Neither did I feel that this was some necessary, if meagre, first step for me: learn with and from my first novel, grow in confidence, then "become a novelist".
Those humiliations were the daily lot of Indian traders and labourers in Natal, who had learned to pocket them with the same resignation with which they pocketed their meagre earnings.
It may be a surprise to learn that Bravo isn't at the bottom of the pile, though his meagre save success of 55.4% is way below the league average.
From these meagre references some students have concluded that by 1232 the Chinese had discovered black powder (gunpowder) and had learned to use it to make explosive bombs as well as propulsive charges for rockets.
In the same battle, it is reported, the defenders dropped from the walls of the city a kind of bomb described as "heaven-shaking thunder". From these meagre references some students have concluded that by 1232 the Chinese had discovered black powder (gunpowder) and had learned to use it to make explosive bombs as well as propulsive charges for rockets.
With his meagre resources, it was not possible for Yousaf to afford Zarri's education and pay for her to learn dress making.
The majority of asylum seekers cannot work and are instead forced to rely on meagre state support, leaving people like Célestine, Sandrine and Souzane in an impossible situation, isolated, unhappy, and unable to learn new skills.
The most interesting part of Mr Ramalingam's book, "Aid on the Edge of Chaos", is his discussion of how some agencies are beginning to learn from the way poor people can successfully do difficult things—such as bringing up well-nourished children on meagre incomes without external experts or programmes.
We learnt some valuable life lessons ("food is served from the right-hand side of the guest"), but we spent all our meagre wages on the fuel we needed to get us to work and back.
The Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meagre Means is a grimly repressive religious institution where young Dublin unfortunates endure soulless rote learning and routine beatings with stoicism, on pain of being dispatched to the industrial school, where conditions are even worse.
