sparingness
Example Sentences
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In its essence it belongs to the Old Comedy, but in the sparingness of personal satire, and in the mild tone which prevails throughout, we may trace an approximation to the Middle Comedy.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
It is not your sin—it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Books are cold, jejune, vexatious in their sparingness of information at one time and their impertinent loquacity at another.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
By a sparingness in diet, and eating, as much as may be, what is light and easy of digestion, I shall doubtless be able to think more clearly, and shall gain time: 1.
From Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity by A. E. Winship
Habits of modesty and of sparingness might perhaps deprive the world of as much wealth as they would save.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
