scrimpings

The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.

The Wit of Porportuk 2010

The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.

The Wit of Porportuk 1910

He was gambling now in an elegant circle, thinking thus to compensate for his periodical scrimpings; but this resort was only making the remittances from America disappear with greater rapidity ....

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

She has her cares, her money-troubles, her debts, and her scrimpings, it is true, but they only make her independent, instead of reducing her to a dead level of despair.

Violets and Other Tales Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905

The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.

Lost Face Jack London 1896

She must do it soon, for Ben was twelve years old; but with all her strivings and scrimpings she could only manage to put bread into their mouths, and live from day to day.

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884