unthrift
Example Sentences
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Thou careless unthrift, ill-luck follows i' thy wake.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
C. The factory system is productive of intemperance, unthrift, and poverty.
From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Campbell, Helen
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
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
Wonder why Shakespeare looked ahead and harpooned me with that word unthrift.
From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre
