The text gives a meagre outline of the reigns of himself and his son Ahab, of which perhaps the meagreness is the most significant feature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

The party also noted the meagreness in content of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

With all his narrowness of outlook and meagreness of sensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

The meagreness of the supply renders the destitution more manifest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 12, December, 1888] Reference

To her, if he mentioned his diet, its meagreness was emphasized rather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

They were present to me now, but coolly and sanely in all their meagreness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

The inspector claimed to be “struck by the smallness and meagreness of the cranium.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

The meagreness or negativeness of their content has been in an inverse ratio to their power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

But no "educational meagreness" can keep the feet of some climbers off the educational ladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

To conceal the meagreness of his strength in a legislative caucus, Clinton was renominated with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

One reason for the common neglect of John is doubtless the meagreness of information about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference

"Yes," she says again, and for the first time is struck by the wretched meagreness of her replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [April's Lady A Novel] Reference

And singularly enough, it seems, with all its meagreness, to pass easily into an ostentatious display.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference

This very meagreness, however, is strong evidence that the measures were enacted without much friction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference

The narrowness of the high concept is, finally, too much a sort of meagreness, and too little a scalpel edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shades of Grey: Summary and book reviews of Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.] Reference

Many an educational reformer has had cause to wring his hands over the meagreness of attendance in days gone by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference

The notes added by the American editor are very scant, and yet so sensible as to enhance one's regret at their paucity and meagreness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

“Which he always does with the more sonorous grace in proportion to the meagreness of the cheer which he has provided,” said Bucklaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

But the meagreness of the number of ascertained facts did not prevent much speculation among a people eager to seek the causes of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference

His nose, mouth, and chin were symmetrically, if not elegantly formed, and came short of beauty only because of that meagreness which marked his whole person.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference

I forgot my coarse clothes, my well-nigh empty pockets, my inability to buy the many beautiful things that kept tantalizing me, and the meagreness of my salary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

The meagreness of accounts of a documentary character in relation to the famous makers of Cremona naturally renders every contribution of the kind of some value.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

The attempt has been made to treat with levity the whole subject of the antiquity of man because of the numerical meagreness of the facts adduced in support of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference

Westlake, who made merry over the occasional simplicity, not to say meagreness of the harmonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cardinal Newman as a Musician] Reference

I have really seen whole houses, little more than shells, reduced to meagreness by the pocket-knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference

Disappointment at its meagreness helped to incite him to schemes for the capture of the Mexico fleet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

I make the allusion in apology and excuse for the meagreness of what I have to bestow for thy many heroic services.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference

Also, my attitude may be considered, in part, as a reaction from my childhood's meagreness and my childhood's excessive toil.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

He was wearing khaki shorts and puttees; even the latter, tightly fitting, did little to disguise the meagreness of his calves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force] Reference

Alas, how often historical statements are thus reduced to meagreness, after the hypothetical or ill-supported part has been sifted out!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference

Animals of this species, perhaps on account of their extreme meagreness, swim badly; and consequently it was saved with some difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference