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This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy.

Already, here in the outer lobby, the impression of penuriousness was beginning to fade.

But his penuriousness has effectively excluded him from his rightful position in the scheme of things.

The Daal's penuriousness was proverbial on Uldune.

To the Editor: Disputes between companies and the families of the World Trade Center victims over health care coverage (front page, Dec. 26) reflect more than corporate penuriousness.

There was a great deal of habit in his penuriousness; and his virtue, which was very remarkable among his associates, was principally founded upon diffidence and youth.

A Penurious Doctor.-Doctor DUFLIGNY left the reputation of extreme penuriousness.

A fusion of pride and practicality, extravagance and penuriousness, Ms. Nye grasps desperately for Trigorin, the writer, and in a flash collects herself, everything in place.

For his resoluteness in "not leading a life ruled by need and want" is less a sign of penuriousness than the defense of a realist who is terrified of poverty's ravages.

"I married at eighteen, like the fool that I was; and this is the consequence o't." He pointed at himself and family with a wave of the hand intended to bring out the penuriousness of the exhibition.

In fact, he said that both Kenyon and I would regret our penuriousness in refusing to help him, as he was certain it would result in some mischief, but did not say just what guise it might take.

And as an individual he continued the steep and steady decline toward becoming the monster he appears to be in the book's opening chapter, with incidents of megalomania, cruelty, violent racism and irrational penuriousness cropping up more and more frequently along the way.

His tragedy lay in his penuriousness, the inability of his father to provide either the income or the property necessary to enroll his son among even the lowest of the five economic classes; all his father had bequeathed him was the raw and simple citizenship itself.

Dad Rudd is shamed into hiring proper building contractors and erecting a fine cottage, at a cost of 'three hundred pounds'; indeed, in freeing himself from the penuriousness he knew as a penniless settler, Dad over-furnishes Dave's house such that even Mother 'shook her head disapprovingly'.

We all understood; Mr. Rickey didn't have tons of money like Horace Stoneham of the Giants, and in fact it was that very penuriousness, the philosophy of use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without, that so endeared the Dodgers to their fans.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called the biography "fascinating" for its portrayal of the "megalomania, cruelty, violent racism and irrational penuriousness" that characterized Cobb's evolution into the monster Mr. Stump met in 1960 when they split $6,000 from Doubleday to write "My Life in Baseball."