the writings of almost every experienced naturalist; or, as Milne Edwards has well expressed it, "Nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation." The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition As much in Scotland as in America does the English visitor blush when he thinks how perfunctory and niggard, in comparison, English hospitality is. And Even Now He is too great a niggard that will werne* *forbid A man to light a candle at his lantern; He shall have never the less light, pardie. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems Oh, make my anger pure—let no worst wrong Rouse in me the old niggard selfishness. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Women he would encounter—young or old, dark or fair, ugly or beautiful, it was all one to him—and the fools who withheld him riches must be punished for their niggard hand. A Book of Scoundrels We can, in short, see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition What could the life have been among these rugged and inhospitable Highlands, on this niggard and reluctant soil? The Blue Flower If not from hell, the devil is a niggard, Or has given all before, and he begins A new hell in himself. King Henry VIII The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And nature must obey necessity; Which we will niggard with a little rest. Julius Caesar Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement? The Comedy of Errors The apple trees were in full bloom, and, as I stood gazing, the sun, which had all that day been niggard of its beams, burst forth gloriously. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft By an actual Bottom the weaver our pity might be reached for the sake of his single self-reliance, his fancy and resource condemned to burlesque and ignominy by the niggard doom of circumstance. Essays Or, following another ancient example, we say, like the rich niggards who neglected Theocritus, “Homer is enough for all.” Letters on Literature By an actual Bottom the Weaver our pity might be reached for the sake of his single self-reliance, his fancy and resource condemned to burlesque and ignominy by the niggard doom of circumstance. The Rhythm of Life We meet with this admission in the writings of almost every experienced naturalist; or, as Milne Edwards has well expressed it, nature is prodigal in variety, but niggard in innovation. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life Your chief is either a niggard, or you are a fool, to come empty-handed into the mountains. South Sea Tales Nor shall that be a niggard company if there follow him those five bond-women and eight bondmen, whom my father gave me, and those burn there withal who were slain with Sigurd. The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda |
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