unthrift

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Wonder why Shakespeare looked ahead and harpooned me with that word unthrift.

From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre

Before us is the old town we are seeking,—a type perhaps of the nation itself, in its courtly unthrift, its proud misgovernance.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

Then from that shore the wind upbore a cry: `Thou Sea, thou Sea of Darkness! why, oh why Dost waste thy West in unthrift mystery?'

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

So it is—idleness, unthrift, and bad farming generally, degrading it far below its possibilities and natural standard of production.

From About Ireland by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

Lulled by smooth-rippling loans, in idle trance He lay, content that unthrift Circumstance Should plough for him the stony field of Chance.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various