He felt, somehow, impoverished, and drew his breath more meagrely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Different Girls] Reference

And that way, dripping so meagrely, the load would last a long way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin In The Ice]

And meagrely we reared our living from the ground, and sold our poor herbs to Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

And this was at the back of the head, only the central seam contaminated, and that only meagrely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Thief]

Mr. Claudius led them inside the house, into a big liv - ing room that was rather meagrely furnished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot]

If he ate meagrely, of poor polenta, that was fate, it was the skies that ruled these things, and no man ruled the skies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight in Italy] Reference

Her eyes, wide and wide-set, were bright blue but meagrely supplied with pale lashes, yet very firm and fixed in their regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilgrim of Hate]

“Never mind the blame, but make it good,” Mr. Shargeloes answered, meagrely, for he felt as if he could never be fat again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven] Reference

At night, there were usually stewed grains with spices and vegetables, occasionally with slivers of goat meat meagrely stirred through.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Little Ironies] Reference

Out of respect for the feelings of the monks I had brought up no fresh meat, and of course there is none to be obtained on the mountain, so I dined rather meagrely.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

Danvers remarked that the poor fed meagrely in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

The place was meagrely furnished, but scrupulously clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference

He had breakfasted, meagrely, on bread and honey, at half past seven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priscilla's Spies] Reference

That charity did not fail, though at first it could be but meagrely extended.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference

The Committee of 1824 was but meagrely supplied with evidence as to foreign surveys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

"First he told me," replied Klea, "how meagrely the revenues of the temple are supplied --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

And so they supped meagrely on fried chicken and rice and gravy and hot biscuits and coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stubble] Reference

The soil was mainly mountain land and meagrely productive under toilsome and careful tillage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

It survived -- clinging with a desperate tenacity to the soil which so meagrely nourished it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Books and Irish People] Reference

The expedition was about as meagrely equipped as it well could be and be an expedition at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference

The night so meagrely described at the beginning of this tale followed hard upon a grey, chill day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flyers] Reference

So it came to be that on the next day I found myself standing in a meagrely furnished anteroom at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea] Reference

From the miserably small grant the teachers are badly paid, and, therefore, hastily and meagrely educated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

Like Chenonceaux, it is a watery place, though it is more meagrely moated than the small château on the Cher.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Tour of France] Reference

Light sneaked in through the cracks in the shutters, but so meagrely that it only served to increase the gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hollow of Her Hand] Reference

Bob was again uppermost now, and she spoke but meagrely of old Derriman's visit, and nothing of what he had left.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpet-Major] Reference

So long as it be plastic, any clay serves her turn, however meagrely saturated with the juices running from the carcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference

It was not imposing at all, but it was interesting, albeit very meagrely graced with fine brown hair, dry and neglected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strong Hearts] Reference

She had moreover a great fondness for intervals of solitude, which since her arrival in England had been but meagrely met.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference

"Never mind the blame, but make it good," Mr. Shargeloes answered, meagrely, for he felt as if he could never be fat again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

For sixteen francs a month, which I was compelled to pay in advance, I found a small, meagrely furnished room in the Faubourg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron Trigault's Vengeance] Reference

"I delight in general in artists, but I delight still more in their defenders," Peter made reply, perhaps a little meagrely, to Biddy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Muse] Reference

They were badly generalled, shockingly clothed and meagrely fed on provisions that the ordinary civilian would scarcely give to swine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century] Reference

It is only necessary to recal these well-known facts to understand why one great element of production -- human labour -- was but meagrely supplied.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference