Then the pearl-fishers gave him the ten pearls and said to him, "Sell two of them and make them thy stock-in-trade: and hide the rest against the time of thy Straitness."
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
Herewith he repented and was perplexed concerning his procedure and grieved for that which must escape him of her company by reason of the Straitness of his hand, for that he had not a whit of spending-money.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
They had been treated to graphic descriptions of all its members, with illustrative anecdotes setting them forth in their best and worst lights; they had heard of the ancient splendours of the Castle, and the past glories of the family, and-for Pixie was gifted with a most engaging honesty-they had also heard of the present Straitness of means, the ingenious contrivances by which the family needs were supplied, and even of one tragic episode when the butcher refused to supply any more meat, just when one of the county magnates was expected to dinner!
"Pixie O'Shaughnessy"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey