Laughter had speedily evaporated; and, his harsher mood returning upon him, Iglesias found a certain bitter enjoyment in setting forth the extreme meagreness of his life before this light-hearted, unsubstantial piece of womanhood.
The meagreness of the allusions to Christianity which are found in Josephus, in the Talmud, and in the Greek and Latin writers, need not surprise us.
The traveller refused with a silent shake of the head, and the landlady apologized for the meagreness of their fare.
The flattering testimony borne by these figures to the meagreness of French navigation, in the particular quarter, needed doubtless to be qualified by reference to their home trade from the West Indies, borne in French ships.
Giving rhetorical vent to their spleen and prejudice, they exaggerated nature's meagreness and mathematical dryness.
The meagreness of our information concerning the historic career of Jesus stands in striking contrast with the mass of information which lies within our reach concerning the primitive character of Christologic speculation.
One reason for the common neglect of John is doubtless the meagreness of information about him.
And then I was not a little discontented at the meagreness of what I read.
In truth, it was not a sumptuous repast; but the meagreness of the fare was in some sort countervailed by the bewitching presence of the Burgomaster's daughter.
He had witnessed in his youth the commencement of the dramatic art in Spain; the poetical poverty of which, as well as the meagreness of the theatrical decorations, are very humorously described by him.
Towards the close of the work, the state of theology in England receives some attention; but here we are disposed to note, not only the meagreness of the information supplied, but in one case its inexactness.
If, however, there are more interesting temples in Italy, there are few more richly and variously scenic and splendid, the comparative meagreness of the architectural idea being overlaid by a marvellous wealth of ingenious detail.
Her learning always had insulted his own meagreness of information and aptness in repartee.
She had found her own hunger for learning, her own strength and weakness, and while she had lost to the Widow Plosell, she had clearly seen that it was not her fault but Gus Carline's meagreness of mind and shallowness of soul.
But here the meagreness of the Moslem annals compels us to lament the premature death of Conde.
The meagreness or negativeness of their content has been in an inverse ratio to their power.
His hair had the traditional thespian curl in spite of being cropped short, to allow of various make-ups, one surmised, and his very blue eyes were in a perpetual state of extenuating the meagreness of his other features.
I had put it to him that the meagreness of my personal experiences had, so far, tended to the skimping of my art.
Such a style is capable of great swiftness of movement, and is well suited to rapid description and narrative; but at times roughness or meagreness results.
The meagreness of the earliest entries and the crudeness of the language, together with occasional picturesque force, indicate that many of them were drawn from current song or tradition.
Its colour was red, its size immense; its excessive meagreness showed that it had been wandering about homeless for some time past.
Upon a consideration of the meagreness of our exchequer, we came to the resolution that it would be better to purchase what we required at some secondhand shop.
To the carelessness of the contemporaneous writers, to whom alone we can at this day look for information upon detailed points of interest, must be added, as a cause of the meagreness of the record, their lack of opportunity.
I hinted at the chief cause of this meagreness and obscurity when I said, just now, that Red Eagle could not write.
The meagreness of the furniture and tableware never struck her so forcibly as now, lost in the big new house.
It was as if her eyes had suddenly been opened to all the intolerable meagreness of her old-time life.
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