"Hoarder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to sell a thousand a year; of the waste of the rest there is no account, except that he is confessed, by his biographer, to have been a bad economist. He seems to have deviated from the common practice; to have been a hoarder in his first years, and ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... is an offence and the food is commandeered and the hoarder punished. Several people have ...
— Women and War Work • Helen Fraser
... continued remorselessly, "they will be absolutely unprocurable" (he gave a start of recognition), "and you, having bought them, will sneak through life with the feelings of a food-hoarder, mingled with those of the man who slew the last Camberwell Beauty. I know the state of mind. But you need not distress yourself. These garments (I indicated them again) will only be unprocurable because ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 28, 1917 • Various |
