Economy

Usage examples of thrift.

It had come, like most of her dishes, from the Salvation Army thrift store.

And, as will further be seen in connection with the land-shark plague, the conditions of life under cacique rule would kill thrift in an ant-hill.

We must first learn industry, thrift, co-operation, team-work from barrio to barrio.

The society that celebrates luxury sometimes forgets to honor virtues like thrift and prudence and conservation.

These sales allow us to practice thrift without visiting a thrift store.

If fashion is a method of living both in the present and on the cusp of the coming future, thrift is a method of exercising an old-fashioned virtue for the longer future.

This new materialism might revive pre-materialist ideals of thrift, frugality, and sufficiency, and it might encourage us to design products for repair and re-use, and to consume materials fully before discarding them.

And if there were, as there were, avaricious men among them, we must be careful not to blame them more than those whose avarice or excessive thrift was economically more beneficial to the world and to the community and the colony and to themselves.

And the result of that discernment and thrift is now furnishing an analogue for the conscious utilization of other waste--waste of native capacity of the steel-worker for happiness and usefulness.

This combination of invisible thrift and conspicuous luxuries was not imposed on Madison by the limitations of the allowance Luke made to Tyler.

But by my thrift yet shall I blear their eye, For all the sleight in their philosophy.

Evil thrift come to your jaws, And eke to mine, if I it grant, Or do favour you to avaunt.

The slopes on either side were green and rocky and carpeted in many places with pink thrift and yellow gorse and white clover.

Watching him stand before Thrift and pledge himself to her while she blushed and smiled, scarcely able to look at him, envy burned in me.

I helped Chivalry raise the beams on the extra rooms he was building, and watched Molly and Thrift cook companionably together.