mesquin

"mesquin" treatment of dividing his tower into storeys of equal height.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

“Yá miskím” = O poor devil; mesquin, meschino, words evidently derived from the East.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Here also we looked into a window instead of opening the door with a silver key, and the mesquin appearance of all within prevented my regretting the necessity of economy.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

She saw the pinched and mesquin faces of the women.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

She saw the pinched and mesquin faces of the women.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

The features are chiselled by a small _mesquin_ personality, and what might have been a fine statue if carried out by Donatello has been ruined by his assistants.

Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905

I have indeed sometimes wondered what would have happened if Chateaubriand had gone on writing novels, and had devoted to fiction the talent which he wasted on the _mesquin_ [334] politics of the France of his later days and on the interesting but restricted and egotistic _Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe_.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Flaubert was mesquin like the Norman tower, but these are, as the

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Here they settled themselves in such comfort and luxury that the Lords of the land would come daily to eat at their table, even the thirsty and those who went forth betimes, [FN#48] and what remained of the meat was distributed to the mesquin and the miserable; also every poor stranger lodging in the Mosques would come to the house and find a meal.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Lords of the land and the Chiefs of the city flocked out to meet him, and the town-folk followed one another like men riding on pillions [FN#156] to salute him, and the poor and the mesquin congratulated him on his safety and at last the Wazir made his appearance.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855