They were a very canty and contented couple, for they had enough to live on, and enough to do.
"The Scottish Fairy Book"
Elizabeth W. Grierson
Na, na," said Jock with a canty kind of content in his voice, "they may luik a lang while or they wad think o' luikin' for him atween the foundation an' the spring o' the airch.
"The Lilac Sunbonnet"
S.R. Crockett
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of canty, who did not want him.
"The Prince and The Pauper, Part 1."
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)