| Through the heat of this long ride, we felt our total lack of water and the meagreness of our supply of food. |
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| True believers can even take encouragement from the meagreness of so much of the action in Coimbra. |
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| However, the commissioners admitted such compulsion was rarely realistic, considering the meagreness of most women's wages. |
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| He is quite content as the job satisfaction eclipses the meagreness of income. |
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| Especially when we know the importance of the issues and the relative meagreness of our collective resources. |
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| Another parameter which affects the price is the low number of copies printed combined precisely with the meagreness of the market. |
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| On Tuesday evening a telegraphic despatch was published, but, owing to the meagreness of its contents, did not remove the apprehensions previously existing. |
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| We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness. |
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| Public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows. |
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| He discovers in the light and majesty of the divine his own poverty and nothingness and is thus torn between the contemplation of the greatness of God and his own meagreness. |
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| The meagreness of its natural resources partially explains Italy's slow transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy, which began only in the late 19th century. |
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| What does seem to be changing, on the other hand, is Africa's determination, despite the meagreness of its means to continue the fight on any front other than assistance. |
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| The meagreness of successive harvests, right up to the death of the king in September 1715, joined with the general economic situation due to the long war of 11 years, would lead to a difficult recovery for France. |
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| This meagreness of musical text is, paradoxically, ideal for the realisation of certain elegant arabesques, in the style of certain harpsichord pieces by Louis Couperin. |
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