unthriftily

Inexperienced journalists, in the first effervescence of youth, make a labor of love of ephemeral work, and lavish their best thought unthriftily thereon.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

I will not unthriftily spill my letters any more there, where they returne me no fruit.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Philosophers are absurd from many causes, but principally from laying out unthriftily their distinctions.

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922

"Oh, now I love you!" she cried, a-thrill with disappointment to find him so unthriftily high-minded.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

For that they get by fighting, immediately they spend unthriftily and wretchedly in riot.

The Second Book. Of Warfare 1909

He said that his Mamma was dying, and that it was not wholesome for any man to lie unthriftily in the presence of 'Estreekin Sahib'.

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Rudyard Kipling 1900

He said that his Mamma was dying and that it was not wholesome for any man to lie unthriftily in the presence of "Estreeken Sahib."

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

There is hardly a garden in the village, I think, which does not contain a corner or a strip given over unthriftily, not to useful vegetables, but to daffodils or carnations or dahlias, or to the plants of sweet scent and pleasant names, like rosemary and lavender, and balm, and mignonette.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

"Imagine it," Miss Linden went on, -- "imagine this one little real flower bending over a whole garden of muslin marigolds and silk sunflowers and velvet verbenas, growing unthriftily in a bed of white muslin!"

Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

Inexperienced journalists, in the first effervescence of youth, make a labor of love of ephemeral work, and lavish their best thought unthriftily thereon.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824