8 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WASTERFULNESS»
Discover the use of
wasterfulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wasterfulness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Town: A Civic Journal
... distribution and sale of bread and milk and such other staple articles of food as
now cost an excessive amount because of the extravagance and wasterfulness
of the present methods of local sales and distribution, if the committee annroves.
2
Yolande: The Story of a Daughter
His means are far beyond his wants — I take care there is no wasterfulness in the
housekeeping, for one thing ; and even if they were not, is there not my money ?
— and a proud woman I would be that day that he would take a penny of it !
The limmers, they wad think the Manse o' Gower a gye snug doonsettin', I'm
thinkin', and they wadna scunner to pit Maister John to a' kind o' expense for
furnishin's, baths, basins and siclike wasterfulness ! Oh, there's nae end to the
trashery ...
Samuel Rutherford Crockett,
1902
4
The pilgrim's progress: in two parts
My Lord, by his wilful unruliness, and by his obstinate wasterfulness, he hath
often endangered the whole Island of Man, the lower part called Corps, and the
higher called Soul, and in a manner delivered them into the enemy's hand. For
the ...
John Bunyan, Thomas Scott,
1828
5
The English dialect dictionary
28, 1896). n.Lan.l Stf. The Chronicle (Oct. 25, 1901). Not.1 9, LeiJ, Suf. (C.L.F.),
Hmp. (H.C.M.B.) Hence (I) Wasterful,an'j. wasteful, extravagant, lavish; (2)
Wasterfully, adv. wastefully, extravagantly; (3) Wasterfulness, sb. extravagance, ...
6
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Post (Nov. 28, 1896). n.La.n.l Stf. The Chronicle (Oct. 25, 1901). Not", LetJ, Sut'. (
C.L.F.), Hmp. (H.C.M.B.) Hence (1) Wasterful, all)'. wasteful, extravagant, lavish; (
2) wasterfully, adv. wastefully, extravagantly; (3) Wasterfulness, sb. extravagance
...
7
How to work & live with difficult people
This life pattern lends itself to wasterfulness, ineffectiveness and deliberate
abandonment of the land. Then, at one stage, deliberate efforts were made in
Nigeria, to have farm settlements where people leaving primary schools could be
...
L. O. Oladejo Oyelakin,
1999
We once got one on Improvidence." " That's the opposite ! " " Yes ; wasterfulness
and so on. My essay was mostly about intemperance and fur coats and scraps
left at the side of your plate, and so on ; and I gave an anecdote on'providence 73
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