For five days he toiled on at "Overdue," going nowhere, seeing nobody, and eating meagrely. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
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. ❋ Unknown (2006)
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. ❋ Unknown (2005)
At night, there were usually stewed grains with spices and vegetables, occasionally with slivers of goat meat meagrely stirred through. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
“Never mind the blame, but make it good,” Mr. Shargeloes answered, meagrely, for he felt as if he could never be fat again. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She had moreover a great fondness for intervals of solitude, which since her arrival in England had been but meagrely met. ❋ Unknown (2003)
To say that Madame Merle improved on acquaintance states meagrely the impression she made on her friend, who had found her from the first so ample and so easy. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He regarded its complications as more curious than edifying, and he had an idea of the beauty of REASON, which was, on the whole, meagrely gratified by what he observed in his female patients. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If he ate meagrely, of poor polenta, that was fate, it was the skies that ruled these things, and no man ruled the skies. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Honore, by dint of insistence, obtained permission to remain in Paris, where he would be freer to work and could more easily get into relations with publishers; and a meagrely furnished attic-study was rented for him at No. 9 Rue Lesdiguieres, a street near the Arsenal, still bearing the same name. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If she had lived among the rich it would have been different; she would then have thought it normal to be assured, for life, of the possessions for which others toiled; she would, indeed, have thought herself rather meagrely provided. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
And this was at the back of the head, only the central seam contaminated, and that only meagrely. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
All gone now, and the culprit slipped through his fingers, so that he was left to trail home a manifest failure, meagrely re-paid for his travels, and short of a novice not, perhaps, exemplary in his behaviour, but valued for his voice, and therefore also in his way profitable. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
The ground was covered but meagrely, small, needle-sharp flakes out of an almost clear sky, brittle with stars and too cold for a heavy fall. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1988)
The future stretched before her dull and bare as the deserted length of Fifth Avenue, and opportunities showed as meagrely as the few cabs trailing in quest of fares that did not come. ❋ Edith Wharton (1987)
