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1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) iii. ii, in Wks. I. 209 Vnlesse 't were Lent, Ember weekes, or Fasting dayes, when the place is most penuriously emptie of all other good outsides.

a1668 W. Davenant Fair Favorite ii. i. 95 in Wks. (1673) It might be said, Thou but penuriously Dost feed that Monarch, whom thou ought'st to feast.

1703 M. Chudleigh Song of Three Children xv, in Poems Several Occasions 12 And where both Hills and Vales are ever hid with Snow. Nature to them penuriously does give; They on a scant Allowance live.

1786 W. Gilpin Lakes Cumberland (1808) II. xxix. 228 A river, considerable in its dimensions; tho penuriously supplied with water.

1801 B. Thompson tr. A. von Kotzebue Indian Exiles iii. 63 How much, therefore, do you think necessary to enable you to live with my daughter neither in poverty nor affluence, neither penuriously nor prodigally?

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. xviii. 447 Elizabeth..shrank penuriously from the expenses of war.

1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 269 Everything seemed to be out together,—all the things crowded into one month which in England are spread penuriously over six.

1998 Detroit News (Nexis) 15 Aug. d32 Some authors like to reel in readers slowly, hooking them with tasty morsels penuriously parceled out.