They not only gave him an opportunity of safely diminishing the weight of his structure and economising his materials, they afforded a ready means of adapting his wall exactly to the work it had to do.
"A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1"
Georges Perrot Charles Chipiez
No one was ashamed of economising with his slaves in this manner; the law of slavery itself existing principally as a money-making institution.
"Satanstoe"
James Fenimore Cooper
For some considerable time past I have been severely economising with a view to paying off some alarming mortgages on the estate, so that I should not have been in a position to allow Charles much in the way of an income.
"The Mystery of the Four Fingers"
Fred M. White