He is the most reckless of spend-thrifts, we know, and he probably indulges in even less respectable excitement.
"Brewster's Millions"
George Barr McCutcheon
On inquiring for the bank in which I had invested the savings of my former voyage, I found that it had failed, and that I was as poor as when I began the world, with this difference, that I had a profession, and had bought a large amount of experience with the money I had squandered-which is not always the case with spend-thrifts.
"Old Jack"
W.H.G. Kingston
All who are greedy and spend-thrifts, seek to make a prey of the property of Catholics.
"An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800"
Mary Frances Cusack