1
What this man offered him was the merest pittance.
2
It is true that he succeeded in placing an occasional article, for which he would be paid the merest pittance.
3
Some people take advantage of their need, and, because they are poor, make them work for the merest pittance in the world.
4
She would have given everything she possessed to them, keeping the merest pittance for herself, if fate and domestic tyranny had allowed.
5
The wage was, as it is to-day, the merest pittance; but any wage whatever was an advance upon the conditions of earlier servitude.
6
He professed himself willing to do any work required of him, for the merest pittance and some kind of roof over his head.
7
"He has the merest pittance of a salary," said the Deacon, "and I knew the twenty dollars would be acceptable to him.