Meagre

Meagre as it may seem, conditions here are actually far better than in factories elsewhere.

Bangladesh: Working women face violence and discrimination 2011

Rembrandt was paid more per portrait head for "The Nightwatch" than was Frans Hals for "Meagre Company," and his etchings sold well all his life.

Real Deal Rembrandt 2008

Meagre and spare, like all the other rooms, it was even uglier and grimmer than the rest, by being the place of banishment for the worn – out furniture.

Little Dorrit 2007

Meagre C. Besysted (In his anxiety to swell his catalogue as much as possible, Sir Thomas Urquhart has set down this word twice.)

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Meagre C. Besysted (In his anxiety to swell his catalogue as much as possible, Sir Thomas Urquhart has set down this word twice.)

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Meagre teacher salaries, overcrowded classrooms and a lack of resources would continue.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Meagre teacher salaries, overcrowded classrooms and lack of resources would continue, it said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Meagre social conditions, peculiar isolation, savagery, strife for life, call for no complex language, but sign-language has the authority of people living on the globe to-day, not only amongst uncivilised races, but traces are seen in our very midst.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

Meagre, unknown, unimportant Borealis, with her threescore men and one decent woman, shared, like the weightiest empire, in the smile, the care, the yearning of the ever All-Pitiful, greeting the earth with another perfect day.

Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels