They learned to live a frugal existence, caring for the injured, endeavouring to ease the way for the dying.

Until 1947 he worked in forestry, It was a frugal existence, sometimes he was forced to live on nettle soup.

He led a remarkably frugal existence but his idiosyncrasies, which embraced the recycling of cigar butts, were from preference rather than parsimony.

Citizens eked out a frugal existence, for the luxury that had characterized the days of David and Solomon was no more.

Being without private wealth or income, she led a frugal existence.

He stays at an all-male hostel and maintains an almost frugal existence.

Alexis, the son of a distinguished Roman, fled his father's house on his wedding night and sustained a frugal and religious existence for 17 years.

Irrigators were in this way condemned to a frugal existence from the start.

He lived a frugal existence, his only source of income being a £20-a-week retainer he received from Island Records.

Still, despite her now frugal existence, she pressed the point.