"I am not willing," said the Prince, "to suppose that happiness is so parsimoniously distributed to mortals, nor can I believe but that, if I had the choice of life, I should be able to fill every day with pleasure.
"Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia"
Samuel Johnson
"The mother of an emperor, and yet living so parsimoniously that one might believe your son suffered you to starve!
"NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER"
L. Muhlbach
He dreamed those things over his cigarettes, smoked parsimoniously through a cheap holder until the stub was no longer than one of Marion's fingernails that Jack loved to look at because they were always so daintily manicured.
"The Lookout Man"
B. M. Bower