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Meanings of paltry sum in English

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Usage of paltry sum in English
1
That paltry sum was all that stood between them and financial disaster.
Do you take this rebel?
2
FROG.-Whyall this higgling with thy friend about such a paltry sum?
The History of John Bull
3
Now Fin wouldn't go home with the paltry sum of £5.
The Guardian
4
Surely he hasn't come to Chicago with only this paltry sum!
Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck
5
It is worth ten times that paltry sum; would be dirt cheap at twenty.
Christmas with Grandma Elsie
6
They will get a paltry sum of two hundred dollars.
The Fugitive Blacksmith / or, Events in the History of James W. ...
7
Thankfully will they pay the paltry sum he claims as a recompense for his services.
Friends and Neighbors; Or, Two Ways of Living in the World
8
Valentine, if the paltry sum of two thousand francs were objected to for an instant.
File No. 113
9
What was the use of returning to England with that paltry sum, he had asked.
The Moon Rock
10
People never miss what they never had, and they will not miss this paltry sum.
Bessie's Fortune: A Novel
11
He distributed the paltry sum among the attendants of the bath and the slaves who brought it.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
12
His prodigious 4to was published by subscription, and given away at the paltry sum of one guinea.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
13
Well, the paltry sum of thirty thousand, if demanded to-morrow, may involve the loss of my fortune.
A Young Girl's Wooing
14
Five or six shillings was all that the poor lass possessed, but they took that paltry sum.
Stories of the Border Marches
15
Zoya's grandmother had admitted to her what a paltry sum she had gotten for the ruby necklace.
Zoya
16
A paltry sum for a knight's life.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
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