1 It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them, and I had wasted almost half the box in astonishing the Upper-worlders, to whom fire was a novelty.
2 Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor.
3 You see I am obliged to economize, in case your prosperity should cease.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. 4 It irritated her, but she was ashamed to confess it, and now and then she tried to console herself by buying something pretty, so that Sallie needn't think she had to economize.
5 They dined extravagantly at their hotel at night, and next morning sneaked round the corner to economize at a Childs' Restaurant.
6 Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 7 In order to economize in the matter of time, we arranged to have the whole school pass in review before the President.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVII. 8 The broader economic organization thus clearly demanded sprang up here and there as accident and local conditions determined.
9 Naturally the Negroes resented, at first bitterly, signs of compromise which surrendered their civil and political rights, even though this was to be exchanged for larger chances of economic development.
10 The average size of Negro families has undoubtedly decreased since the war, primarily from economic stress.
11 Such an economic organization is radically wrong.
12 This represents the lowest economic depths of the black American peasant; and in a study of the rise and condition of the Negro freeholder we must trace his economic progress from the modern serfdom.
13 All social struggle is evidenced by the rise, first of economic, then of social classes, among a homogeneous population.
14 To-day the following economic classes are plainly differentiated among these Negroes.
15 They have little to tide over a few years of economic depression, and are at the mercy of the cotton-market far more than the whites.