All 3 Uses of
meager
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.†
Chpt 1.5 *meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
- He looked at them, and saw in them, without knowing it, the slow sure filing down of misery-worn face and figure, that was to make the meagreness of Frenchmen an English superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years.†
Chpt 2.8meagreness = the characteristic of lacking quantity or quality
- Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meagre children; and lovers, with such a world around them and before them, loved and hoped.†
Chpt 2.22meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.