put-by

I set it down that no such disgrace would ever fall on our family if I could help it, and when he got better I set to put-by every penny that could be spared, and many a hank I have spun and stocking knitted to get the pennies.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

I had not even realised that the vessel was his own, taking it for granted that it had been hired, all standing, for a week or two with the put-by economies of a year.

Love, the Fiddler Lloyd Osbourne 1907

Even if her father's objections were ignorant prejudices, they were positive convictions to him, and she did not like to see them smiled at, entertained by the cast of the eye, and the put-by of the turning hand.

Winter Evening Tales Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

At first Mr. Gladstone insisted on such a short term of repayment, and therefore so heavy a put-by, that his terms took away the pecuniary value of the guarantee itself: that is to say, that what the Colonies would have annually to pay, would have amounted to more than the annual sum for which they could have borrowed the money themselves.

Canada and the States 1860

I suggested a longer term, and also, that the interest on the annual put-by, to accumulate, should be altered so as to alleviate the burden.

Canada and the States 1860

Mr. and Mrs. Galindo often planned to live upon their own small fortune and the income derived from the living (a vicarage, of which the great tithes went to Sir Lawrence as lay impropriator), so as to put-by the payments made by the baronet, for the benefit of

My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837