maigres

Au petit hobereau, tyran de ses maigres champs, résista

Literary translation (English) Rene Meertens 2010

D'autre part, les contenus proposés sont encore assez maigres.

Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

All the _jours de fête_, holidays, are very judiciously abolished, and likewise _les jours gras, et maigres_, (Flesh and meagre days.)

A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss

We always recognized her _jours maigres_ by the quantity of cakes and pastry we saw carried to her room just before dinner, to which dinner she came in nun-like gray silk, saintly coiffure, with ascetic pallor on cheeks wont to bloom with roses de

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

On commettrait une lourde faute en laissant la Porte atermoyer plus longtemps et épuiser toutes les forces des diverses nationalités auxquelles elle refuse de donner les maigres satisfactions fixées par le traité de Berlin.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

Combien d'heures nous avons passés ensemble, causant, toujours causant, dans votre belle maison de Fontainebleau, si française avec sa terrasse en pierre et son jardin avec ses gazons maigres et ses allées sablonneuses qui serpentent parmi les grands arbres forestiers.

The Lake 1892

We dine at a restaurateur's, after dinner I write, and then we go out again, and afterwards sup, but on what? on jours gras, half a fowl, or a small slice of roast meat, on jours maigres a little fish, and then we go to sleep.

The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang A 1864

The necessities arising from our conquest of the country had made it a revictualling post for our columns, and a trial had just been made there of a new sort of provision, described as rations maigres.

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859

We are going this evening, "said she, after a pause," to Madame d'Aligré's, who gives charming petits soupers, though they are rather maigres, but that does not signify, for she assembles the best and wealthiest people in Paris to eat them.

Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

And though some of his days may be what the French call jours maigres, yet there will happen no more of those than will be necessary for his health, and to carry off the excesses of the days of plenty, when our travellers will be apt to indulge their lawless appetites too much.

The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published 1841