Meanings of scanty rations in English

He apologized for the scanty rations, promising some beef for dinner.

This he spent in supplementing the scanty rations served out.

They walked all the way, living frugally on scanty rations.

Thanks to Pugatchéf, I had a pretty good horse, with which I shared my scanty rations.

With care, we've about two days' very scanty rations here, and only beans and coffee, at that.

Provisions were now so reduced, that, notwithstanding their scanty rations, there was only enough left for one week.

Tons of meat were found putrefying while the citizens, and even the garrison, had been starving on scanty rations.

Amid the shell-fire, the scanty rations, the enteric and the dysentery, one ray of comfort had always brightened the garrison.

According to his version they started from the cabins on the sixteenth day of December, with scanty rations for six days.

At the same time they ate the scanty rations they carried in their knapsacks, and wondered what had become of the wagons.

Horses and men alike were broken down by fatigue, loss of sleep, and scanty rations, and the long rest had restored their strength.

They were down on their scanty rations, their hot brown water, miscalled coffee, their incessant marching, the futility of chasing De Wet, everything.

Every petty breach of discipline was availed of to punish them, by sending them down to work the crank, and reducing their scanty rations.