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Because the city was in darkness, only meager details of the condition of the flood-marooned inhabitants were obtainable.
It also required a general knowledge and resourcefulness which enabled the machinist to make good with the meager facilities.
When we were served a lavish meal, including out-of-season mangoes, I noticed that my brother-in-law's appetite was meager.
Another notable feature of the Japanese is their meager endowment of originality and, conversely, their marked aptitude for adaptability.
Despite the meager records relating to the many individual haciendas, there are excellent studies of regional haciendas in Mexico.
"What an interesting question that raises," observed Wickham, examining rather ruefully the three meager cards he had drawn.
After seeing these latter scrubby, meager apologies for deer, one wonders why something better cannot be turned loose there.
Their children were numerous, without educational advantages, and accustomed to the poor and meager cultural life of an outcast class.
Manifestly so short a story must be mainly conclusions and generalizations with but meager indication of authorities and underlying arguments.
Its meager resources have been spread over such vast fields that in spots the substance has seemed tenuous and transparent.
Its meager and widely scattered social life, and its average of morality, were more or less affected by his shortcomings.
At the present time genealogical records of the average family are woefully meager and comparatively few are available for public inspection.
As the Union forces were increased over a large area, the Confederates were forced to station their meager forces farther apart.
His meager visage seemed insensibly to gather beauty; every muscle in it had meaning, and his eye beamed with unusual brightness.
More continuous annals followed; but these are meager in contents, and make no attempt to find links of connection between events.
The meager shrubs are miracles of adaptation and those seeming barren wastes rustle under the feet of countless busy creatures.
Many children do poor work in school because they are not sufficiently nourished, and frequently the meager breakfast is at fault.
In doing so, he exposed to view the many wires making up an astonishingly substantial cable, for so meager an office building.
Nowhere are labor unions formed more easily, and while meager in their activities, as compared to American or English, they have coherence.
By this meager percentage, seven thousand liberally trained men are needed for the nearly seven million Africans in our country.
With the knowledge of science so small at the time, collegiate instruction in such subjects was naturally meager in the extreme.
The struggle for existence is too fierce and the opportunity, in childhood and youth, for self-expression and initiative is too meager.
By the same roundabout route he circled back to his camp, cooked his meager lunch, and in the afternoon ventured forth again.
There were a dozen listeners, malice-prompted, eager to ascribe to this falter of an old man's memory every meager and jealous motive.
I soften the meager remnant in water; then, keeping it still immersed, I blow into it through an extremely attenuated glass tube.
Much of this wealth has been squandered through lack of knowledge of its worth and because of meager facilities for its utilization.
To dream of quinine, denotes you will soon be possessed of great happiness, though your prospects for much wealth may be meager.
The farmer's meager wardrobe and other belongings were soon rummaged over, but one large closet and several bureau drawers were locked.
The work cannot be judged entirely by tallying its meager number of editions, its lack of thoroughness, or its artificial divisions.
Poor animals, either those which are meager from lack of food or from disease, are to be rigidly excluded from the slaughter pen.
One cannot detect in its meager shape and in its scanty and audacious results the extent of positive knowledge which lies behind.
The simple villagers still cultivated their strips in the common fields in the time-honored way, working hard for meager returns.
Beautiful, joy-steeped, pleasure-filled days these were for the couple, who had been cramped for life's smallest necessities so many meager years.
These meager details of our civil war have not been given with the purpose of reviving unpleasant memories or of perpetuating sectional animosities.
Upon this meager sum, three ordained missionaries, two teachers and farmers, and six women, with eight or ten children were maintained.
To add to his anxieties, the supply of cannon, guns, powder, clothing, food, and all needed equipments, was often painfully meager.
Whispered John Jr., himself reddening as he noted the different articles of furniture which had never before seemed so meager and poor.
Efficient development may be cut down into meager brevity, and in this way only can apparent equality of plan be secured throughout.
From the glazed look in Chief's protruding eyes I could tell Ned had quickly passed the boundaries of the Chief's meager knowledge.
It is much to be regretted that the chronicles of the war of the Revolution in the South are so meager in personal incidents.
He sang out with a humorous twist of his jaw as he noted the Curator's evident chagrin at his meager and unsatisfactory appearance.
I am afraid the foregoing very meager account of the family connections will give you very little that you do not know already.
None of them had more than a meager supply of water, which was soon exhausted; the sun beat down with a merciless severity.
His pecuniary circumstances continued desperate, but there were certain incidents of an artistic kind which afforded the struggling genius a meager consolation.
He had distinguished himself by valor, and, but for his humble extraction and meager education, might have risen to a high command.
There was no doubt of this child's sincerity, no doubt of the drab, pinched quality of her meager opportunity for childish fun.
She looked about her at the cheap, meager furniture, the small mirror that distorted her face, the bare outlook from the window.
The meager furniture of the room was splintered and broken, and the whole place looked as though a cyclone had struck it.
Tucker snored, Susan worked on, getting every piece of at all fit clothing in her meager wardrobe into the best possible condition.
From the meager reports of the proceedings kept by their secretary, we glean that more than one plan of adjustment was considered.
Every one was prepared to credit it, and it was partly corroborated by more meager news carried in the New Orleans Bulletin.
There is, to be sure, rarely any difficulty in the natural birth of the fetus, for its meager development prevents serious complications.
I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day.
Thompson sardonically considered them as a means of supporting a wife he was forced to admit that the provision would be intolerably meager.
He lighted the weed and smiled quizzically while they examined the meager contents of the slicker pack on the rear of his saddle.
And, because he wished to conserve his meager supply of light, he snapped off the electric torch to sit staring into utter darkness.
It seemed pitifully meager to Wade at that despondent moment, exhausted as he was by the long, hard journey and the sultry heat.
His few booklets were then gathered together, his meager wardrobe was made up, and a small Native basket carried all his belongings.
The meager daylight peered in through the grated windows and showed him the gaunt figures of the weavers, bending over their cases.
For a few minutes after this disclosure, the excited questioning kept Ned busy recounting such meager facts as were in his possession.
He was now thirty-three, but the pace he was going and keeping made his chances of living out the stated allotment seem meager.
Now she dropped her inadequate handkerchief and wept convulsively into her hands and a thin shaft of sunshine lighted up the meager solitaire.
I can never forget that harmonious combination of gray and white, as I have annexed copious samples of it to most of my meager wardrobe.
In climates where the summer's heat and sunshine are apt to be meager, this advantage of the horizontal cordon will be comparatively greater.
The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager.
Shut in these bare rooms, with no treatment, no exercise, no variety, and meager food, cases of slight derangement soon grew into chronic lunacy.
To the left were the meager camp fires of the Indians; further up the hills a more generous blazing line marked the French position.
He couldn't see any sanguinary lady in the rosy pool, and you know the poor fellow has but a very meager choice of words.
In the list as above set down will be found every positively known fact of Shakespeare's life, lean and meager as the invoice is.
No candidate for musical sovereignty ever presented herself with what must have appeared a more meager catalog of pretensions at the outset of her career.
A little old man in a threadbare coat closely buttoned round a meager body went up to the guard at the foot of the gangway.
Following my lengthy siesta, I ate a meager supper of greens, cucumbers and carrots (salad) and a baked apple with honey and walnuts.
Thanksgiving was made notable only through the efforts of Sergeant Foley, who purchased supplies at the commissary to add to the meager rations.
What meager instruction he receives comes from a journeyman worker who is none too eager to give up what he considers the secrets of his trade.
He opened its drawers and tossed their meager contents ruthlessly, searching for some letter or scrap of paper to throw light on her exit.
The large, comfortable cottage, with its graceful furniture, its books, its meager, comfortable furnishings, was a house of death, dread and horror.
His long legs were stretched straight before him overlapping the meager blanket, his spurs buried in the sandy soil of the little desert oasis.
As I stared down at the roof of our shack it looked small and pitiful, tragically meager to house the tangled human destinies it was housing.
It gives a meager effect to the seasons, while it mars the simplicity of what would else have appeared a grand connected mass of imitative art.
The inhabitants would gather in large numbers at the post office, and the meager war news contained in the newspapers would be read aloud.
He was a man just reckless enough in all things to be generous and alive, yet never foolishly wasteful either of himself or his meager substance.
Far up on one of the roofs a man, crouching behind the meager shelter offered by a chimney, blessed the chance which fortune provided.
He did not know that there was small chance of even his meager salary being paid until June, and he had been ordained in February.
Rather than lose it before his actions were vindicated he would suffer the depletion to the last penny of a not altogether meager bank account.
He rose with an uncouth abruptness, a meager commonplace, and hurried over the path to the beach, toward the refuge, the release, of the Gar.
The Village Squire sows, reaps and garners golden harvests; the Parish Clergyman sighs, as his casting vote cuts down his already meager salary.
His arms closed around them like tentacles, and he was off for the meager yards he could gain before he went down with a crash.
When left a widow with an only daughter she had schemed and contrived in endless ways to maintain an appearance of competency on a meager income.
And now his head began to spin round, and a wild expression of energy crept into his inflamed eyes and pale, meager, wan face.
The country school has been stupidly indifferent to the wealth of its resources and has forced upon its pupils a meager and lifeless program.
It might be possible for a man to catch hold of the meager tail of a meteor and let it snatch him through the coming years.
The accommodation for bachelors is somewhat meager; but married couples are treated very liberally, and their quarters are brightened by pretty little gardens.
He was plainly disturbed, more so than I could find any justification for in the meager facts and surmises he had just confided to me.
The candlelight came down like a golden spray of phosphorescent liquid, bathing and making visible a meager space in the middle of the lower floor.
From these meager facts the reader must imagine the magnificence and grandeur of the Colosseum, or seek for fuller information in works of ancient art.
His frame was meager and bent; but it was the attitude of habit, for his sinews were strung with the toil of half a century.
Miss Phillips suggested that the girl might come back again after her money was all spent; upon this meager supposition Marjorie fastened her expectations.
They had expected the meager tea, toast, and jam, which some Americans consider to be customary in English homes, because it is encountered in the hotels.
Little is known of the story of this day within the earthen triangle, save as it is told in the meager details of the general battle.
The thought of revenge gave to her the first meager gleam of comfort that had lightened her moods through many miserable days and nights.