| 单词 | penuriousness |
| 例句 | Offended by such penuriousness, Michael Angelo demanded and received one hundred and forty ducats! Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z The penuriousness of this singular man seemed, however, to have for its object the indulgence of a systematic benevolence. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Therefore they were all the more embittered at the penuriousness they showed in the food, and many other matters. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z There were no contending elements in his nature; no struggles of ambition; no strife of penuriousness; no battling of passion. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z From a condition of absolute penuriousness, he raised himself to the position of master tailor, from which, at the age of forty-five, he was able to retire upon an income of �1,1000. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z What, however, lent a show of truth to the critics, was the penuriousness which increased more and more in Kamionka. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z This house was occupied, during the preceding months, by a Frenchman: his dress and demeanour were respectable: his mode of life was frugal almost to penuriousness, and his only companion was a daughter. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z Mind, I counsel no penuriousness, no mean retrenchment for accumulation, no domestic pillage, no mere selfish gratification. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z Millionaires are very apt to manifest this characteristic, but with them it generally arises through a miserly penuriousness of disposition; their imitators, however, are even more deficient than they in common sense. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z She is the wise wife who can steer between penuriousness and such recklessness as is described in the following cutting from an American periodical. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Those who judged that with his penuriousness he must have collected a considerable property were mistaken. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z At Ryanair headquarters, he cultivated a reputation for penuriousness, banning cover sheets on faxes and requiring employees to buy their own pens. Ryanair's O'Leary: The Duke of Discomfort 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z As his despondency was wont to wear away, his penuriousness in the same degree increased; and at such periods a penny for the most necessary purpose was obstinately refused. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 For sake of gifts be not false, By denial, by penuriousness; For thy soul to thee is more precious By far than the gifts. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 “Well! suppose I do offer you twenty-five for it, Mis’ Harrison?” exclaimed Spink, evidently greatly spurred by desire, yet curbed by his own natural penuriousness. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks His circumstances, or rather his father's penuriousness, prevented it; and the consequence was, that he frequently found himself considerably below his own standard of perfection in the article toggery. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Wadislaw, himself had the reputation of penuriousness, and that his family had lived in the style they had was because Mrs. Wadislaw’s personal income paid expenses. A Daughter of the Forest Wordsworth has been accused of excessive penuriousness, of overwhelming conceit, and of being slovenly and regardless of dress. Home Life of Great Authors His first meal at his new place confirmed all he had heard about the penuriousness of his master. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks In the very volumes he celebrated the arts, he disgraced them by his penuriousness; so that he loved to indulge his avarice at the expense of his vanity! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Among other failings attributed to this Lord Chief Justice was the extreme penuriousness he practised in his domestic arrangements and his dress. Law and Laughter Finally Lenyard, his national pride rising at the spectacle of the Austrian's penuriousness, paid the entire bill with a ten-franc piece. Melomaniacs No law punishes him for avarice and penuriousness; for refusing to lend, to give, to aid, and to help his wronged neighbor secure justice. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost With the exception of Kenyon and Eldon, and one or two less conspicuous instances of judicial penuriousness, the judges of the Georgian period were hospitable entertainers. A Book About Lawyers While I believe in judicious economy, I despise penuriousness. Twenty Years of Hus'ling Self-centred, of narrow views, strong prejudices, saving to penuriousness, whatever there was of sentiment, or warm human impulse, in his nature, seemed to have been buried with Bruce’s mother. The Man from the Bitter Roots Meantime, things were becoming very serious; with all his penuriousness, he had arrived at his last half-sovereign. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols True, they often degenerated into penuriousness and labor that was early and late—so severe, indeed, it cost many a life; and the people who came after reaped the benefit. A Little Girl in Old Boston It seemed transformed by cupidity, a kind of mean penuriousness which he had observed in the faces of persons of small interests, but never to such a degree. The Lady Doc His penuriousness was as remarkable as his taste. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Because ignorance, and prejudice, and selfishness, and stubbornness, and penuriousness are still keeping many people in the trenches. On the Firing Line in Education I observed before that Mr Culpepper wore a flaxen wig, and I felt sure, from his penuriousness, that he was not likely to have more than one on board. Percival Keene It is France's penuriousness and meanness and her exaggerated thrift that stands most in the way of her material greatness now. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Usually, stories of thrift and penuriousness are told of the Scotch without doing them much injustice, while bulls are designated Irish with sufficient reasonableness. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers The thrift of New England did often shrivel into penuriousness. A Little Girl in Old Salem Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife It is altogether different from penuriousness: for it is economy that can always best afford to be generous. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success The ragged guards around, clad in their miserable butternut suits, growled many uncomplimentary allusions to the penuriousness of their own government, in contrast with the munificence of ours. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure Scotch, the, v, 94; humor of, xiii, 11; manners of, i, 72; penuriousness of, xi, 264; religion of, i, 72; two kinds of, xi, 169. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians The Barlows, by the way, were regarded with a sort of contemptuous toleration by the Wallencampers in general, on account of their thrift and penuriousness, the branded qualities of sordid and unpoetic natures. Cape Cod Folks A rhyming elegy on Brooke, published in Huth's Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, brings charges of extreme penuriousness against him, but of his generous treatment of contemporary writers there is abundant testimony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" I have mentioned the penuriousness of my employers. Confessions of Boyhood What others would have accepted as penuriousness she recognized as a sense of well-balanced justice. Parrot & Co. "The penuriousness of rich men is a constant surprise to me," said Mr. Forbes. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax In public, the populace had no complaints to urge of his penuriousness; and in all outward shows he manifested the same general characteristics which marked the habit of the class to which he belonged. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia On the other hand, the extravagant, sometimes wilfully, sometimes unconsciously, fall into the same error of applying to the noble self-denial of economy the degrading misnomers of avarice, penuriousness, &c. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends The one made them rather poorer than richer; the other brought upon them a growing habit of penuriousness, gloom and irritability. Confessions of Boyhood "That is ridiculous!" exclaimed Ruth, who had less patience now than she once had for her great uncle's penuriousness. Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund Such a character, involving a true and vigorous evolution of body, mind and spirit, is an effectual safeguard against the evils of prodigality, the disgrace of penuriousness, and the woes of vice and crime. The Christian Home And erelong we find Byron, the wasteful, cultivating the good old gentlemanly habit of penuriousness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors Such, however, you will at once deny to be the case of those from whose penuriousness your early years have suffered; you know that their character is not thus bare of virtues. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back. Sermons for the Times Buonarroto tells me that you live at Rome with great economy, or rather penuriousness. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti It is altogether different from penuriousness: for it is economy that can always best afford to be generous. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance He pointed at himself and family with a wave of the hand intended to bring out the penuriousness of the exhibition. The Mayor of Casterbridge There are other persons who, though they cannot in all cases be censured for penuriousness, have imbibed a very pernicious error. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Nature, it is said, thus making amends in one way, for her penuriousness in the other. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa Now economy is good, but penuriousness is evil, seeing that it is a vice displeasing to God and men, and moreover injurious both to soul and body. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti He had so often remonstrated with Agatha about her penuriousness as concerned stationery. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations Dollars have come slowly and painfully, and have thus, in one sense, a fictitious worth; but penuriousness is almost unknown, and the hardest working man or woman gives freely where a need is really felt. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time A withered old woman stopped to ask food and hospitality at the house of a dweller on this promontory, noted for his penuriousness. The Hawaiian Archipelago With that penuriousness characteristic of bankers, their papas, it was clear, had not stocked their purses with change enough to cover their wants, which habitually ran to ice-water and something in it. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter He lived with an almost culpable penuriousness in what concerned his personal expenditure. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Steadily he persisted in what seemed to us a growing penuriousness. All's for the Best When she had become the mistress of the big stone house, she had struggled hard against her husband's penuriousness, defiantly sometimes, and sometimes tearfully. Sowing Seeds in Danny All this spoke, not of poverty, but of sordid penuriousness. Under Western Eyes For which reason he referred them to their maternal uncle, a man of known and remarkable penuriousness. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury. The Magic Skin |
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