| 单词 | meagreness |
| 例句 | I mean that the purpose of quizzing is to discover the answers, to work with meagreness, to build sufficiency out of insufficiency. Question time: my life as a quiz obsessive 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Despite its economic and aesthetic meagreness, its citizens have high aspirations. What George Eliot’s ‘provincial’ novels can teach today’s divided Britain 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z His hair was very thick, and apparently coarse; his arms long and powerful; and his legs, notwithstanding the meagreness of his body, furnished with very respectable calves. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z It is due to Clement to say that doubtless he devised a much more thorough reform, and the meagreness of the outcome is probably attributable to the final revision under John XXII. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z They feel that this life has an unaccountable poverty and meagreness in it. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z A realization of its meagreness and emptiness stole over her till she could hardly keep the tears back. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z Schleiermacher could not contemplate the wretched meagreness and degradation of his age without being moved as by 'a heavenly impulse.' Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Long hours and poor food seemed of small moment to her compared to the miserable meagreness of the life of the girls. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z I blush for my meagreness of response to all your social lights and shadows, your rich record of adventures.... The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z I had put it to him that the meagreness of my personal experiences had, so far, tended to the skimping of my art. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z The meagreness, the stinginess, the perpetual expectation of a sixpence, used to exasperate me. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z His types in figures of Christ, the Virgin and angels are not of the highest order; and a defect of drawing, which has been often pointed out, is the meagreness of his hands and feet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z German philosophers who may accidentally cast a glance over these pages will superciliously shrug their shoulders at the meagreness and incompleteness of all that which I here offer. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Those early intervals, dire to the soul of every novice like herself, when male adherence and escort failed through meagreness of acquaintanceship, Courtlandt had filled with the supporting relief of his presence and his attentions. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z His faithful comrades drank instead; and when they had grown gladsome they began to embrace and kiss him, and to wonder at his meagreness and the marks of sickness which he bore on his face. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The meagreness of the resources was now seen at a glance, for though a portion of the party was pretty well-armed, the others were helpless. Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake 2011-07-15T02:00:21.010Z Indeed, the contents were rather disappointing from their meagreness. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z I only pick up an extra fine blossom now and again as I stroll along, which may account for the meagreness of my bunch,” exhibiting a small handful containing some dozen of stalks. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Mr. Ellis too has printed the Epistle to the Galatians from the same source, and this specimen also produces much the same impression of meagreness and imperfection. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z The meagreness of the earlier recorders contrasts with the more impressive detail of later enlarged and thoughtful minds. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z It was as if her eyes had suddenly been opened to all the intolerable meagreness of her old-time life. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z One glance more I took at the dead man's face in that vague foredawn, and its swart meagreness seemed to have passed off under death's composing hand. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z This was Job's account of him; and, to curious enquirers, it was provoking both for its meagreness and its truth. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z He was somewhat above the middle stature, and might have been called well made, had it not been for his meagreness, which was rather remarkable. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z This was Job’s account of him; and, to curious inquirers, it was provoking both for its meagreness and its truth. Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z The meagreness of the furniture and tableware never struck her so forcibly as now, lost in the big new house. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Still, the comparative meagreness of the panorama did not affect our spirits, nor detract in any appreciable degree from the completeness of the expedition. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z Averse to every ornament, they had selected a costume which merely served to make the meagreness of their appearance more disadvantageously conspicuous. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Thence they sailed for New Zealand, the most truly insular large mass of land in the whole world, supplied accordingly with a fauna and flora of most surprising meagreness and poverty of species. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z I hinted at the chief cause of this meagreness and obscurity when I said, just now, that Red Eagle could not write. Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. 2010-12-20T17:12:28.183Z Possibly, too, the meagreness will seem less and the gloom will be illuminated if the need of the real being also the ideal, is brought to mind. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker The meagreness of the company compelled several of the principal performers to play inferior parts, in addition to those against which their names appeared in the bill. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 There is a trying meagreness in the landscape. The Story of Malta This fellow was tall and about forty years of age, fully justifying his sinister nickname by a meagreness impossible to describe, but which might almost be termed osteologic. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 The child was about four years old, and her countenance would have been a very charming one but for its sickly pallor and extreme meagreness. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 Here in the hills where the very meagreness makes a law of hospitality he had never heard of a traveller who asked a night's lodging being turned away. The Tempering It was not much of a display, but its very meagreness made it pathetic. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 It is the trick of those who spend their lives in plumbing the unfathomable; it translates the meagreness and vacuity of their lore. Love's Usuries The narrowness and the meagreness of their lives, the lack of access to the highest interests seems to drive them oftentimes into the coarser forms of indulgence which are their undoing. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day The meagreness of the illustrations is due to the army order forbidding cameras being taken to the front. Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division All the time he was repeating polite apologies for the meagreness of his fare. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois But he had the merit of attempting, though not with much success, some innovations on the meagreness of the established model. A Short History of French Literature Owing to the meagreness of their food these animals are usually thin and small, but are quickly restored when placed on richer grounds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Upon a consideration of the meagreness of our exchequer, we came to the resolution that it would be better to purchase what we required at some secondhand shop. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Thus St. Paul states it with vigour, but thereby only makes all the more apparent the meagreness of his reply. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition But notwithstanding this apparent meagreness of accommodation, luxury in architecture was making rapid strides in the land. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Owing to the meagreness of the record, a complete list of the holders of the benefice is not to be expected. The Annals of Willenhall "Half a platoon of cavalry," replied Sobieska gravely, thinking of the meagreness of their force for the occasion. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Its colour was red, its size immense; its excessive meagreness showed that it had been wandering about p. 235homeless for some time past. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] For, with all the noble spirit manifested in government and in social life, western Europe was semibarbaric in the meagreness of the articles of material wealth there represented. History of Human Society A whole garment sometimes covers meagreness and malformation; through a rent sleeve a fair round arm may be revealed. Shirley Much, I know, has been supplied by our hymnology, which has progressed nobly in proportion as the meagreness of our liturgical provision has been realized. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer A thousand times I have gone over it to myself, only to be disappointed at its meagreness. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The absence of any hierarchy or centralised organisation enabled it to spread freely, and the very meagreness of its doctrine, and its freedom from ritual, were also in its favour. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems Be it remembered that the truly simple life is not gained by meagreness of possessions and interests, but by singleness of aim controlling a seemingly infinite number of detailed means. Is civilization a disease? Officers have been paid small salaries and have been allowed to make up for the meagreness of their stipends by exacting all sorts of fees and tips. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Confronted with an existence pared down to the satisfying of its necessities, he had loathed the idea of luxury while he hated the daily meagreness. The Prisoner Others, again, who are not unwilling to believe that the phenomena are produced by the action of intelligences other than that of the medium, abandon further study because of the meagreness of the intellectual results. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Her learning always had insulted his own meagreness of information and aptness in repartee. The River Prophet He described these objects with a felicity which made him ashamed of the comparative meagreness and poverty of his own descriptions in the 'Bridgewater Treatise,' which had cost him hours and days of labor. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Alas, how often historical statements are thus reduced to meagreness, after the hypothetical or ill-supported part has been sifted out! The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest He was wearing khaki shorts and puttees; even the latter, tightly fitting, did little to disguise the meagreness of his calves. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force His youthful imagination is, in Lowell’s happy phrase, a veritable Aladdin’s lamp, with which he transforms the meagreness of his surroundings into the splendid luxuries of a castle in Spain. Child-life in Art Disappointment at its meagreness helped to incite him to schemes for the capture of the Mexico fleet. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography For the meagreness of the paper in which I have attempted to describe it as it occurs in Scotland, I have but one apology to offer. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed "If he wrote a letter at all, he ought to have told us all about it," said Mat, disappointed at the meagreness of the news from Dock. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World The meagreness and uncertainty of his salary, which was granted by yearly votes of the Assembly, gave color to the charge that he abused his official position to improve his income. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America In order to pass the time and keep up their courage, the Dutch sometimes had entertainments, at which the cheerfulness of the partakers had to make up for the meagreness of the fare. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II For half-an-hour Uncle Dan listened, highly diverted, to the chatter of the girls, and it never once occurred to him to remember the meagreness and paltriness of their condition. A Venetian June When one considers the largeness of the works to which Paine has devoted himself 163 chiefly, he can be excused for the meagreness and comparative unimportance of his smaller works for piano and vocal solo. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions I have really seen whole houses, little more than shells, reduced to meagreness by the pocket-knife. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War But in a foreign land we try to find our compensation for the meagreness of our data by the compactness of the generalisation which our imperfect sympathy itself helps us to form. Creative Unity This very meagreness, however, is strong evidence that the measures were enacted without much friction. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa But the meagreness of the number of ascertained facts did not prevent much speculation among a people eager to seek the causes of things. 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 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. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Helena had expended no less thought on these than on her own, and none whatever on the meagreness of Don Roberto's check. The Californians "Yes," she says again, and for the first time is struck by the wretched meagreness of her replies. April's Lady A Novel “I have as good a right to blame his Majesty for the meagreness of the help his followers have afforded me.” !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War I confess to you I felt mortified with the comparative meagreness of our show, because it contrasts poorly with the abundance exhibited by nations far inferior to us in skill and enterprise. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland But if he was really such to her why could he not then play the Deliverer in fact, rescue her from untended illness, from meagreness and waste? The Lovely Lady But what Tyndall overlooked was the fact that the meagreness of his recreations was the very element that attracted Spencer to them. Damn! A Book of Calumny 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. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 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. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Was he not, then, justified in living his own life in the best possible way, atoning for the meagreness of his talent by the honourableness of his quest? Roads from Rome And this austere meagreness gave it a certain dignity of its own as of a place where nothing was allowed to distract the mind from the serious business in hand. Leaves from a Field Note-Book Mrs. Vanderlyn was plainly disappointed at the meagreness of Anna's family history, and did badly with her lesson; but she could not possibly complain. The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day Compare him with Shelley on the same subject, and you will see the difference between meagreness and intensity of feeling. Practical Essays The room within was almost horrible in its meagreness. A People's Man And here too I began to be more and more surprised at the meagreness of the population of the country. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two The very few public dinners that are held are served with ostentatious meagreness to escape criticism. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II That accounts for the comparative poverty of animal and vegetable life in England, and still more for its extreme paucity and meagreness in Ireland and the Highlands. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science This meagreness was not due to a disinclination on Manning's part, but only to the fact that he never quite grasped my interest in mere surroundings. The Killer This meagreness of knowledge in all things pertaining to numbers is often found to be sharply emphasized in the names adopted by savages for their numeral words. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development She had been astonished at the meagreness of the supplies she found, but made no comment. Mrs. Red Pepper An habitual gloom, and the meagreness of grief, during the commonwealth, had changed a countenance once the most lively; and her eyes, whose dark and dazzling lustre was ever celebrated, then only shone in tears. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Through the heat of this long ride, we felt our total lack of water and the meagreness of our supply of food. The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones The illustrations throughout are excellent, but the coloured geological map which serves as a frontispiece is a model of what such a map should be, avoiding the opposite evils of overcrowding and meagreness. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force I was alone, disrobed, hair flying, studying my shoulders, deploring their meagreness—a true picture of despair! Parisian Points of View Many an educational reformer has had cause to wring his hands over the meagreness of attendance in days gone by. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Here my scanty record must end, unless I may be permitted to supplement its meagreness by one or two personal—not to say egotistical—reminiscences. John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors She, too, approached, a little behind him, but obscuring his dull meagreness, for she was a head taller, and a bold and challenging figure. London River This, however, is due more to the meagreness of the language of that day than to the insignificance of the seventeen kings. The Awakening of China The canoe meant travel, the meagreness of the outfits either rapid or short travel, the two steel traps travel beyond the sources of supply. The Silent Places At the waist a plethora of petticoats begins, spreading the skirts to inordinate width and emphasising the meagreness above. A Wanderer in Holland Little beyond the most meagre of diet can he commonly provide them, and it is the joint anxiety of ensuring even this, that wears and disfeatures him and them, as much doubtless as its meagreness. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees Already the foliage of them seemed a little tattered and thin, and their meagreness of vesture and solitary appearance depressed the spectator again before she arrived at them. Children of the Mist Though she understood well enough that her way of escape lay in making a rich marriage, it was impressed upon her that the meagreness of her dot would make her efforts in this direction difficult. The Inner Shrine But we must not quarrel with richness of subject-matter at a time when tenuity of purpose and meagreness of motive seem to be becoming the dominant notes of contemporary fiction. Reviews In the first form of the ten, which composed the first edition of 1597, they are more like notes of analysis or tables of contents; they are austere even to meagreness. Bacon And intellectual in-breeding was thinning it to attenuation—to a bloodless meagreness in which they, who composed it, conceived a mournful pride. The Common Law It is the vexation of this conviction that hath brought my face to the meagreness and sallow tint that accused the scorching sun of Barbary. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Eustace strode down the long room looking neither to right nor left, moving with a free, British arrogance that served to emphasize somewhat cruelly the meagreness and infirmity of the man behind him. Greatheart And the solitariness and meagreness of his life in all its personal and domestic aspects appalled her. The Testing of Diana Mallory Nothing could more forcibly show the meagreness of our information regarding the Gospels than that such a phrase is considered of value as evidence for one of them. A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays 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. Reveries of a Schoolmaster Such a style is capable of great swiftness of movement, and is well suited to rapid description and narrative; but at times roughness or meagreness results. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The worst possible reporter is one who has a little talent, and depends upon that to make up for the meagreness of his information. Famous Americans of Recent Times The meagreness of her parchment flesh, the thickening mesh of wrinkles, the snow-white hair struck him with almost novel force. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People And what was really resentment against the meagreness of his own lot showed itself, as usual, in jealousy. Fenwick's Career What it failed in was the education and development of character; and this was the result of the increasing meagreness of its writing and preaching. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 The meagreness of the earliest entries and the crudeness of the language, together with occasional picturesque force, indicate that many of them were drawn from current song or tradition. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Then he had apologised for the meagreness of the meal. Where the Trail Divides Delay in such a moment served but to increase the evil; and when I fled, meagreness and penury were the ordinary attendants of my course. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 There is no pause, no meagreness, no inanimateness, but a flow, a redundance and volubility like that of a stream or of a rolling-stone. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits An equally potent cause for his resignation was the meagreness of his salary of $3500. Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch They were present to me now, but coolly and sanely in all their meagreness. Greenmantle He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness. John Barleycorn He liked its very brevity and meagreness, and there seemed to him an exquisite modesty in its saying nothing from the young girl herself. Roderick Hudson Bessie had not realized how inglorious their meagreness would be, until Mrs. Grey, at the daughter's table, grew unctuously reminiscent about the mother's. Southern Lights and Shadows She was firmly built, yet all her lines subdued themselves to that meagreness which ever dwells afar from beauty. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life But the Jews had their delights, their indulgences, their transports, notwithstanding the imperfection of their benevolence, the meagreness of their truth, and the cumbersomeness of their ceremonials. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Also, my attitude may be considered, in part, as a reaction from my childhood's meagreness and my childhood's excessive toil. John Barleycorn After reading a treatise of Augustin's, one is astounded by the intellectual meagreness of these last pagans. Saint Augustin There seemed to be two forms of weakness—redundancy on the one hand and meagreness on the other. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 The meagreness of his countenance renders it very flexible; but not unfrequently he carries this flexibility to grimace. Paris as It Was and as It Is And singularly enough, it seems, with all its meagreness, to pass easily into an ostentatious display. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 It was allowed to grow downward until it scraped the back of Newgag's collar, a device for concealing the meagreness of his neck. Tales from Bohemia Laughter had speedily evaporated; and, his harsher mood returning upon him, Iglesias found a certain bitter enjoyment in setting forth the extreme meagreness of his life before this light-hearted, unsubstantial piece of womanhood. The Far Horizon The very meagreness and minuteness of the physical witnesses to a former condition of things cease to discourage, and actually become an incitement more effective than bulkier relics might impart. A Study of Hawthorne And yet could we see how all the forces of heaven and earth unite to shape the particle that floats idly by us, we should never see meagreness more. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis One of the earliest of his plays is the Suppliants, little read owing to the uncertainty of the text and the meagreness of the dramatic interest. Authors of Greece 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. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII But no "educational meagreness" can keep the feet of some climbers off the educational ladder. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman He had witnessed in his youth the commencement of the dramatic art in Spain; the poetical poverty of which, as well as the meagreness of the theatrical decorations, are very humorously described by him. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature In the meagreness of their pay they thought themselves entitled to the plunder of Louisbourg, which they imagined to be a seat of wealth and luxury. A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II Animals of this species, perhaps on account of their extreme meagreness, swim badly; and consequently it was saved with some difficulty. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Now the essence of those instructions was comprised in that little sentence, which has been so much criticized for meagreness and insufficiency. Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 In truth, though there are delightful exceptions, and nearly every part of the book suggests interesting questions, a desperate meagreness and baldness does extend over considerable tracts of the story. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 The meagreness of his record of Johnson's talk at this season may have been due, as seems to have happened before, to too much drinking. Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 The incipient stoutness of limb contrasted strangely with the drawn meagreness of his body, which was contracted by want of food. The Sowers But here the meagreness of the Moslem annals compels us to lament the premature death of Conde. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 I make the allusion in apology and excuse for the meagreness of what I have to bestow for thy many heroic services. The Prince of India — Volume 01 What scant hair he possessed, carefully disposed to cover its meagreness, was grey, and its color permeated, suggested, the tone of his thin face. Cytherea The reason, then, of our weakness and our leanness and the meagreness of our fruitage, can be nothing else than because we do not fulfill the conditions on which He promises to make us strong. The Theology of Holiness If, however, there are more interesting temples in Italy, there are few more richly and variously scenic and splendid, the comparative meagreness of the architectural idea being overlaid by a marvellous wealth of ingenious detail. Italian Hours That he looked miserable—that he was thin to meagreness, I had not seen. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story And somehow the simple melody helped to conceal the meagreness of the childish words. A Prisoner in Fairyland This apology we may make, if an apology be needed, for what modern readers may think the meagreness of the love-passages in Scott. Waverley We stood dismayed at the horror of such a scientific murder and the meagreness of the materials to work on in tracing it out. The Dream Doctor Though its walls were narrow, and its furniture simple even to meagreness, it was a palace in her regard to the luxurious chambers she had left. The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring "Yes, and by the meagreness of the facts at my command." The Leavenworth Case To her, if he mentioned his diet, its meagreness was emphasized rather. Balzac The Die-Hards are so tiny, so poor, so pitifully handicapped, and yet so bold in their meagreness. Huntingtower But his two years of missionary experience had made him feel the hardship, the isolation, the meagreness, of the life which she would have to share with him. The Prospector Then we cripple their efficiency through the meagreness of their pay. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mrs. Penniman's announcement struck her by its richness, not by its meagreness. Washington Square The meagreness, the stinginess, the perpetual expectation of a sixpence, used to exasperate me. The Point of View "Oh, but it was the bare, naked, pinching meagreness of it!" On the Makaloa Mat A miserable contrast he presented, in my eyes, to the Etonian brilliancy of my favourite master; and beside, he could not disguise from my hourly notice the poverty and meagreness of his understanding. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater The meagreness or negativeness of their content has been in an inverse ratio to their power. The Republic The meagreness of our information concerning the historic career of Jesus stands in striking contrast with the mass of information which lies within our reach concerning the primitive character of Christologic speculation. The Unseen World and Other Essays |
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