(1) Although Uncle Roger lives in a small ramshackle cottage that looks more like a rat-infested hovel, Colin believes the man is a miser , and is sure there's money that has been stashed away.

(2) Now, before you begin forming the impression that my beloved is a bad-tempered miser , I must put you straight.

(3) This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins.

(4) Like an old miser , however, he will give nothing away cheaply.

(5) It is a myth that living like a miser will see you end up with a stash of gold.

(6) A typical miser, he hid his money in the house in various places

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(8) The bureau pores over its data like a miser in his cave with his treasure.

(9) Once you start calculating how much fuel you are using and converting that into cash you will be halfway to becoming a fuel miser .

(10) Instead, I shall bask in all this glory and hope it brings me new found arrogance, snobbery and untold riches so I can retire to Pismo Beach and be a happy miser .

(11) He decides instead to take over an old miser 's nest egg.

(12) Critics and journalists have often portrayed him as a miser or as an old lecher.

(13) Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone.

(14) Come January, I'm freezing my credit card in a block of ice and becoming a miser .

(15) He's also a terrible miser , hoarding gold in his attic while his poor young wife - who has agreed to the arrangement only to protect her woefully indebted father - wants for the smallest pat of butter.

(16) This refers to a miser , perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured.

(17) How, without recording these acts of generosity, are such people to avoid the suspicion that they are misers ?

(18) Did I just give away that I come from a long line of misers ?

(19) Scotland is heading towards a savings crisis according to the latest research due to be published next week, which will call into question our traditional reputation as a nation of misers .

(20) Likewise, the misers at the Department of Finance will stifle their giggles when consumer agencies start advising us to cut back and save.