close-fisted
Example Sentences
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Mr. Bumpkin looked for a few moments without speaking, and then said: “He wur allays a close-fisted un, and I should reckon have a goodish bit o’ property.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard
The close-fisted aristocrat felt himself fairly driven into a corner.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
Perhaps she was jealous of her husband's regard, and saw in him a potential Buckingham; certainly she disliked his close-fisted ways, which curbed her extravagance, always considerable, in money matters.
From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta
I certainly don’t like old Father Fletcher, close-fisted as he is, and stingy as any miser ever I met.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon
A grim landlord, hard creditor, close-fisted patron, and a smileless neighbor who neither gambled nor drank, old Hays, as he was called, while yet scarce fifty, had few acquaintances and fewer friends.”
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
