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What kind of man is this Meagre? [9]

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These had sent word that De la Foret was now attached to the meagre suite of the widow of the great Camisard Montgomery, near the Castle of Mont Orgueil. [11]
Then; for a while, he had gained a meagre living by sewing up bursted sacks of grain on the piers; when that failed he had found food here and there as chance threw it in his way. [5]
But one day when the meagre village chemist saw him cracking jokes with Beard, the carpenter, and sidled in with a silly air of equality, which was merely insolence, Gaston softly dismissed him, with his ears tingling. [11]
I was thin when I went, but I was meagre indeed when I returned, my face looking grey and very old, with strange deep lines ploughed in it--my eyes stared unnaturally. [14]
In fact, I was not sorry she came, for there are but meagre pickings here, and she brought some of those apples. [5]
It was as though something in their meagre lives, which belonged to undeveloped feelings, was fighting for existence--a light struggling to break through murky veils of inexperience. [11]
On the way thither, Hadrian asked: "Is the steward so miserably paid that he is forced to content himself with such meagre fare? [10]
He came to the top of a ridge on which were a handful of meagre trees. [11]
Munich did seem the horriblest place, the most desolate place, the most unendurable place!--and the rooms were so small, the conveniences so meagre, and the porcelain stoves so grim, ghastly, dismal, intolerable! [5]
They were a sorry rabble, for they rushed on La Prairie, that meagre place,--massacred and turned tail. [11]
They are not small and meagre, but are big, brawny fellows, clothed in wide duck trousers and shirts, and they are well-armed--cutlass, powder-horn, haversack, sling, shot-gun, and pouch for ball. [11]
So please you, sir, my meagre tale is told. [5]
The meagre letter received to-day again taught her that her anticipations were not realized. [10]
He was a pale, simple-looking man, of a spare and meagre habit, and sat among his flowers and beehives, smoking his pipe, in the little porch before his door. [12]
Nor were his opportunities for the study of character so meagre as the limit of one family would imply. [4]
What a homeless old age at that meagre Italian table d'hote, with that tall glass of beer for a half-hour's oblivion! [8]
The west side of the town had meagre military defenses, the great cliffs being thought impregnable. [11]
Janet was by no means ungrateful for the warmth of such affection, though in moments conscious of a certain perplexity and sadness because she was able to give such a meagre return for the wealth of its offering. [9]
But take the names of its contributors during its first fifty years from the literary record of that period, and we should have but a meagre list of mediocrities, saved from absolute poverty by the genius of two or three writers like Irving and Cooper. [6]
There was no moon--only a meagre starlight when they set forth from Chaussey. [11]
The pinched and meagre aspect of the place would have killed a chameleon. [12]
One by one its meagre parcel of inhabitants packed up and moved away, as the summer waned and fall approached. [5]
Bopp's lectures, where I tried to increase my meagre knowledge of Sanscrit, I attended, unfortunately, only a few hours. [10]
The minister and his wife ware invariably astonished, after their guest was gone, at the meagre result of their inquiries. [9]
Another consideration troubled him--McCrae's family, dependent on a rather meagre salary. [9]
She has given him the thin skin, the meagre skin which is stretched over the remaining one-fifth--the naked bones stick up through it in most places. [5]
A stenographer would have made a meagre report of it, for the most significant part of this conversation of two fresh, honest natures was not in words. [4]
Thereupon the other--the greffier of the court--settled down at his desk beneath the jurats, and peered into an open book before him, his eyes close to the page, reading silently by the meagre light of a candle from the great desk behind him. [11]
The few meagre facts of Harriet Shelley's life, as furnished by the book, acquit her of offense; but by calling in the forbidden helps of rumor, gossip, conjecture, insinuation, and innuendo he destroys her character and rehabilitates Shelley's--as he believes. [5]
I became perplexed, dissatisfied--the results were so meagre, so out of proportion to the labour. [9]
The meagre Latin class recited with honor. [5]
We run railways by our large cities in America; in Syria they curve the roads so as to make them run by the meagre little puddles they call "fountains," and which are not found oftener on a journey than every four hours. [5]
There was the buttery off that, with its meagre china and crockery, its window looking out on the field of rye, the little orchard of winter apples, and the hedge of cranberry bushes. [11]
The flat had been dismantled of its meagre furniture, the rug was rolled up and tied, and a trunk strapped with rope was in the middle of the floor. [9]
Make something to be sure he must--so long as he was only a law clerk on a meagre salary--and it was this necessity that had much to do with the production of the manuscripts. [4]
This Brass was an attorney of no very good repute, from Bevis Marks in the city of London; he was a tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen, a protruding forehead, retreating eyes, and hair of a deep red. [12]
He considered himself a lawyer of parts, and he very much wanted an opportunity to manifest it--partly for the pure gratification of it and partly because his salary was Territorially meagre (which is a strong expression). [5]
And more proclamations, a la Napoleon, were issued to sustain and hearten those who were finding bread and onions meagre fare, to shame the hesitating, the wavering. [9]

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