| 单词 | meagerness |
| 例句 | His frustration at the meagerness of his thanks was like the small but constant whine of a gnat in his thoughts. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But when Arturo didn’t say anything, I felt acutely the meagerness of it, the insufficiency. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Neither parent apologized for the meagerness of the food. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s no choice but to walk the rest of the way through Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, which should be renamed Herbert Hooverville for its clusters of tents and aura of meagerness. This is what it feels like at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The meagerness of Larry’s inner world becomes the novel’s own, and readers are offered a banquet of crass judgment and dubious wisdom. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z With that out of the way, Ewan finishes by torching Logan’s legacy, saying his brother fed “a certain kind of meagerness in men.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z There is a fine line between elegant simplicity and mere meagerness. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z “From a Low and Quiet Sea,” a new novel by Donal Ryan, is so exquisitely rendered, with raw anguish sublimated into lyrical prose, that you sometimes overlook the meagerness of its slice-of-life offerings. Review | Three tragic characters are mysteriously linked in ‘From a Low and Quiet Sea’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Past payments and land allotments to Indigenous Californians were considered by many to be insulting in their meagerness. Reparations are proposed for Black Californians. What about Indigenous people? 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z It marked the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in nearly 30 years, and its meagerness spoke to the fecklessness of the moment. Column: Here's why Congress and our political system allow these mass shootings to continue 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z This language about meagerness and failure seems to have an inoculating effect. An inside look at the improbable longevity of Seattle’s scrappy Annex Theatre 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The meagerness of their clothing is one of the tokens of their sanctity. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Atilio was giving vent to his melancholy by lamenting the meagerness of the afternoon tea. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z From extreme meagerness, if not poverty, of furniture it sprang into opulence—almost ornately magnificent it seemed to me with my conservative New England tastes and still more conservative New England pocketbook. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z But meagerness of rations could be borne better than sound of cannon, although there was as yet no bombardment from the Americans—a state of affairs, however, that did not last long. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z She led them through the whole house, assisting them with charming graciousness to select the most suitable apartments, and bewailing the meagerness of her domestic force which would compel the soldiers to wait upon themselves. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z The average meagerness of our Fairs, so generally and justly complained of, is not the fault of those who sent what they had, but of those who, having better, were too lazy to send anything. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z No apology is offered for its meagerness or fragmentary character. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z As he met the hunger in the girl’s questioning eyes, his heart sickened at the meagerness of his news. The Key to Yesterday The brevity and meagerness of these official reports often leave one puzzled as to their meaning. The Opium Monopoly It sated the exigent appetite of Ewing—his luncheon with Sydenham had been a mere adventure in meagerness—and sated without cloying, but it was more than food to him. Ewing\\'s Lady If she stands off a year or so, in self-pity, bemoaning the meagerness of her environment, she may work for a decade thereafter to regain lost confidence and live down a reputation for snobbishness. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Free association, individual enterprise, the creative fervor of genius, and, later, governmental policy have worked wonders in overcoming the meagerness of secular life. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Should important omissions occur, it will be due to the meagerness of existing evidence. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. The discouraging meagerness of the financial returns for a year of such constant toil. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century She was thinner, with more than the graceful meagerness of youth, and her eyes looked pathetically large from her pale face. Old Crow Density of population, overworking of land, meagerness of returns to agricultural labor—these are the conditions that primarily fix the habitat of most kinds of manufacturing. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy Its esthetic bareness had affected her like the meagerness of poverty. Aurora the Magnificent He knew it by the very meagerness of his regret in giving up Elsie Darling and all that the winning of her would have implied. The Side Of The Angels A Novel He described what it did to the young, who got caught and were slaves for life, unless they could be cured—and he spoke of the meagerness of the cures that were known. Prologue to an Analogue Until 1634, the general court had been a primary assembly, but in that year representation was introduced and the towns sent deputies, who soon began to complain of the meagerness of their powers. The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths But as it is, the man's poverty and friendlessness and meagerness of life render it difficult to find out vulnerable points of attack. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Whether this ethical and religious meagerness was a consequence of the vagueness of the relation between the sea and human life, or of some other fact, is a point that can hardly be determined. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV His hair is lank and uncared for; his russet smock, tied in at the waist, wants brushing; his untidy cross-gartered hose shows up the meagerness of his legs. Once on a Time A miserable contrast he presented, in my eyes, to the Etonian brilliancy of my favorite master; and, besides, he could not disguise from my hourly notice the poverty and meagerness of his understanding. Stories of Authors, British and American I mention this because there are some Americans here who declare themselves ashamed of their country because of the meagerness of its share in the Exhibition. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The night wind, bitter from the water, met him as he went, driving through the meagerness of his clothes, and still he smiled, cherished his mood like a treasure. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories In fact they agree in having a relative meagerness of theistic differentiation, but in some important points they are far apart. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV A small pot bubbled on the stove and two cold potatoes and half a stale loaf on the shelf betrayed the meagerness of the larder. The Fifth Ace And so as he listened, in the meanness and meagerness of his soul, he kept thinking, “I will let her down easy—no need for a scene.” The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills I see that Punch this week reiterates The Times's slurs at the meagerness and poverty of the American contribution. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. When Elsa had begun housekeeping for the men she had protested over the meagerness and the simplicity of the food supplies. The Forbidden Trail The Governor would probably be disappointed in him if he confessed the meagerness of his experiences, and he felt that it would be a grave error to jeopardize his standing with his companion. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! What is here said of the plan of the Acts explains still more strikingly the meagerness of the record of the third journey. The Life of St. Paul Why shouldn't she want life's fullness instead of life's meagerness and its breadth instead of its bigotries? The Tyranny of Weakness Newcastle is the location of one of those immense structures which illustrate the Industrial greatness and pecuniary strength of Britain, and illustrate also the meagerness of her Railroad dividends. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. We do not have half good enough opinions of our possibilities; do not expect half enough of ourselves; we do not demand half enough, hence the meagerness, the stinginess of what we actually get. Pushing to the Front Do not feel discouraged at the meagerness of the results you now obtain. Japan Will Turn Ablaze! It was a dwelling place of unusual pretentiousness for that land of "Do-without," where inexorable meagerness is the rule of life. A Pagan of the Hills Blake, as he watched her, could see the oval shadows under her collar bones and the almost girlish meagerness of breast half-covered by the azure silk bodice. Never-Fail Blake Perfect soporific tranquillity possessed the surroundings except for shell-bursts, and their meagerness intensified the aspect, strangely enough, on that battlefield where I had never seen a quieter afternoon since the Somme offensive had begun. My Second Year of the War It does not relish living perpetually on the ragged edge of a scant, uncertain meagerness. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals She could not improvise ornaments and graces; and, when she came on, the unusual meagerness of her style astonished the audience. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag "Bob Flick got back last night," he said, and then, abashed by the meagerness of this bit of information, attempted to enhance its value. The Black Pearl The vocabulary is unsatisfactory, not only because of its meagerness, but because most of the terms are unimportant for comparison. Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 The meagerness and triteness of the music and piece astonished me. Records of a Girlhood We recognize its meagerness; we see in it the timidity of politicians; but beyond and through all, we see a promise of the future. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The meagerness of my output was beneath remark. Lazarre Be this as it may, there was something very attractive in this pallor, since it was accompanied by an embonpoint indicating any thing but romantic meagerness of constitution. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It is not at all certain that your friends and family would not rather have frequent post-cards than occasional letters all too obviously displaying the meagerness of their messages in halting orthography. Etiquette Oh, the poverty of mortal mind, the sad meagerness of the human soul! Mince Pie In some cases, where it was impossible to record the tales when heard, only the substance was noted, a fact which will account for the meagerness of detail evident in a few of the stories. Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore I had lost the meagerness of childhood and began to feel a new and delightful affluence. The Morgesons Perhaps because of the meagerness of that early proscribed literature; or did the title "Father of his Country" appeal irresistibly to that lofty and doomed ambition? The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California We were very much disappointed at its meagerness, and especially that the boundary did not include a port in the Gulf of California. Building a State in Apache Land It cannot, on the other hand, carry on its own aggressive work, for it is hampered by the smallness of its staff and the meagerness of its appropriation. Library Work with Children And they proceeded to enjoy themselves in the necessarily quiet and limited way imposed by the littleness of their present world and the meagerness of the resources. The Price She Paid Theirs was a curious sort of friendship—extraordinarily close in view of the meagerness of either's information about the other, to say nothing of the disparity between their ages. The Black Bag The creative power inherent in every child's mind filled out the meagerness of the setting of them. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Lincoln did not like the pompous little fellow whose rotund and diminutive figure was in glaring contrast to his own--a young man, but colossal, while his stature was augmented by his meagerness. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form He and Betty Dalrymple breakfasted together on an old log; it wasn't much of a meal—a few crackers and crumbs that were left—but neither appeared to mind the meagerness of the fare. A Man and His Money The poor child flushed painfully while admitting the meagerness of her wardrobe. Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John The latest reports of the New York State Department of Labor reflect the meagerness of the supply. Mobilizing Woman-Power The paleness of his cheek increased, the languor of his frame, the meagerness of his form, the inability of his nature! Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story He laughingly ascribes the meagerness of his output to indolence; but there may be a deeper reason, of which he is unconscious. A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky They felt that sufficient demand had already been made upon their scant purses, considering the meagerness of the entertainment, and they dreaded being lured to further extravagance. The Elusive Pimpernel The outstanding notes of his boyhood had been poverty and meagerness. The Vision Splendid The burro was packed with a prospector's outfit startlingly real in its pathetic meagerness. The Heritage of the Sioux |
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