He steered clear of politics, and supplemented his meager income by writing book reviews and the occasional short story published in local magazines.
He was making only a meager income from freelance book-reviewing, and this impulsive purchase left a family of six with $200 to live on.
Kiera's dark eyes ran hurriedly across the spines of a large French language section that occupied two-thirds of a seven-foot-tall cedar bookshelf, two rows of Arabic volumes, and a relatively meager row of English books on the bottom shelf.
This is not meager praise, since Bulgakov's book juggles a dizzying assortment of time frames, including the last days of Jesus, the subject of the Master's play.
Was it because the sales of Doniger's book were so meager that it didn't justify continuing the case they were contesting in court, a case they would almost certainly have won, given the generally liberal track record of India's higher courts?
Deeply concerned about our education, Mom figured out how to pay for the books out of her meager piano-lesson earnings.
Justice Thomas describes his intellectual journey, and his struggle to keep body and soul together on meager government pay, in some of the book's most absorbing and self-critical chapters.
In addition to wall labels, there should be many more historical documents — books, journals, posters — than the meager assortment on view.
She was so far beyond the meager parenting skills I had acquired from multiple books.
By Shoko Wanger March 29, 2009 Dennis Kucinich, whose autobiography was published in 2007, has filed suit against Phoenix Books and Audio, Inc., for having made "negligible effort to promote the book"; in December 2007, the publisher blamed the book's meager sales on the congressman, saying, "I've been exceptionally disappointed in the man".
