skinflint
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Jack argued the matter upon a specie basis, and Skinflint took to "moral suasion."
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
Maybe he wants the farm, seeing old Skinflint didn't get it.
From At the Little Brown House by Brown, Ruth Alberta
"No, my men and I are not cowards, old Skinflint," Syphax said, "but you may as well understand now that we do not intend to risk our lives for nothing."
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
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)
"I had my pail heaped a dozen times, and shook down too, and Gavin Hume spilled all his on an ant hill, and he said Old Skinflint would thrash him, so I gave him mine."
From In Orchard Glen by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
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