The son had learned inadvertently that the old man and the sister-in-law Scrimped the whole year just to be able to give a grand spread on the day he was at home.
"The Emperor of Portugallia"
Selma Lagerlof
Scrimped a little, cried a little, prayed a little in private, but outwardly lived the life of the smug in body and soul.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Nearly every one had Scrimped and saved and gone without so long that the sudden influx of money into empty pockets had acted like wine in a hungry stomach.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley