niggards
- plural of niggard.
Example Sentences
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“Be niggards of advice on no pretence, For the worst avarice is that of sense.” l.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
Heber's generosity has been nobly praised by Scott, who contrasts the hard-heartedness of other bibliophiles, those "gripple niggards" who preferred holding on to their treasures, with his friend's careless liberality.
From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes
Don't be niggards in this; it cheers the Doctor's heart, and it will lighten yours.
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by Brown, John
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.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
The authorities of the London and Suburban Bank were no niggards.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
