"Scrimp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... familiarly known by the name of "Shrapnel," owing to several wounds of that kind which refused to close up, and completely heal, knew at once when he was "warned" for the line. Now, he disliked going out at nights, and consequently was in the habit of "scrimp-shanking," and proceeded forthwith to go lame. At first he managed to fool everybody, but on close investigation it was discovered that nothing at all ...
— Three years in France with the Guns: - Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery • C. A. Rose
... going to misunderstand me, as you have?" she asked, somewhat piteously. "Is it so strange and unheard of a thing for a woman to want a home and—and friends? Isn't it allowable for a person who has money to want to pay fair wages? Why should I scrimp and haggle and screw, when I want most of all to ...
— An Alabaster Box • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
... a third of the property as your own. I suppose it would be a third; but you might trust the lawyers to settle that properly. When once they take your daughter among them they won't scrimp you in your honours. They'll all swear that the marriage was good enough then. They know that already, and have made this offer because they know it. Your ladyship needn't fear now but what all the world will own you as the Countess Lovel. ...
— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope
... pushed on to the advanced observation post of the Artillery where I met General Stockdale, commanding the 15th Brigade, R.F.A., and not only saw how the land lay but heard some interesting opinions. Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:—that ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... course," echoed Mrs. Kollander, "of course. I tell John he's been in a county office now twenty years, drawing all the way from a thousand to three thousand a year—and what have we got to show for it? I scrimp and pinch and save, and John does too—but law me—it seems like the way times are—" Amos Adams, standing at the door, heard ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
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