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Meanings of pitiful sum in English

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Usage of pitiful sum in English
1
The pitiful sum represented to the artist two months of his meager salary.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
2
It was a crowbar, that pitiful sum of money accumulated by two years of crucifixion.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
3
But he was starving now; and the pitiful sum offered would give bread for a few days.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
4
Not all the economy of her girlhood could screw half the things she wanted out of that pitiful sum.
The Golden Calf
5
On the one side the twenty rupees-a pitiful sum-promisedby the sahib: and who knows he will keep his promise?
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
6
Everybody loves, and wants to serve me, and I cannot earn this pitiful sum to learn and do what I want.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
7
For two whole days, and with every effort we could make, we collected but the pitiful sum of one hundred dollars!
The Life of General Francis Marion
8
Fifty cents is the pitiful sum for which our citizens will have it put in their power to hear this wonderful combination of talent.
The Young Musician; Or, Fighting His Way
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