skinflint
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Do you suppose Skinflint is tortured with remorse at the idea of the distress which called to him in vain, and of the hunger which he sent empty away?
From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace
He was a Scotch boy, whom old Skinflint Jenkins' folks had adopted from an Orphan Asylum.
From In Orchard Glen by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
The captain, Skinflint by name, and as surly an old fellow as ever walked a quarter-deck, agreed to pay him wages, “if he behaved well.”
From Martin Rattler by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Mr. and Mrs. Skinflint are discovered in a Parlor in a Fashionable Square.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
But ever since the day Christina had saved him from Skinflint Jenkins' horse-whip, he had shown a tendency to follow her with adoringly humble eyes.
From In Orchard Glen by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
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