thriftless

Was it likely, then, that she ever would have spoken to three thriftless knaves?

With thriftless waste of rubber a black Studebaker jerked to a stop In front.

The Burman is a generous, often thriftless fellow; to him money is not the chief value in life.

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

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

The Little People were vivid, emotional, thriftless; the Saxons were stolid, hardworking, religious and respectable.

So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd; And he shall spend mine honour with his shame, As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.

An article in The Chicago Herald in 1895 described Augustus as "...inert, indifferent and thriftless.

Charles Booth included a category labelled 'Drunken or thriftless wife', quite separate from the general category of 'Drink', in his list of nine causes of poverty.

The countryside was an empty black sheet, with a few occasional flickers in the windows of some government structures, and the trembling glow of candles in the windows of thriftless homes.

Many and many a room (in their wandering and thriftless existence) had he seen his wife furnish with exquisite taste, and perhaps with 'considerable luxury': now it was his turn to be the decorator.

Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich (and notoriously thriftless) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy.

I start at daybreak to-morrow: mayhap we shall never meet again, save in Heaven, if indeed, there be room there for such a thriftless adventurer as I." "But whither do you mean to go, sir?"

"And we not teach Men to find them, for Men are greedy and thriftless, and would not spare till all the plants had perished; whereas now they pass them by as they go blundering in the wild.

Down came the teams attended by their slaves, circling and wheeling into the open place, and as they passed each group those lazy, lolling beggars crowded round and took the dole they were too thriftless to earn themselves.

"You have heard that emissaries of the Dark Em- pire pay court to the Calif of Istanbul and pay that thriftless monarch to let them station a large force of bull-masked warriors within the city walls?"

Both Evangelicals and Utilitarians wished to impose the middle-class way of life upon their thriftless fellow men, whose poverty, they believed, was in great measure attributable to improvident and ungodly habits, such as addiction to drink and raising illegitimate children.

This seemed the only good, to be one with the living mountain, with her birds and goats and wolves and her sunning snakes and flower-bells, drinking the strong honey from her thriftless breast, living each breath just as it came.

Like Zouga himself, he had speculated by buying up original land grants from the thriftless drifters that made up the bulk of the original column and had paid them in whisky, carried up from the railhead in his own wagons.

Butcher's bills and house rent seemed to fill her eyes with sleepless anxiety; thriftless cooks and saucy housemaids to sharpen the tones of her shrill voice; and an incapable husband to burden her shoulders like a modern "Old man of the sea."

Our pride was perhaps a little modified when we were joined on our high places by a certain thriftless loafer of a white; and yet I was glad too, for the man had a smattering of native, and could give me some idea of the subject of the songs.

There are many passages of vague rantings and ravings, including: You have hawked in your throat and spat Outrage upon the velocipede of thriftless Mechanical men posting themselves that Built you a gibbet in the vile morass Which now you must dangle on, alas.

Tebbitt thought of the bulge of the wallet in Westover's back pocket with bitter annoyance, for Gus, the most thriftless of people, through the mysterious sources of racing men had information which enabled him whenever he was ashore to place bets that never left him short of money.

As none of these appeared to entice her imagination, he went on to rebuke her want of foresight, and, still later, having unsuccessfully pointed out to her the inevitable penury and degradation in which her thriftless perversity would involve her later years, to kick the less substantial appointments across the tent.