thriftily

"It is an example of thriftily doing a quick alteration on the face."

The mat should have been buried with its owner; but, the family being poor, it was thriftily reserved for a fresh service.

And you owe me five dollars," he added thriftily.

Thriftily then the colonists trade cured hides to other planets for goods.

Scooping it up, she decanted the thing thriftily into a glass jar.

Rather, since the reels of videotape were very costly, they were thriftily recycled.

Patrick wrote a question, putting it thriftily to the left of the question-mark he had already drawn: How tall?

Living thriftily and anonymously in a city of high rollers, she allowed herself only one final act of big spending.

He sought out honest officials and promoted them, and he himself lived thriftily.

How important is it that the institutions use tax revenue efficiently and thriftily, and how might we bring this about?

New England boiled dinner, followed thriftily by red-flannel hash to use up the leftovers.

The last man on the outside of the Niccola's hull thriftily brought his torch to the air lock and came in.

Thriftily, he decided against it.

And now that they were all gathered in around the fire, Kyrt-ian had thriftily canceled his mage-lights.

The French government had taken over the cave, but before reporting it the peasant had thriftily hidden away some small treasures to sell for himself.

Then they were inside the Hold, most of the glowbaskets thriftily shut, just enough half-open to show them the way to the stairs.

Here, thriftily, he made two deals.

The lanterns lit for the party had been removed, their candles thriftily snuffed for later use.

Evidently the slave had been thriftily disposing of any dregs left in the cups she collected for washing.

She was finishing a hearty breakfast, the remains of a water rat being buried thriftily against future need after the instincts of her kind.

He buys many of his seeds and plants thriftily at suburban discount stores and gardening centers.

There were acacia trees and scrubby brush, which the nomads used thriftily, to start fires, but never for the fire itself.

Whenever he stayed home in the evening he went to bed early, and thriftily got ahead in those dismal duties.

Daniel, the large and hairy, thriftily pinching the tiny types, was absurd as an elephant playing at being a hen.

Jamie put the cork thriftily back in, and tucked the empty bottle away in the creel.