{16} This appears to have been a favourite remark of Mr. Skimpole's. It will be noticed that, quite without intending it, Mr. Skimpole was the founder of our New Cyrenaic School.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
Perhaps it is really the beautiful, gentle, oppressed Clifford who haunts one's memory most, a kind of tragic and thwarted Harold Skimpole. "How pleasant, how delightful," he murmured, but not as if addressing any one. "Will it last? How balmy the atmosphere through that open window! An open window! How beautiful that play of sunshine. Those flowers, how very fragrant! That young girl's face, how cheerful, how blooming.英文原著 · 《Adventures among Books》
LETTER: From Harold Skimpole, Esq., to the Rev. Charles Honeyman, M.A.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
These letters tell their own tale of Genius and Virtue indigent and in chains. The eloquence of a Honeyman, the accomplishments of a Skimpole, lead only to Cursitor Street.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
I can sketch Coavins's, but I cannot alter it: I can set it to music, on Coavins's piano; but how melancholy are the jingling strains of that dilapidated instrument! At Jarndyce's house, when I am there, I am in possession of it: here Coavins's is in possession of me-- of the person of Harold Skimpole.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
"Go after glory, commerce, creeds," I cry; "only let Harold Skimpole live!" {16} The world pursues the jangling music; but in my ear sound the pipes of Pan, the voices of the river and the wood.英文原著 · 《Old Friends》
Hey, there are two things I never skimp on: condoms and candy.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Don't skimp on linens, don't compliment a teacher on her figure, and when it comes to my mom, never ask questions I don't want the answers to.美剧 · 《Modern Family》