"Niggardise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... full of wealth and my wealth I ne'er bestow, * A palsy take my hand and my foot ne'er rise again! Show my niggard who by niggardise e'er rose to high degree, * Or the generous gifts generally ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... by the elbowe, Diamante Castaldos the magnificos wife, after my enlargment proued to bee with childe, at which instant there grewe an vnsatiable famine in Venice, wherein, whether it were for meere niggardise, or that Castaldo still eate out his heart with iealousie, Saint Anne be our recorde, he turnde vp the heeles verie deuoutly. To master Aretine after this, once more verie dutifully I appeald, ...
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash |
