How To Use Meager In A Sentence

He wasn't a large man, and had never been the sporty type, so there were no golf clubs or baseball bats lying handily around, and the notion of overpowering a hulking burglar with the meagre physical means at his disposal was laughable. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Would I have reached university if my parents had needed to divide their meagre resources? Times, Sunday Times
Into this battered relic, she put her own meager possessions. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
I was being jerked around in my seat like a rag doll and in fear I reached for the dash to provide some form of meagre support.
In a language that invents descriptive terms with drunken abandon, all food writers suffer from the meagre cupboard of gastronomic terms. Times, Sunday Times

Its meager light provided the group its only means of illumination.
The present display provides meagre rations of all three. Times, Sunday Times
The crude items of every day use that were the few meager processions of the poor have become the prestige consumption of the affluent.
But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
The government offers meager help: a $130 annual payment to each widow, and a ration card for rice and oil.
The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
The isolated life, if at times adventurous, was always harsh and ultimately meagre of reward; it was essential to work as lumberman, teamster or boatman to help pay one's way. Insightful Economist At Work - The Austrian Economists
We are unjust people (having imaginary arguments strikes me as a bit lacking in proportion, not so mention meagerness of world), and so we are continually confused into failing to give unto each thing its due. Fairness and Justice « Unknowing
The farmers, to the fury of conservationists, say that sea eagles have been targeting their lambs and destroying their already meagre income. Times, Sunday Times
McCain started off his campaign stacking his long resume against what he characterized as the meager accomplishments of slick talking Ivy League upstart. Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
Tom is soon so weary and exhausted that he cannot even read his Bible, and he draws it out of his pocket one night and attempts to read it as his meager corn cake is cooking.
The next rains are not expected until April, by which time the meagerness of the harvest will be felt intensely by the people living in this region -- there will, once again, be hunger and starvation. David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation
• Inflation-adjusted after-tax incomes of Americans, up 2% since June 2009, haven't grown so meagerly in the early stages of any other post-World War II upturn. Weak Economic Rebound Suggests Statistical Parallels to 1980 and Other Anemic Upturns
And far less than the meagre payouts given to families of innocents butchered by merciless thugs like his son. The Sun
I don't think that the Inland Revenue would be overly troubled by the meagre income generated by my merchandising boutique.
Its greatest weakness is its meager budget and limited scope.
Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered installments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of something to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not. A Christmas Carol
Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire.
In the seventh edition (1720) I find to my great solace and comfort the entry, dog, 'a well-known creature, 'a somewhat meagre definition, improved into 'a quadruped well-known' by Nathaniel Bailey, whose dictionary, first published in octavo (1721), ran through a very large number of editions and became the standard authority until superseded by Johnson. On Dictionaries
they scratched a meager living
In the end, due to the meagerness of both our resources and our carpentry skills, we settled on a balance constructed of wood and a precariously balanced wire hanger.
This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
Otherwise, he would live, and that meant eating whatever his captors gave him in meager portions twice a day: fish heads, fish scales, leaves and rice. McDaniel, Norman A.
No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.
Yet the decorations were always meager, and their gifts chosen with his usual parsimony.
A very useful mare," as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named Coalition, was on this occasion confided to the Major's sole care and judgment. The Duke's Children
Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery. Westward Ho!
She was floundering in the deep pool, the water getting steadily deeper instead of shallower, her meagre supply of strength rapidly sapping as she struggled.
Railways' have only a meagre capacity for manufacturing wagons in their workshops.
She never spoke to anyone but would nod at Toussaint, who brought her shares of their meager food.
Our resources were too meagre, the demand too great. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
The president praised teachers for their meritorious service in educating students, but declined to touch on teachers' complaints about their meager wages and poor living conditions.
At the moment the boys exist on an unchanging and meagre diet of bread and milk for breakfast, potato and rice for lunch and thin vegetable soup for dinner.
Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid. Chapter 6
Indeed, even the general survey of the results of nuclear blackmail efforts against non-nuclear states by nuclear states provides meagre nourishment to the claim about their value as coercive political instruments.
And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity. Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
He wasn't the least bit perturbed by the meager audience, nor was he disturbed by the obvious pastoral snub.
These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect.
As with many of Paisley's characters he is a lovable rogue, thoughtless but not cruel, well-meaning but easily sidetracked, a boy whose threadbare background has spelt out a future of meagre options, many of them criminal.
Unfortunately, the ship crash lands on the planet, leaving its meager crew to search for a suitable home for the colonists (what's left of them) who wait it out in cryogenic freeze. REVIEW: Helix by Eric Brown
No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.
The parson was a little, meagre, black-looking man, with a grizzled wig that was too wide, and stood off from each ear; so that his head seemed to have shrunk away within it, like a dried filbert in its shell. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
After a winter of meager snowfalls, another drought is likely.
Humans with overt metapsychic powers were slowly increasing in number; however, in the majority of the population, the mindpowers were either meager to the point of nullity, or else latent, that is, nearly unusable, because of psychological barriers or other factors. The Golden Torc
real doll" and had cried on Christmas morning because the cheap little bit of dolldom which the mother had bought out of her meagre savings would not open or shut its eyes. Red-Robin
The meager funds provided by government for medical facilities in rural areas are squandered away by local petty officials.
I knocked on his meagre chest with my fore knuckle, and fetched forth a weak, gaspy cough; but he looked at me unflinchingly, much like a defiant sparrow held in the hand. Local Color
We have sent a donation out of our as yet meagre little store of funds.
Out came Dakota farmers who despaired at the meager profits they made growing wheat.
It was his wont to paste up long altar-pieces of Liana's charms, charms which her father had sought to enhance by means of delicate and almost meagre fare, by shutting up his orangery, whose window he seldom lifted off from this flower of a milder clime -- until she had become a tender creature of pastil-dust, which the gusts of fate and monsoons of climate could almost blow to pieces. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light.
Riders fought for the meagre rations inside the small café. Times, Sunday Times
The soon-to-expire skating emporium offers meager cultural resonance compared with the title establishment in another obvious source of inspiration, "The Last Picture Show. Variety.com
It seemed then a meager justification for manipulating my little brain and heart, yet an ache for wild beauty does command me.
Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
The food was meager, coarse bread and a single cup of water along with a small bowl of some kind of stew, long gone cold.
It's all very well to have a decent sex scene here and there, but when it's pretty much only that surrounded by an extremely meagre plot, I find my interest wanes rather quickly.
Thirteen-year-old Alan Dale, only son of a poor widow, scrapes a meagre living as a thief and cutpurse in and around the busy town of Nottingham. Archive 2009-12-01
Riders fought for the meagre rations inside the small café. Times, Sunday Times
So at the end of every day in the run up to a grant payment, I and a few others would pool whatever meagre amount we had into a pot, and play cards for it.
The nearer they brought him to a disembodied spirit by meagre diet, the holier should be his prayers in their behalf. The Cloister and the Hearth
Riders fought for the meagre rations inside the small café. Times, Sunday Times
And from what I've seen, you're pretty content with your meagre wardrobe.
The word dole is usually applied heartlessly to welfare mothers sustained in their dire poverty by meager government handouts, not to the top bankers now ripping off the taxpayers. Robert Scheer: No Tough Love for Wall Street
More energetic sports could prove hazardous for prisoners on meagre rations. The Times Literary Supplement
How can someone who once had so much live so meagerly? Dreamseller: The Calling
Incidentally, some years Great Basin bristlecone pines awaken in late June, discern (exactly how remains a mystery) that pending summer conditions will be inhospitable; drop back into dormancy drawing upon meager sugar reserves, enabling them to survive for another sleepy 12 months: Giving an entirely new meaning to Fastina lente or make haste slowly. Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
Most lived in rural areas, where they eked out meagre livings as cultivators.
Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share.
Congress to make me, and allowanced to its meagreness by men who traduced and vilified the loved wife of the great man who made them, and from whom they amassed great fortunes -- for Weed, and Behind the scenes,
True believers can even take encouragement from the meagreness of so much of the action in Coimbra.
Now they were trudging home again with their meagre earnings and a bag of rice. Times, Sunday Times
But with millions of people nearing the end of their working lives, low rates also portend meager returns on fixed-income investments. Living in a Low-Rate World
There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white - skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Media studies is a subject with little intellectual coherence and meagre relevance to the world of work. Times, Sunday Times
Profits of 177 million are a meagre return on its sales and the slowing economy will hit it hard. Times, Sunday Times
I'm filling up on bread sticks, hoping to s-p-r-e-a-d my meager salary as stringer for the Worcester News-Recorder to cover le dejeuner, which I'm sure will turn into le diner complete with escargot, pain au chocolat and a lycee technologique. Undine Spragg, International Cocktail Bitch
The house was so named by its owner, whose granddaughter left the interest of her meagre savings of £50 to be spent on giving coals to the poor.
Visitors to the temple used to worship the deity in the morning and the crowd for the evening ceremony would be meagre.
This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing. Times, Sunday Times
Long waiting lists, a meagre state health budget and inadequate hospital services prompted the three men to raise cash and build their own hospital on the southside of Dublin.
Although she was managing to get by on the meagre salary she drew tutoring primary-school children after school, it most likely wouldn't last.
He has taken one of the most bloody and most complex battles in the history of the British Empire to demonstrate the utter vincibility of a super-power by meagre, but determined, forces.
Only two blogs out of 9 are from the left, 3, Daily Kos and 10, Talking points though adding "searchless" Eschaton would give 3 out of 10, still surprisingly meager in the Internet wars. The view from the left and the right
It was then that he realized she was sponging off his meager salary.
the trunk held all her meager treasures
Provided that our virtue be high and our name untarnished, then our office may be low and our income meagre, it is not the fault of our talents, and we should not feel oppressed by it. Lunheng
At another level, people who once made a meagre living from tiny businesses have been warned by those who took them over in the chaos following the intense period of violence against any attempt to reclaim their handcarts or petty shops.
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He wiped moisture from his muzzle and ducked back under the meagre cover his crude lean-to offered.
In the end, the sales of stereographs were meager, and the vast majority of people who saw O'Sullivan's photographs from the survey saw them at public expositions, often as full-plate prints rather than stereographs.
Old age came to our grandfathers quite suddenly at the end of active working lives on meagre rations. Times, Sunday Times
Across the allied position small parties of men began to make fires on which to cook their meagre ration. Man of Honour
With meagre funds, they could not afford the luxurious hotel accommodation Marconi enjoyed. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.
He would gorge on Thai food after leaving his secret subterranean family to starve on meagre rations. The Sun
He planted only one muid of wheat that year, his first attempt at arable agriculture after moving to Kruismansrivier. 38 With few stock of his own to tend and limited work to do in his own field, Gerrit might have been inclined to help a neighbor, especially if the return on that labor could help him augment the meager productivity of his own farm. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
The soldier was exhausted, and the meager food failed to sate his gnawing hunger, but he wasn't alone or afraid any longer.
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
This is particularly true when the opportunities for self-advancement are relatively meager, and one's individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for.
The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
It was meagerly decorated by the art department, but it flourished.
Breton seaweed workers - like those burning kelp in the Scottish islands - were very poor, supplementing their meagre incomes with fishing, farming and sometimes wrecking.
Your talent, meager though it is, would probably have alerted your sleeping mind to any attempt at forcible entry. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
He stood under the meagre bulb in the odd-shaped room with its barred window.
Compared with the blockbusting novelists of our age, this was a meagre output.
Although some iron, steel, boilerplate, and machinery was smuggled through the blockade, the flow was meager and uncertain.
The hours are long, the pay meagre. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, while one version puts her to work at a loom in a factory, and has her living in a garret, another has her earning a meagre crust as a teacher in London.
I've worked and studied hard for my success, and know what's it's like to live on meagre funds.
The profligate US government, it was said, could not finance its deficits from the meager savings of its people, thereby necessitating borrowing from abroad.
Being dumped by Honda left the Northamptonshire-based squad celebrating a meagre Christmas, so even finding the finances to make it to round one was an achievement.
He has white hair and a black suit and a watch chain across his meagre belly.
As art criticism, it has the merit of making a judgement, though description and interpretation may be meagre.
The hours are long, the pay meagre. Times, Sunday Times
Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
The big winner (or big loser, depending on your perspective) wins $50,000, a suitably meagre sum for a Canadian game show.
All the men lost weight on a diet of meager amounts of bread with rancid butter and turnip soup that often featured chunks of pigskin - with hair still attached - or a pig's eye.
Whether an analyst points to the 27.6 percent of first-choice votes or the 28.4 percent of the total vote, the meagerness of his plurality is obvious.
So the refugees are having to swap some of their meager food ration for other vital supplies that they are not given.
The association with back-breaking labor in ungodly heat and humidity for meager wages or bare-existence trade is how field workers from 1840s to 1970s felt. High Cotton (copy)
‘Dollar a day, dime a dance’ was the slogan used to characterize the mentality of these sharp-dressing ladykillers who squandered their meager earnings on recreation.
The big winner (or big loser, depending on your perspective) wins $50,000, a suitably meagre sum for a Canadian game show.
I am sure that any good-sized "shanghai" eats more every day than the meager half loaf that we had to maintain life upon. Andersonville — Volume 3
The other, tall, meagre, with long grizzled hair and a wild unsettled look about the eyes, was a man of science; had written works well esteemed upon mathematics and electricity, also against the existence of any other creative power than that which he called "nebulosity," and defined to be the combination of heat and moisture. The Parisians — Volume 05
The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw hat, and moccasins of raw-hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains. Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
The men sallow, meagre, and wearing those trousers which, cut very wide and flappy at the ankles, make them the dowdiest men in the world. Half Portions
This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing. Times, Sunday Times
The worst affected households will lose 5,300 next year alone, from an income that is already meagre. Times, Sunday Times
Into this battered relic, she put her own meager possessions. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
To increase the meagre 15 kg baggage allowance to 20 kg costs an extra 15.
This includes not just creditors but, above all, the little man who is forced to keep his meager savings in the form of cash, i.e., paper money open to plunder by the prodigal which is the consortium of the banks and the government.
She had moreover a great fondness for intervals of solitude, which since her arrival in England had been but meagrely met. The Portrait of a Lady
There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white-skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
the shining of shoes provided a meager living
For many men, playing the stockmarket is a profitable adjunct to supplement otherwise meagre incomes from the sale of surplus rice, coffee, cloves and vegetables.
He began to drink heavily, left London in 1914, and spent the rest of his life roaming around Ireland, living off meagre earnings from hastily scribbled articles and stories.
Shadows offered only meagre protection, but it was protection I was thankful for as I listened to her footsteps come down the hall toward me, the steps slow and measured.
The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise.
They saw hundreds of millions of lives cramped and crippled, meagrely lived, sacrificed untimely, and they could not see any primary necessity for this blighting and starvation of human life. The Shape of Things to Come
The farmers, to the fury of conservationists, say that sea eagles have been targeting their lambs and destroying their already meagre income. Times, Sunday Times
The trio had eked out a meager living through acts of charity, upholding their righteous values, even in a foreign land.
Trade unions, however, are generally not recognised, and most of them spend a good deal of their time and energy trying to get their meagre wages and overtime paid on time.
He is quite content as the job satisfaction eclipses the meagreness of income.
It's not that he's miscast, or wrong for the film, but his thespian power transcends the material, making the meager work of others around him stand out even more.
Since being rescued from the trolls in Jotunheim, Jack's sister Lucy has seemed to cling more and more stubbornly to the fantasy that she's a princess removed from her parents and put upon by life in a meager village hut. The WritingYA Weblog: Bard Trumps Fairyland
I'm filling up on bread sticks, hoping to s-p-r-e-a-d my meager salary as stringer for the Worcester News-Recorder to cover le dejeuner, which I'm sure will turn into le diner complete with escargot, pain au chocolat and a lycee technologique. Undine Spragg, International Cocktail Bitch
Meager profit company operating as a goal, to high-quality, low price products to pursue customer satisfaction for business purposes.
It is a meagre return when set against what it loses. Times, Sunday Times
Its greatest weakness is its meager budget and limited scope.
Mustering my meagre knowledge of the 8th arrondissement, I remember a museum on the Boulevard Haussman that had a rather good café-restaurant attached.
He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
Tufts of balding, meager dun hair sprouted out from the man's scalp in every possible direction like a windblown bush, followed by wide, tangled eyebrows and small, beady, madly darting eyes which bulged from within a round, bloated face.
Operating on a more meagre budget, though, I can thoroughly recommend the day ticket, which can offer tremendous sport with fresh-run springers throughout the months of May and June.
The captain's family would sleep in the quarters situated in the butty boat, a cabin of meagre proportions which makes today's touring caravans look vast.
She would accept no more than the meagerest allowance, and went down into the Latin Quarter on her own, batching with two other American girls. CHAPTER XVIII
On a good day they may earn $3, which just supports a meagre existence in diseased, malarial slums. Archive 2008-09-01
The institutions' motivation is obvious: they are thinking about what you'll be earning in ten years time, rather than the meagre sums many students earn now.
Her people had to carry water from a meagre source three ridges away.
Even healthy Bactrian camels are meager procreators because the birth of a single camel requires a 14-month gestation period.
Republicans on both committees complained about the speed at which the bills are being pushed through the legislature, the lack of hearings on the proposals and what they called the meager information about what they would actually cost per job created. Govhealthit_daily
The Libya campaign also exposed the meagerness of European weapon stockpiles. The Lesson of Libya
Unable to supplement their meager rations via hoarding or purchases on the public black markets, inmates soon deteriorated.
More energetic sports could prove hazardous for prisoners on meagre rations. The Times Literary Supplement
My lovely wife has been lording it over me ever since, unimpressed with the meager success I've had with prior awards.
Long waiting lists, a meagre state health budget and inadequate hospital services prompted the three men to raise cash and build their own hospital on the southside of Dublin.
And far less than the meagre payouts given to families of innocents butchered by merciless thugs like his son. The Sun
Gusting breezes stiffened and rustled the heavy leaf canopies offering a meager shade from the summer sun.
A straggling line of women and children on the move with their meager possessions atop their heads.
She totes around a spell book and spends her meagre allowance on bells and mirrors to help her spells and charms.
Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire.
They were a considerable drain on my meagre resources. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
We had no idea who she was, and only her meager profile gave proof that she was in fact female beneath the armor.
They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
I am receiving a meagre state pension: the princely sum of 18 pence a week.
Wonderbaby’s meagre coif is entirely pixie, except for the long flip of fringe that has been dangling over her eyes for some weeks now. Beware Bad Mothers Bearing Scissors | Her Bad Mother
The meagre supplies she had brought had not lasted long with her ravenous hunger.
The institutions' motivation is obvious: they are thinking about what you'll be earning in ten years time, rather than the meagre sums many students earn now.
The worst affected households will lose 5,300 next year alone, from an income that is already meagre. Times, Sunday Times
But affability, like intelligence, can mask a mean and meager spirit as well as the absence of a sense of proportion.
Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share.
Out of their meagre wage of £3 a week they had to buy their working clothes and their board and lodging in a hostel or with a family.
The sidewalk is narrow and the pedestrian is buffeted on one side by traffic, on the other by the proximity of the plunge and the meagre hip-height railing.
To this the dean assented, but alleged that contests on such a subject would be unseemly; to which rejoined a meagre little doctor, one of the cathedral prebendaries, that the contest must be all on the side of Mr. Slope if every prebendary were always there ready to take his own place in the pulpit. Barchester Towers
The refugees queued up for their meagre rations of soup.
The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
These meagre details conceal the fluffiest of adolescent rivalries. Times, Sunday Times
In North Africa, meager amounts of air cover were parceled out to each ground commander.
It was meagerly furnished, but comfortable and cozy.
‘A very useful mare,’ as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named The Duke's Children
The most likely scenario would then be that the woman would be thrown out the house, left to her meager or nil resources to file claims for maintenance, alimony or custody of her children.
It's difficult not to have a defeatist attitude if the work one does in trying to maintain a space with meagre financial means and major bureaucratic procedure is constantly glossed over.
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He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
The problem is that "you can make the meager evidence from the ethnohistorical record tell you anything you want," he says. 1491
I'd love to subscribe, but it costs nearly a thousand bucks with our meagre currency!
Three days passed, and the water skins were quite empty, the meager provisions long finished.
She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
Media studies is a subject with little intellectual coherence and meagre relevance to the world of work. Times, Sunday Times
I saw it as a never-ending drain on our meagre stock of rope and timber.
One by one, like a flight of swallows, our more meagrely sparred and canvassed yachts went by, leaving them wallowing and dead and shortening down in what they called a gale but which we called a dandy sailing breeze. A Collection of Stories
It is a meagre return when set against what it loses. Times, Sunday Times
Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
A staggering 71% of workers in the industry don't even have access to a pension at work and many will be reliant on a meagre state pension to provide their retirement income.
But this term it has been a different story, with his tally so far a meagre eight and his team on the slide. The Sun
They lived on meagre incomes, waiting for a recall that might never come, reminiscing vinously about the glories of the past, and helping pave the way for a Napoleonic revival.
No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.
He remained there for the remaining 23 years of his life, refusing to handle money and surviving on the most meagre diet. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
HETTY and Dinah both slept in the second story, in rooms adjoining each other, meagrely furnished rooms, with no blinds to shut out the light, which was now beginning to gather new strength from the rising of the moon — more than enough strength to enable Hetty to move about and undress with perfect comfort. Adam Bede
The Sac a commis is the growth of high dry situations, and invariably in a piney country or on it's borders. it is generally found in the open piney woodland as on the Western side of the Rocky mountain but in this neighbourhood we find it only in the praries or on their borders in the more open wood lands; a very rich soil is not absolutely necessary, as a meager one frequently produces it abundantly. the natives on this side of the Rockey mountains who can procure this berry invariably use it; to me it is a very tasteless and insippid fruit. this shrub is an evergreen, the leaves retain their virdure most perfectly through the winter even in the most rigid climate as on lake The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
For five days he toiled on at "Overdue," going nowhere, seeing nobody, and eating meagrely. Chapter 40
She seemed so meagre and weak, like her body had lost that glow.
Although its taste is barely acceptable these meager rations were all the station dared supply.
The ideal candidate should have politics that are meagerly informed but deeply held. HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 25TH, 2010
Another ambition was to categorise the meagre extant material held in archives.
He said such a deal makes sense as a way for Barclays to get its meager return on equity up to its 13% target and reduce its reliance on investment-banking profits, "but we also feel that a caja acquisition will probably increase yet again Barclays' risk perception amongst investors. Barclays' Spain Ambitions Raise Concerns
The first summer lapsed away; and Joanna meagrely maintained herself by the shop, which now consisted of little more than a window and a counter. Life's Little Ironies
He was a small, aged man, very thin and meagre in aspect — so meagre as to conceal in part, by the general tenuity of his aspect, the shortness of his stature. Nina Balatka
My mother did rubber latex tapping for a meagre wage to feed us.
The two men and the woman grouped about the fire and began their meager meal.
Some marriages may be strained by the realisation of just how meagre their retirement is likely to be. Times, Sunday Times
He gets fifty thousand pounds a year while I get a meagre twenty!
Your premise is flawed from the get-go, and your meager credibility, while somewhat bolstered by your honesty in admitting your belief that conservatives are incapable of committing treason, was at the same time decimated by the profound stupidity of the claim. Think Progress » CNN poll: 47 percent of Americans want to repeal health care reform.
these voices are meagerly represented at the conference
Railway workers prayed silently before their meagre meal, coaxed from the heat of a charcoal brazier.
Generations of very clever Foreign Office eminences have devoted their meagre resources to just one futile aim - punching above our weight on the world stage.
The daily food ration from the meagre stocks was about half a spoonful of tuna or salmon. Chile miners: Rescued foreman Luis Urzúa's first interview
Despite meagre attempts to beautify the grounds with flowers and shrubs, there was no denying that this was a grim and cheerless place.
This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing. Times, Sunday Times
Otherwise, the only flaw is the lack of illustrations: ten seems a little meagre in a book such as this. The Times Literary Supplement
This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing. Times, Sunday Times
Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.
In a household where one of the parents was a newly graduated professor of linguistics and the other an artist, income was usually rather meagre and spasmodic in nature.
There's a gratinated brandade whose proportion of salt cod to potato was perhaps too meagre but it was delicious nonetheless; there's steak with a smothering of foie gras and gratin dauphinois.
The prisoners existed on a meagre diet of rice and fish.
Saddest of all, workers will continue to brave health and physical threats only to earn a meager amount of money to buy sustenance for their families.
Every piece of work which is not as good as you can make it, which you have palmed off imperfect, meagrely thought, niggardly in execution, upon mankind who is your paymaster on parole and in a sense your pupil, every hasty or slovenly or untrue performance, should rise up against you in the court of your own heart and condemn you for a thief. Lay Morals
But the stolid tree -- a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life -- afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead. My Tropic Isle
He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
The general impression one gets is that Morse accepts the persistent stereotype of the solitary miner scratching out a meager existence largely on his own.
Here we have masses of lower income people transferring their meager wealth via outrageous interest rates to unscrupulous moneylenders.
Although Johanna is aware of the meagerness of Georgia's allowance, she feels that the recent precipitous expansion of the neighborhood doll-housing market, coupled with the effects of informational asymmetries—namely, that Georgia can't really add yet—are enough to justify the risk. Report on the Recent Piggybanking Crisis
The revolutionary intelligentsia were to assume an importance out of all proportion to their meagre numbers.
Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming.
Profits of 177 million are a meagre return on its sales and the slowing economy will hit it hard. Times, Sunday Times
But its solo repertoire is meagre, compared with the violin or piano. Times, Sunday Times
He's introduced a bill that would increase the State compensation for the wrongfully convicted to a still-meager $85,000.00 per year plus any child support arrearage and would bar anyone who accepts the money from bringing a civil rights case. Locke Bowman: The Price of Injustice: Wrongfully Convicted Deserve Full Compensation
Speaker Martin, who sought desperately to cover up the MPs 'expenses scandal, has just been' ennobled '; and Jacqui Smith, whose huge expenses quite dwarfed the meagre cost of her husband's porn movies, will soon add lustre to the red benches. OpenDemocracy
She had a slim and meager body, her neck was long, and her cheekbones were easily distinguished.
Trouble is, their meagre purses / pensions, haven't grown in proportion.
So far during this recovery, business has invested furiously in the emerging markets and meagerly in America. Finding a strategy for growth
The husband's lips were curled slightly, forming a meager smile; the wife was wearing no smile at all.
By different standards, however, even those early sums of 1 1/2 and 8 scudi were by no means meager.
Now they were trudging home again with their meagre earnings and a bag of rice. Times, Sunday Times
The meagerness of the UK's benefits was never policy.
The gutters were choked with inedible refuse: sticks, feathers, rags, skeletons of animals that had been boiled for their meager flesh.
Everything you consume is carefully undecorated and deliberately meagre. Times, Sunday Times
These situations reveal the meagerness of my character. VII
He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
Their meager ark is a decrepit shopping cart filled with muddy blankets and morsels they share amongst themselves and rarely with strangers. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
He remained there for the remaining 23 years of his life, refusing to handle money and surviving on the most meagre diet. COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
Their meagre physical experiences, plus their meagre intellectual experiences, made a negative sum so vast that it overbalanced their wholesome morality and healthful sports. Chapter 18
Grandma and grandpa passed away the meager heritage and left me.
My body is telling me I will burn other substrates before I'll burn fat and just the most meagre consumption of carbohydrate will switch off that ketotic response.
As art criticism, it has the merit of making a judgement, though description and interpretation may be meagre.
Roosevelt later saw poverty's spreading scourge, "millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster (hung) over them day by day .... one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished. Systemic Failure: Capitalism "Lays an Egg"
They are poor farmers who could never easily afford expensive chemicals used in intensive farming, going organic to boost their meagre incomes.
While, on the one hand, there were no extra liberty days, no delicacies added to the meagre forecastle fare, nor grog or hot coffee on double watches, on the other hand the crew were not chronically crippled by the continual play of knuckle-dusters and belaying pins. A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
No other great novelist has had to cope with such meagre opportunities for self-fulfilment. Times, Sunday Times
Hunger hurt her, and hurt her meagre breasts that should have been full for the seven feeble and mewing little ones, replicas of her save that their eyes were not yet open and that they were grotesquely unsteady on their soft, young legs. CHAPTER XX
Positive pieces gonged a meager 5% and very positive a poor 1%. Venezuela's Media Minister: End tensions only through direct negotiations with USA
He anticipated meagre results from a literary propaganda among the broad Jewish masses, in which the mere reading of such "licentious" books was considered a criminal offence. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894)
When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.
He was a comical sight, striving to fan into flame the cold ashes of his youth, to resurrect his strength dead and gone through the oozing of the years -- making woful faces in place of the ferocious ones he intended, grinding his worn teeth together, beating his meagre chest with feeble fists. CHAPTER XII
A meagre, whitish soil, thirsty and unrecuperative, afforded grudging sustenance to a puny, grotesque growth of blackjack and chincapin, even the renovating pine -- the badge of the State -- being in many places a rarity. "The Free Negroes of North Carolina"
I searched in vain for a patch of sundews, the little carnivorous plants that live in just this kind of environment, so I could show off my meagre botanical knowledge.
They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
The daily routine started early in the morning with ablutions followed by a meagre breakfast at eight o'clock then back in the cell until they were served a plateful of dinner at about four o'clock.
1 Some may quibble with our use of the word "meager" here to refer to a correlation of .30. Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.: Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset
On Tuesday evening a telegraphic despatch was published, but, owing to the meagreness of its contents, did not remove the apprehensions previously existing.
Connolly, an incumbent, career politician with fingers in pies all across Fairfax and Northern Virginia, managed to raise a meager $417,750. Fimian destroys Connolly in 3rd quarter fundraising in VA-11
The nomination was greeted warmly by most on the political left, though a few have caterwauled that Ms. Kagan might be a "stealth" moderate because she lacks judicial experience and has a meager paper trail. Elena Obama
The velocity, the sheer power and the technology of the rocket perhaps makes all the more pitiful our meagre destiny.
The hopeless, huddled attitude of tramps in doorways; the flinching gait of barefoot children on the icy pavement; the sheen of the rainy streets towards afternoon; the meagreanatomy of the poor defined by the clinging of wet garments; the high canorous note of the Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
The only other fish to be weighed in were 5 herring, one tarwhine and a few whiting, pretty meager pickings.
Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light.
However, the commissioners admitted such compulsion was rarely realistic, considering the meagreness of most women's wages.
Out of their meagre wage of £3 a week they had to buy their working clothes and their board and lodging in a hostel or with a family.
Be not in haste," Canim cautioned her, as she began to strap the meagre camp outfit to her pack. LI-WAN, THE FAIR
Miss Blau's temperament is not adapted to the type of regimentation which occurs nowadays when only intense cooperations make it possible to obtain meager results from a tremendously expensive piece of apparatus. 23 Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Everywhere there were people –- men working in the ankle-deep mud of the irrigated fields; a group of women sitting in a circle on a huge cloth, doing some kind of handwork I couldn’t quite see; children chasing each other down the long narrow mounds that divided the rectangular plots, or shooing cows from one meager pasture to another with long switches. Firedoglake » Good Governance Is More Than CYA…
Vitamins supplemented his meager diet
By mischance the second not was omitted and gave the impression that the inhabitants of Pakistan were delighted with their meagre rations.
Shadows offered only meagre protection, but it was protection I was thankful for as I listened to her footsteps come down the hall toward me, the steps slow and measured.
In contrast to the Jain meagre population of believers, have built numerous grandiose Jain temples that surpass in splendor and expense representing evidence of remarkable affluency of Jains. WHY PRODUCING JAIN ENLIGHTENMENT FOR GLOBAL WEB TV ?
All the same he would queue up with the other drones for hours to receive his meagre earnings.
And from what I've seen, you're pretty content with your meagre wardrobe.
Six goals is a meagre return from 40 caps. Times, Sunday Times
It invigorates the stomach for the digestion of poor, meagre diet, not easily alliable to the human constitution. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
Forget the tiny sprig strategically placed on a lemon sole or the meagre pinch of mint in a pan of potatoes.
Here over greens and cold water the father sighed, the mother wept apart, the clerk eyed biliously the meagre fare. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
This has ranged from a weekly average of just 3.7 complaints in Crook to an even more meagre 2.3 in Chester-le-Street.
But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs.
They would have the child with his meagre endowment of intellect determine for himself, "experimentally", which instincts to suppress and which to cultivate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
I still hated the fame and the meager prestige that the title of the one fabled to bring down the government had given me, but I was the more uncomfortable by the fact that I knew that I wasn't the one by myself.
How convincing is anthropologist Dean R. Snows statement, "you can make the meager evidence from the ethnohistorical record tell you anything you want" [p. 5]? 1491 by Charles C Mann: Questions
Through the heat of this long ride, we felt our total lack of water and the meagreness of our supply of food.
Our resources were too meagre, the demand too great. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
To supplement his meagre earnings as a writer, Orwell bought a bacon-slicer and reopened the shop, selling 30 shillings worth a week of goods and making enough profit to cover his rent. At the gates of Animal Farm
The humble earthenware teapot rests on the red lacquered side-table which was listed after her death in the meagre inventory of Marguerite's possessions.
His addiction for alcohol is a draft on his meager income.
Old age came to our grandfathers quite suddenly at the end of active working lives on meagre rations. Times, Sunday Times
We seek validation of our experience and moral philosophy, but virtually meager acknowledgement is posted by other bloggers. WWJ(or M or C or B or H or P or S)D?
Which traditional mat weaver will substitute the billhook and knife, especially when even the National Bamboo Mission puts his average daily income at a meagre Rs.30 a day?
Or is it a meager, yet expressive hint that the forgiveness of sins is a foretaste of eternal life?
Without revenue, except for meager voluntary state requisitions, Congress could not even pay the interest on its outstanding debt.
For doing all such activities and acting as an important functionary for the government, the monthly wages being paid to him are too meager to be taken into consideration.
Militiamen dug in their heels behind meager breastworks and awaited the arrival of their adversaries.
Even the most stiff nominal tax rate would turn out to be a very meager tax burden for landowners.
There's also a dish of Kobe beef, which was bland, meagerly portioned, and not worth the whopping price tag of $56.
They handed them out in meager portions, a dollar at a time if you were lucky, so each quarter had to last. Requiem For A Dream
I lived meagerly on my savings and supported my son and myself with no child support.
Data on the social origins of the hierarchy appointed between Peter's death and Catherine the Great's enthronement in 1762 are meager.
My relatively meager jazz collection is full of Kind Of Blue, Blue Train and their soundalikes - nice, relaxing, limited-challenge (but groundbreaking in its way) jazz from the 1950s.
In their newly decorated dining room, alive with rich, warm reds, the grand repast consisted of three meager chops.
He'd have to eat a lot of antivaccinationist brains to get any nourishment whatsoever, so meager is the gruel there. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Food and shelter are the greatest problems, and many children have lost families or work at menial tasks to provide meager, subsistence-level support.
It thought of the insects and vermin that it had fed on, the most meager of sustenance to maintain its life, but enough to eventually give it the strength to free it self.
I admit freely, that I don't choose to live in meager circumstances, and indeed many of my neighbors have a great deal more than I do economically, and educations that surpass my mere 4 years of University training, which is why they have no problem purchasing the $200.000.00 homes in my neighborhood and purchasing all the anemities that go with this lifestyle. What brought you to live in Mexico
He could not support his family on his meager salary.
When pressed by sometimes testy Congressmen about the meagerness of Soviet disclosures, he replied blandly, "We have been very forthcoming."
Into this battered relic, she put her own meager possessions. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
The bigger problem is that Social Security's payout is so meager, which is problematic since it has been thrust into this new role as a de facto national retirement plan. Steven Hill: Don't cut Social Security, DOUBLE it
And another thing they learned was that it was easier for one who has gorged at the flesh-pots to content himself with the meagerness of a crust, than for one who has known only the crust. Chapter XXV
Shockingly, Ripley's return to LV-426 comes with a plethora of highly trained marines by her side — yet it's this meagerly trained warehouse worker that manages to outlive the rest and take out Aliens like the best. Zoe Saldana’s ‘Avatar’ Role Is Simply The Latest Of James Cameron’s Powerful Leading Ladies » MTV Movies Blog
It only gives them one more mouth to feed and one more drain on their meager resources.
As I know as a long term backpacker this doesn't come for free nor can it be supplied by a rice farmer's meager wage. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
His semiarboreal habits took him often into the domains of the great and lesser apes, and from this contact had arisen what might best be termed an armed truce, for they alone of all the other inhabitants of the earth had spoken languages, both meager it is true, yet sufficient to their primitive wants, and as both languages had been born of the same needs to deal with identical conditions there were many words and phrases identical to both. The Eternal Savage
He writes, ‘Wonder Boys brought in a meager $18.7 million earlier this year - leaving many in the media scratching their pates.’
Its meager light provided the group its only means of illumination.
While they wait for the train, the prisoners eat their meager ration of bread.
While they wait for the train, the prisoners eat their meager ration of bread.
Incidentally, some years Great Basin bristlecone pines awaken in late June, discern (exactly how remains a mystery) that pending summer conditions will be inhospitable; drop back into dormancy drawing upon meager sugar reserves, enabling them to survive for another sleepy 12 months: Giving an entirely new meaning to Fastina lente or make haste slowly. Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Ancient Pines by Reducing our Global Footprints
Constantly on the move in pursuit of the migratory herds, they carried on their backs their few meager possessions.
And making homes affordable is vital for most Americans who need home equity to supplement their meager 401 (k) balances. Jane White: Rethinking Reaganomics: Why We Need Warren and Bill to Pay More Taxes
He lives very meagerly and asks no buddy for help, they don't care.
One patient just recently began collecting social security and was complaining about the meagerness of her payments.
His meager allotment of gas had to be saved for emergencies.
With just some meager splotches of blue peeking through billowy cumulus clouds, I'm not sure I'd call this photo "colorful," yet it's difficult not to be struck by the multihued white picket fence, a study of light and shadow optimistically evocative, says Ms. Lyden, of "The American Dream. Trained Toward the Heavens
She pursued that dream, supplementing her meager dancer's pay with work as a runway model.
While they wait for the train, the prisoners eat their meager ration of bread.
However, this peace of mind was shattered an hour or so later when I walked past the child's room and saw the reality horror-show of my exhausted, passed-out wife snoring loudly while attached to this milking apparatus as it huffed and sucked meager spurts of life's elixir into two little half-filled plastic bottles. Len Filppu: Parental Survival Tip # 1: Develop Mirth at Birth
In practice, beneficiary households have to pool their meager grants in order to buy a farm from a willing seller.
The tragedy of love is not (what it is thought to be) the unreciprocated love, but the meagerly returned love. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Their meager paychecks didn't go very far, but the stores didn't have many products to sell anyway.
Isabella retched up the meager contents of her stomach onto the ground and returned to the camp.
As principal of its primary school, he knew its life intimately, and was depressed by its meagerness.
If one adopts (b), and something like a Sellarsian or Davidsonian distinction between sensation and thought, putting phenomenal character exclusively on the ˜sensation™ side, and intentionality exclusively on the ˜thought™ side of this divide, the place of consciousness in a philosophical account of knowledge will likely be meager ” at most phenomenal character will be a causal condition, without a role to play in the warrant or justification of claims to knowledge. Consciousness and Intentionality
Originally intended to be a microcosm of the citizen body, juries by Socrates 'time were manned by elderly, disabled, and poor volunteers who needed the meager three-obol pay. Socrates
Charred remains of the boat, a burned octant, and a few unexploded cartridges were all that remained of the meager outfit upon which they depended to take them to the mouth of the river, a distance of over 250 miles. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
Lastly, because natural gas is nonrenewable, reliance on it as a fuel offers meager benefits for long-term energy security.
They are free of the meagerness and nasty tannins that can beset lackluster Bordeaux years. A Refreshing Bordeaux
At the meager age of thirteen, Shelby looked every bit the shy skinny uncoordinated girl she really was.
The profligate US government, it was said, could not finance its deficits from the meager savings of its people, thereby necessitating borrowing from abroad.
Even the meager construction projects fell through because of the the government foot-dragging and incompetence.
It growled at him and latched its teeth onto the windshield, the very tips of its fangs breaching the meager shield and poking holes in the glass.
He had a meager salary, a roommate who he liked to order pizza with, and—worst of all—he glowed with the irritating exuberance of unjaded youth. Live and Let Love
His meager wage is not enough to support their five children.

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