close-fisted
Example Sentences
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He ain't close-fisted about money matters, I know, for I've had dealin's with him myself, and, besides, you ain't been married to him long enough to have to call on him for anything.'
From The Land of Long Ago by Hall, Eliza Calvert
He was a close-fisted, mysterious old fellow, and—well, I decided to get out.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.
Washington was accused of being close-fisted, but some one takes the ground that a man must close his fist if there is something in it that others were seeking by illegitimate means to get.
From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon
A grim landlord, hard creditor, close-fisted patron, and a smileless neighbor who neither gambled nor drank, old Hays, as he was called, while yet scarce fifty, had few acquaintances and fewer friends.”
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
Even so variously informed a person as the author of "A Short History of the English People," published in 1875, speaks of the "close-fisted Franklin."
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
