How To Use Meagre In A Sentence
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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
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Would I have reached university if my parents had needed to divide their meagre resources?
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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In a language that invents descriptive terms with drunken abandon, all food writers suffer from the meagre cupboard of gastronomic terms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The present display provides meagre rations of all three.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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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
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And far less than the meagre payouts given to families of innocents butchered by merciless thugs like his son.
The Sun
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I don't think that the Inland Revenue would be overly troubled by the meagre income generated by my merchandising boutique.
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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
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Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire.
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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
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This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
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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
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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.
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Railways' have only a meagre capacity for manufacturing wagons in their workshops.
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Our resources were too meagre, the demand too great.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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We have sent a donation out of our as yet meagre little store of funds.
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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
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Riders fought for the meagre rations inside the small café.
Times, Sunday Times
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Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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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.
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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
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Riders fought for the meagre rations inside the small café.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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
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Riders fought for the meagre rations inside the small café.
Times, Sunday Times
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And from what I've seen, you're pretty content with your meagre wardrobe.
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More energetic sports could prove hazardous for prisoners on meagre rations.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Most lived in rural areas, where they eked out meagre livings as cultivators.
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Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share.
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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,
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True believers can even take encouragement from the meagreness of so much of the action in Coimbra.
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Now they were trudging home again with their meagre earnings and a bag of rice.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Media studies is a subject with little intellectual coherence and meagre relevance to the world of work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Profits of 177 million are a meagre return on its sales and the slowing economy will hit it hard.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Visitors to the temple used to worship the deity in the morning and the crowd for the evening ceremony would be meagre.
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This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Old age came to our grandfathers quite suddenly at the end of active working lives on meagre rations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Across the allied position small parties of men began to make fires on which to cook their meagre ration.
Man of Honour
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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
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In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.
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He would gorge on Thai food after leaving his secret subterranean family to starve on meagre rations.
The Sun
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The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.
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Breton seaweed workers - like those burning kelp in the Scottish islands - were very poor, supplementing their meagre incomes with fishing, farming and sometimes wrecking.
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He stood under the meagre bulb in the odd-shaped room with its barred window.
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Compared with the blockbusting novelists of our age, this was a meagre output.
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The hours are long, the pay meagre.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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I've worked and studied hard for my success, and know what's it's like to live on meagre funds.
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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.
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He has white hair and a black suit and a watch chain across his meagre belly.
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As art criticism, it has the merit of making a judgement, though description and interpretation may be meagre.
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The hours are long, the pay meagre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Madame, a birdlike, blue-rinsed woman in her sixties, was arranging a meagre collection of books on folding shelves.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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The big winner (or big loser, depending on your perspective) wins $50,000, a suitably meagre sum for a Canadian game show.
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The big winner (or big loser, depending on your perspective) wins $50,000, a suitably meagre sum for a Canadian game show.
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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
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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
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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
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This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The worst affected households will lose 5,300 next year alone, from an income that is already meagre.
Times, Sunday Times
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To increase the meagre 15 kg baggage allowance to 20 kg costs an extra 15.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The bank's staff were already angered by a meagre 3.1% pay rise.
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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
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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
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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.
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He is quite content as the job satisfaction eclipses the meagreness of income.
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It is a meagre return when set against what it loses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mustering my meagre knowledge of the 8th arrondissement, I remember a museum on the Boulevard Haussman that had a rather good café-restaurant attached.
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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.
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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.
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On a good day they may earn $3, which just supports a meagre existence in diseased, malarial slums.
Archive 2008-09-01
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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.
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Her people had to carry water from a meagre source three ridges away.
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More energetic sports could prove hazardous for prisoners on meagre rations.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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.
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And far less than the meagre payouts given to families of innocents butchered by merciless thugs like his son.
The Sun
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She totes around a spell book and spends her meagre allowance on bells and mirrors to help her spells and charms.
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Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire.
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They were a considerable drain on my meagre resources.
FRIENDS FOR LIFE
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They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
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I am receiving a meagre state pension: the princely sum of 18 pence a week.
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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
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The meagre supplies she had brought had not lasted long with her ravenous hunger.
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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.
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The worst affected households will lose 5,300 next year alone, from an income that is already meagre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Earnings on this level fall to a meagre three cents a share.
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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.
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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.
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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
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The refugees queued up for their meagre rations of soup.
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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
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These meagre details conceal the fluffiest of adolescent rivalries.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘A very useful mare,’ as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy, thoroughbred, meagre-looking brute named
The Duke's Children
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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.
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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
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I'd love to subscribe, but it costs nearly a thousand bucks with our meagre currency!
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She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.
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Media studies is a subject with little intellectual coherence and meagre relevance to the world of work.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw it as a never-ending drain on our meagre stock of rope and timber.
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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
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It is a meagre return when set against what it loses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Residents lived on meagre rations and in squalor, suffering epidemics of leprosy and other contagious diseases.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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For five days he toiled on at "Overdue," going nowhere, seeing nobody, and eating meagrely.
Chapter 40
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She seemed so meagre and weak, like her body had lost that glow.
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Another ambition was to categorise the meagre extant material held in archives.
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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
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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
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My mother did rubber latex tapping for a meagre wage to feed us.
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Some marriages may be strained by the realisation of just how meagre their retirement is likely to be.
Times, Sunday Times
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He gets fifty thousand pounds a year while I get a meagre twenty!
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Railway workers prayed silently before their meagre meal, coaxed from the heat of a charcoal brazier.
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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.
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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
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Despite meagre attempts to beautify the grounds with flowers and shrubs, there was no denying that this was a grim and cheerless place.
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This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Otherwise, the only flaw is the lack of illustrations: ten seems a little meagre in a book such as this.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This was underlined by the meagre recovery in returns on capital in manufacturing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our appeal for help met with a meagre response.
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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.
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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.
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The prisoners existed on a meagre diet of rice and fish.
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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
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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
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He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
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The revolutionary intelligentsia were to assume an importance out of all proportion to their meagre numbers.
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Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming.
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Profits of 177 million are a meagre return on its sales and the slowing economy will hit it hard.
Times, Sunday Times
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But its solo repertoire is meagre, compared with the violin or piano.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Trouble is, their meagre purses / pensions, haven't grown in proportion.
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Now they were trudging home again with their meagre earnings and a bag of rice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything you consume is carefully undecorated and deliberately meagre.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was so weak from hunger he could hardly raise his meagre arms.
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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
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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
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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.
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As art criticism, it has the merit of making a judgement, though description and interpretation may be meagre.
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They are poor farmers who could never easily afford expensive chemicals used in intensive farming, going organic to boost their meagre incomes.
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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
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No other great novelist has had to cope with such meagre opportunities for self-fulfilment.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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)
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When one looks back, it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible.
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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
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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"
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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.
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They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
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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.
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On Tuesday evening a telegraphic despatch was published, but, owing to the meagreness of its contents, did not remove the apprehensions previously existing.
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The velocity, the sheer power and the technology of the rocket perhaps makes all the more pitiful our meagre destiny.
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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
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However, the commissioners admitted such compulsion was rarely realistic, considering the meagreness of most women's wages.
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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.
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Be not in haste," Canim cautioned her, as she began to strap the meagre camp outfit to her pack.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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By mischance the second not was omitted and gave the impression that the inhabitants of Pakistan were delighted with their meagre rations.
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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.
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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 ?
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All the same he would queue up with the other drones for hours to receive his meagre earnings.
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And from what I've seen, you're pretty content with your meagre wardrobe.
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Six goals is a meagre return from 40 caps.
Times, Sunday Times
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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)
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Forget the tiny sprig strategically placed on a lemon sole or the meagre pinch of mint in a pan of potatoes.
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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
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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.
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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
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Through the heat of this long ride, we felt our total lack of water and the meagreness of our supply of food.
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Our resources were too meagre, the demand too great.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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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
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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.
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Old age came to our grandfathers quite suddenly at the end of active working lives on meagre rations.
Times, Sunday Times
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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?