1
The Duke was a penurious man.
2
How wonderfully indignant the penurious man often is, at the avarice or want of public spirit of another!
3
The buyer of their farm was a hard-hearted, penurious man, a deacon of the church in which Draxy had been baptized.
4
Though not a stingy or penurious man, it was still true that of all earthly things he suffered most from a financial loss.
5
He was apparently in the neighborhood of five-and-forty, and looked like the debauchee in the face, while his dress indicated the penurious man of business.