They then formed themselves into messes of six each, and next morning drew their scanty pittance of food.

But, besides this, my scanty pittance did not afford me that nourishment which my hard night's travel needed.

Merchants, nobles, official personages, were all obliged to assist in eking out the scanty pittance allowed by the sovereign.

Instead of having magazines filled with provisions we have a scanty pittance scattered here and there in the distant States.

Instead of having magazines filled with provisions, we have a scanty pittance scattered here and there in the different states.

For the poor she felt the tenderest charity, and robbed herself of her scanty pittance of bread to feed them.

The observatory is nominally supported by the Rajah of Jeypore, who doles out a too scanty pittance to his scientific corps.