...Don’t marry a miser...
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...There was a kind of nobleness in this that took my breath away; if my uncle was certainly a miser, he was one of that thorough breed that goes near to make the vice respectable...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...You will live long, if you act like the miser who, bit by bit, crumb by crumb, collects and heaps up diamonds and gold...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... “Twelve thousand francs! Are you mad?” cried Baisemeaux; “the old miser gave me no more than six thousand, and the expenses of the post amounted to six thousand five hundred francs...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... “Well! what harm can she meditate against me? I am no miser with women who are not prudes...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...Like the miser, he broods over his treasures: he does not use them...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...An excellent economist and profound philosopher was that miser who took as his motto, "WHEN A GUINEA IS EXCHANGED, IT EVAPORATES...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
... Years pass without my finding a brown-thrasher's nest; it is not a nest you are likely to stumble upon in your walk; it is hidden as a miser hides his gold, and watched as jealously...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...Years pass without my finding a brown thrasher'snest; it is not a nest you are likely to stumbleupon in your walk; it is hidden as a miser hideshis gold, and watched as jealously...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...His nursery and living-room is quite pretentious, but hislateral storeroom is a marvel! He is a miser indeed, and stores up everyacorn and nut he can find, even many times more than he can ever eat...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...)Not as men value gold because it tricksAnd blazons outward Life with ornament,But rather as the miser, for itself...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
... The miser says...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) 「The System of Nature, Volume 1」
...When I got a good cheque I’d be as miserable as a miser over the first ten pounds I spent; but when I got down to the last I’d buy things for the house...
Henry Lawson 「Joe Wilson and His Mates」
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