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The purse-lipped budgeters will deny these poor creatures the benefit of health care under the pretext of giving them a "choice" when, in truth, the only choice they have is whether to lose their homes and neglect their families or to seek the care that is needed from a recalcitrant welfare system that is being methodically choked by the same pinch-penny politicians who have created the situation.

OF ELEPHANTS AND BLUE DOGS 2009

No suits at law, no wars, no strife, debate, nor wrangling; none will be there a usurer, none will be there a pinch-penny, a scrape-good wretch, or churlish hard-hearted refuser.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

No suits at law, no wars, no strife, debate, nor wrangling; none will be there a usurer, none will be there a pinch-penny, a scrape-good wretch, or churlish hard-hearted refuser.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

You thinks I likes t 'hear the lads ashore mock me for a pinch-penny an' mean man?

Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893

Just look around you and ask yourself if the cost of a latte or a beer now and then would be as great a sacrifice as some pinch-penny naysayers would have you believe.

coloradoan.com - Local News 2010

No suits at law, no wars, no strife, debate, nor wrangling; none will be there a usurer, none will be there a pinch-penny, a scrape-good wretch, or churlish hard-hearted refuser.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Richard Pollak: Until the shipping community abandons its pinch-penny cynicism, piracy off the coast of Somalia is certain to grow.

The Nation: Top Stories 2009

"For the average worker, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan would probably look quite attractive," said Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, a pinch-penny advocacy group.

AroundTheCapitol.com 2009