She thought over the year, and while she deplored the estrangement from home, she knew that if she had to go back to one year ago, giving up the present and what it had brought and promised to bring, for a reconciliation with her father, she would not voluntarily return to the old driving, nagging, overwork, and Skimping, missing every real comfort of life to buy land, in which she never would have any part.
"A Daughter of the Land"
Gene Stratton-Porter
Well, she colored up, and looked every which way at first, but then she gave a Skimping laugh, and said that I didn't understand French.
"Phemie Frost's Experiences"
Ann S. Stephens
I know in my own case that I very often find myself-ah-Skimping, so to speak; I mean going over a thing without really getting the-ah-the meat out of it.
"Left End Edwards"
Ralph Henry Barbour