Both Uses of
meager
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Chauvelin was now sitting close to the table; he had taken off his hat, and Marguerite could just see the outline of his thin profile and pointed chin, as he bent over his meagre supper.†
Chpt 24 *meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
- The road lay some distance from the sea, bordered on either side by shrubs and stunted trees, sparsely covered with meagre foliage, all turning away from the North, with their branches looking in the semi-darkness, like stiff, ghostly hair, blown by a perpetual wind.†
Chpt 27