The poor child flushed painfully while admitting the meagerness of her wardrobe.

The outstanding notes of his boyhood had been poverty and meagerness.

Oh, the poverty of mortal mind, the sad meagerness of the human soul!

It is almost shames me as to the meagerness of the gift I bring.

Peter had a glimpse of its poverty and its meagerness.

Perhaps its meagerness had killed it- Isawtraces of less than a dozen buildings.

It does not relish living perpetually on the ragged edge of a scant, uncertain meagerness.

The meagerness of that reply told it all.

The meagerness of my output was beneath remark.

The latest reports of the New York State Department of Labor reflect the meagerness of the supply.

The creative power inherent in every child's mind filled out the meagerness of the setting of them.

This is proved in the behavior of the committee and in the meagerness of the public's interest.

Why shouldn't she want life's fullness instead of life's meagerness and its breadth instead of its bigotries?

I thought Marguerite could not fail to see the meagerness of Leeson's inner life, and I was wrong again.

When Elsa had begun housekeeping for the men she had protested over the meagerness and the simplicity of the food supplies.

She could not improvise ornaments and graces; and, when she came on, the unusual meagerness of her style astonished the audience.