unthrift

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If any good chaplain failed to “improve the occasion” let us hope that he lived to lament in sack-cloth-of-gold and ashes-of-roses his intellectual unthrift.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose

Those dearly loved friends should not again look upon the unthrift younker; and unless the man redeemed the courses wild of the youth, he would no more return.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

I am still a devotee of the homely primitive doctrine that mischance, disability or even unthrift, is not a capital crime justly and profitably punishable by starvation.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

Not inadequately provisioned for their work, they came repeatedly almost to perishing through their sheer incapacity and unthrift, and their needless quarrels with one another and with the Indians.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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