Example Sentences

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All winter it will shake out seeds unthriftily upon the snow, standing with a calm brotherhood who have gone beyond dependence on the day.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

I will not unthriftily spill my letters any more there, where they returne me no fruit.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

“Oh, now I love you!” she cried, a-thrill with disappointment to find him so unthriftily high-minded.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

Ye say ye make war for the safeguard of the commonweal, yea, but noway sooner nor more unthriftily may the commonweal perish than by war.

From Against War by Erasmus, Desiderius

You know the modest sunne full fifteene times Blushing did rise, and blushing did descend, While I in making of these ill made rimes, My golden bowers unthriftily did spend.

From Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George