Meanwhile, there were other, far heavier drafts upon that meager purse.
But how successfully the pseudo-magistrate dispensed justice must, by reason of the meagerdetails that have been preserved, be left largely to conjecture.
The poor lady succumbed early to the hardships of the Indiana backwoods; and the few facts that are known concerning her brief life set forth but a meager story.
The meager and ambiguous remarks of Tacitus on the state of domestic and civil economy among the inhabitants of Germany need no longer detain anyone, in the presence of the available archaeological and historical evidence.
But peace hath its victories no less renowned than war, it is said; and peaceable folk of a patriotic temper have learned to make the best of their meager case and have found self-complacency in these victories of the peaceable order.
He once was independent, in a meager and toil-worn fashion, in the days before the price-system had brought him and all his works into the compass of the market; but that was some time ago.
Of stinted, meager frame, his was the extreme pallor that denoted ill health, years of hardship, or vicious habits.
Night had come before she had completed this labor, and gathered another supply of dead limbs and rotted logs, and cooked their meager supper.
Moreover, all the delicacies that Pete had brought had been consumed, despite their most careful husbanding, and even the meager supply of salt and pepper would soon be exhausted, leaving only the unseasoned venison of odious memory.
His rope was useless on that meager footing, where there was barely room for his horse to stand, much less for Haig to swing a noose.
By day it was possible to combat it in some measure, but at night they were stung and tortured by the frost that invaded the cave, and defied their meager clothing.
But for all that, it was not without uneasiness that she hastily arranged the meager folds of her divided skirt, and passed her hands quickly over the still disordered masses of her hair.
When troops moved into combat they took with them only such equipment as they could carry on their backs or on the meager transportation facilities allowed.
Such technical information as the allied nations had developed during the war had been most carefully guarded from us and all other neutral countries, with the result that what information we had was of a meager and conflicting sort.
With responsibility so suddenly thrust upon her there was no opportunity to brood upon her own troubles or the meager state of her finances.
It seemed to her that the trees were intolerably meagerin girth; she felt as if she were trying to hide behind a series of widely placed lead pencils.
For the hope, and the fear, and the joy had quite overcome the child, enfeebled as he was by meager fare; his lips were quite pale, and his cheeks.
Better for them to enter into this life maimed of strength, she thought, by meager food, than tainted with the taint of beggary.
The meager reports given us raise our curiosity, but fail to satisfy it.
At Quiotepec we have very meager accounts of such a ruin.
The first and only house she entered was in charge of a thin, meager woman, the type of Miss Witherspoon, but with a more domineering manner and a flatter bust.
He supplemented the meager equipment of his department from his more extensive private apparatus and collections, which were freely used for class work; and, when there was need, he had the skill to prepare new pieces of apparatus.
Now we will wind this into a pretty ball, and I will cover all you make for the boys to play with"; and a new occupation was added to his meager list.
He turned hopefully to the sermon, determined to pick up any crumbs of comfort that might fall from Mr. Bosaw's meager table.
Shut in these bare rooms, with no treatment, no exercise, no variety, and meager food, cases of slight derangement soon grew into chronic lunacy.
Captain Wegg would not permit him to go to school, but himself attended to such instructions as Joe could acquire at home, and this was so meager and the boy so ambitious that I think it was one cause of his discontent.
We sat on the roadside and ate our meager fare, making joke and jest of our utter lack of comfort.
Riding forth in the bitter cold of that February morning, 1429, with but meager escort and along three hundred miles of brigand-infested roads and trails, she traversed France to the court of Chinon.
With these rather meager performances, the reforms of the Republicans came to an end.
The ass in the mill at least receives in the evening his meager pittance.
Mr. and Mrs. Pelz sat crouched and shivering over their meager supper when the door opened, and Hanneh Breineh in fur coat and plumed hat charged into the room.
However, questioned directly about Mrs. Kraemer's presence at a sitting, the servant's ready flow of comment and explanation abruptly dwindled to the meager invocation of holy names.
But the bearing of the meager boy and the level glance of the untamable blue eyes once more assure her that he has not been sent here from beyond Turntable to fail her at extremity.
But its own scope was so meager that it required supplementation by information concerning matters outside of sense-perception and by matters which appealed more directly to thought.
The effect of a tawdry, unarranged, and over-decorated environment works for the deterioration of taste, just as meager and barren surroundings starve out the desire for beauty.
These and other successive encroachments on the royal prerogatives resulted in the establishment of an aristocratic government of the nobility, and are almost the only events that fill the meager annals of Athens for several centuries.
Meanwhile the farming people would continue to live upon the meager products still produced from the impoverished soil, even though they had no surplus food to ship into the cities.
It seems to hurt the plant worse to throw its food supply completely out of balance than to leave it with nothing except what it draws from the meager store in the seed planted.
The reporter was away even before Johnny had completed his meager description.
Despite his meager knowledge, he did wonderfully well.
Pale and meager as was her face, and poor and shabby as was her dress, the proud and flaunting Miss Polly Bragwell was easily known by every one present.
In practically every soil that has been cultivated and cropped, in long-settled districts, the amounts of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash which are immediately available will be too meager to produce a good crop of vegetables.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meager" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
