Savings

Examples

• You've got one friend as I knows of; one as is good for a Savings-Bank book, or I'm a blue monkey! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We wanted a hundred and ten pounds: your mother has ninety-two, and I have none to spare in the bank; and she thinks that you have some savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• When I came to New York I put $30 into a savings-bank under the New York Sun office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When it is all over, she said, you will be glad of my savings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With my love and respects--and I can't find it in my conscience to take a poor girl's savings, when she may want them herself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Even this small reduction of debt, however, has not been all made from the savings out of the ordinary revenue of the state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Soon his savings were gone, and he had to look about for a new means of living. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If he was an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ his annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The young lapidary was poor, and he had spent part of his savings in working out his scheme of block-printing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I spend my savings so, once every year. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Still, I'm not easy in my mind about taking the poor thing's little savings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Miret will not be extortionate: the first year's rent you have already in your savings; afterwards Miss Lucy must trust God, and herself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He would want to help me out of his little savings, I knew, and I knew that he ought not to help me, and that I must not suffer him to do it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But at this moment he suddenly saw himself as a pitiful rascal who was robbing two women of their savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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