Significados de miserable pittance em inglês

The last day I can stretch my miserable pittance to is the first of February.

She passed her last years in Bologna, subsisting on a miserable pittance earned by covering buttons.

She received her fifteen sous with humble thankfulness, in constant apprehension of losing even that miserable pittance.

For how could Luttrell support them all on a miserable pittance of five hundred pounds a year?

They would have bought me out for a miserable pittance of a hundred and fifty thousand or so.

On a miserable pittance of fifteen hundred francs a year, he led a weary existence, full of anxiety.

Part of these gain a miserable pittance as agricultural labourers, and live in a condition infinitely worse than serfage.

He had been paid at the office that night, and he had the money- aweek'smiserable pittance-inhis pocket.

There are other ways in which I can at least earn as much as the miserable pittance doled out to me here.

The educated man who accepts three hundred a-year in the Church is not recompensed, or considered to be recompensed, by this miserable pittance.

His father was a small farmer in the neighborhood of Saint-Flour, scraping a miserable pittance from the ground for the maintenance of his family.

So sordidly avaricious was the other, that he refused to advance this miserable pittance, though he knew his own life depended upon his compliance.

I shall never be strong again; the hard grinding for a miserable pittance gives me no chance to get nourishing food and recover my strength.

Things are dearer here than in London, you know; you could not live on such miserable pittances.

They had things called Old Age Pensions then: miserable pittances for worn-out old laborers to die on.

"It's a miserable pittance, but I owe it to my poor children to take it."