"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 |
