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1 The kettle was soon boiled, and we sat down to our meagre fare with hearty appetites.
2 These tales sufficed for popular edification; they provided but meagre fare for the intelligence of the learned.
3 It would also, though, highlight the meagre fare they have foisted on their audiences in recent times.
4 On this meagre fare he had subsisted.
5 He succeeded in bringing in a fine large one, which formed a welcome addition to our meagre fare .
6 The remainder of us, namely, Mr. Bourne, Jackey, and myself, did not lose our health on this meagre fare .
7 Poets, dramatists, and novelists form the chief portion of the somewhat meagre fare which is specifically permitted to his disciples.
8 The room was so clean and pretty, and the hot meal so good after the meagre fare of the last fortnight.
9 The "lily bread" of the Pharaohs would have seemed meagre fare to people accustomed from early times to wheaten bread.
10 Having or affecting an appetite, she set the example to L'Isle, and urged him to make up for the meagre fare of the day.
11 She did this to prevent the cook and her children from eking out their meagre fare with the remains of the gravy and other scrapings.
12 As he placed them before her and saw the movement of disgust which Dolores could not repress, Aubry was almost ashamed of the meagre fare .
13 This ceremony over, they returned to the house of the Green Wolf, where a supper, still of the most meagre fare , was set before them.
14 Meagre fare , moreover, had the effect of accentuating Mrs. Rastall-Retford's always rather pronounced irritability.
15 "Is the steward so miserably paid that he is forced to content himself with such meagre fare ? "
16 "Only," said Kenelm, "if you preserve the appetite I have lost, I fear you will find meagre fare to-day.
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