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The quantity of labour, indeed, which it can purchase, is not always equal to what it could maintain, if managed in the most œconomical manner, on account of the high wages which are sometimes given to labour.

XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land 1909

He is now in the employment of the Executive as Superintendant of the repairs of the Capitol and the improvements on the Public square -- He is judicious, & oelig conomical and industrious in this business, and his management has given intire satisfaction.

Letters to and from Jefferson, 1819 [a machine-readable transcription] 1819

'conomical for once: and I was half sorry too that I'd flung away the jars, for I began to fancy your little uns might ha' liked the stuff; so

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

"Ye hae found it to your cost, that she is a most unreasonable, narrow, contracted woman, and wi 'a' her 'conomical througality -- her direction-books to mak grozart wine for deil-be-licket, and her Katy

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836