Crossword-Solution: PENURIOUSLY 11 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

That they would not so penuriously glean wit from every laundress or hackney-man; or derive their best grace, with servile imitation, from common stages, or observation of the company they converse with; as if their invention lived wholly upon another man's trencher.

Unless 'twere Lent, Ember-weeks, or fasting days, when the place is most penuriously empty of all other good outsides.

Unable, whatever his own straits, to deal penuriously with any one, Will had thought out a liberal arrangement, whereby all the dwelling part of the house should be given over, rent free, to Allchin and his wife, with permission to take one lodger; the assistant to be paid a small salary, and a percentage on shop takings when they reached a certain sum per month.

Elizabeth was not embodying the national instinct, when she talked of peace; and shrank penuriously from the expenses of war.

Poor though he is, yet he is happy!" (Act III, scene I.) Alas, this call to a more natural life, after centuries of physical degeneration and suppression of all feeling for nature, could not be understood, nor even taken seriously, in surroundings in which air, sunlight, the very right to live, had been refused or measured out penuriously.