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Quotes From Classical Literature on 'meager'
church, the stuffy, germ-saturated country parlor, or the brutalizing
atmosphere of the back-room saloon. In Prohibition States the people
lack even the latter, unless they can invest their meager earnings in
quantities of adulterated liquor. As to Prohibition, every one knows
what a farce it really is. Like all other achievements of Puritanism
it, too, has but driven the "devil" deeper into the human system.
Nowhere else does one meet so many drunkards as in our Prohibition
towns. But so long as one can use scented candy to abate the foul
young men, rangy in build, lean and hard from life in the saddle, bronzed like
Indians, still-faced, and keen-eyed. Two of them appeared to be tired out, and
lagged at the camp-fire duties. When the meager meal was prepared they sat,
cross-legged, before a ragged tarpaulin, eating and drinking in silence.
The sky in the west was rosy, slowly darkening. The valley floor billowed
away, ridged and cut, growing gray and purple and dark. Walls of stone, pink
with the last rays of the setting sun, inclosed the valley, stretching away
death and poverty--and Gledware wished to live so desperately--so
basely! The chief cared little for life; still, he would
unhesitatingly have preferred the most meager existence to a knife
in his heart; how much more, then, this craven white man. But the
plan had failed because Gledware did not believe death was the other
alternative. Never in the remotest way had it occurred to the
avenger that Gledware could be spared should he prove false to his
oath. Red Feather was less a man with passions than a cold
Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee,
Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge
'Tweene man and man: but thou, thou meager lead
Which rather threatnest then dost promise ought,
Thy palenesse moues me more then eloquence,
And here choose I, ioy be the consequence
Por. How all the other passions fleet to ayre,
confidence.
At the little spring show, at Hampton, a meager eighty dogs were
exhibited, of which only nine were collies. This collie division
contained no specimens to startle the dog-world. Most of the
exhibits were pets. And like nearly all pets, they were
"seconds"--in other words, the less desirable dogs of
thoroughbred litters.
light burned. At ten it was extinguished.
At half past ten he went to Seth's bedroom, found a meager
assortment of pens, ink and note paper, returned to the kitchen,
sat down by the table and began to write.
For an hour he thought, wrote, tore up what he had written, and
began again. At last the result of his labor read something like
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