meagerest

She would accept no more than the meagerest allowance, and went down into the Latin Quarter on her own, batching with two other American girls.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

Today's monks and hermits were inspired by St. Anthony, the third-century Egyptian who went into the desert and, legend has it, shut himself in a cave, allowing himself no company and only the meagerest amounts of bread and water for 20 years.

Open Seas 2009

Of his life in Paris there are only the meagerest reports, and he records no observations upon political affairs.

Washington Irving 2004

Ewell's instructions from Jackson were of the meagerest: He was to watch Banks and, presumably, was authorized to assail an exposed force if he could do so without great risks; but how was Ewell to determine the risks?

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Ewell's instructions from Jackson were of the meagerest: He was to watch Banks and, presumably, was authorized to assail an exposed force if he could do so without great risks; but how was Ewell to determine the risks?

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

His meagerest efforts to move were enough to spin him wildly, and several moments passed before he coordinated himself to move in one direction.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

The platform swooped through the forest, darting in and out among the trees and missing some of them by the meagerest of margins.

Trek to Madworld Goldin, Stephen 1978

The troops were barely able to keep alive on the meagerest of rations; recruiting had to be pronounced as worse than slow; the enemy was close to victory in Carolina and suspiciously astir in New York; financial ruin apparently hung on the response of the States to the plan for calling in the old, discredited currency; the Army remained too weak for an offensive.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The troops were barely able to keep alive on the meagerest of rations; recruiting had to be pronounced as worse than slow; the enemy was close to victory in Carolina and suspiciously astir in New York; financial ruin apparently hung on the response of the States to the plan for calling in the old, discredited currency; the Army remained too weak for an offensive.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The troops were barely able to keep alive on the meagerest of rations; recruiting had to be pronounced as worse than slow; the enemy was close to victory in Carolina and suspiciously astir in New York; financial ruin apparently hung on the response of the States to the plan for calling in the old, discredited currency; the Army remained too weak for an offensive.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968