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    1. I had to trust my youthful judgement, a judgement based on the meagre sum of knowledge gleaned so far about my captors


    2. I discovered new horizons, and daily I journeyed across the plains of my meagre captivity in search of the treasure caves of Ali-Baba and his forty thieves


    3. My experience of life might seem deplorably meagre to many, but still had those moments to cherish, and I believed, sitting in the back of that van with Robbie, that I would have a life full of such joys


    4. We had no choice but to abandon our meagre collection of belongings as we were hooded and hurried down into another waiting van


    5. Between them they filled in the meagre information Kara had


    6. I ate their meagre meals in the


    7. During the day the young man went off to commit his musical crimes in shopping malls and bus stations, only to find that he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers and flustered financial advisers because Cyberia had scorched their whites


    8. More out of frustration than hope, the soldier started to press the buttons randomly, and as he did so the door to his meagre little motel room crashed open and in sprang the dog with eyes the size of sparkling Catherine Wheels


    9. Apart from a few casual jobs that he managed to get during the summer season, when Britain’s residential masses poured out of their suburban homes to spend two weeks basking in the melange of weather systems that blow in across the great western seas, he spent most of the year fishing from beaches and rocky breakwaters, eking out a meagre living by selling sea bass to local restaurants and pubs


    10. Terry pretty well disappeared from public life, earning a meagre living from his pub until that went into liquidation too

    11. They bought a little cottage in the village eked out a meagre living on a residue of royalties gleaned from discount store book sales and the odd spot of lawn mowing that came their way from lineage adverts in the parish newspaper


    12. With the excellent advice of their own legal eagles easily overcoming the meagre resistance offered by the partners Dawson, they successfully overturned the terms of the will and shared the proceeds from the sale of the house, its chattels and the remaining technical gizmos that had not been confiscated by the Old Bill


    13. was my destiny, and earning that meagre income from it my karma


    14. scratch out meagre livings as best they could


    15. some meagre civility when his father asked him to help in the


    16. he had to hand over most of his meagre gains to blustering brokers


    17. buttons randomly, and as he did so the door to his meagre little


    18. cottage in the village eked out a meagre living on a residue of


    19. meagre abilities to read


    20. Chrissie picked at her meagre plateful; she’d not bothered with lunch and her stomach was churning at the thought of the greasy meat

    21. brought their meagre meals through the connecting


    22. outside the south gate, surrounded by a meagre but


    23. beneath the meagre shelter of a stunted oak


    24. After they had eaten a meagre meal of high-energy rations and drunk a small ration of unpleasant tasting water, Chris got everyone organised in taking down the tent and stowing the components into their rucksacks


    25. With all their most brilliant technical know-how they had chosen a meagre human – albeit one who had published work on neuro-physiology – to play a key part in recovering a lost culture


    26. Finally, however, Estrada's meagre ammunition gave out, and flanked by the Chasseurs of Puerto Rico, the six hundred Cubans fell back


    27. Finished with the meagre meal, he took a drink from the bottle of water he was carrying and strode off down the road again


    28. After school was out in the afternoon, I augmented my meagre income by teaching children and young people as an adjunct to their therapy sessions with a clinical psychologist


    29. Now she could not see how her own meagre history could possibly give him the insight he needed to save them


    30. The noise brings out a meagre scattering of figures from the shadows, just as Ralph understands the bird is drawing the villagers’ attention more effectively than any of his shouted commands

    31. Finally, the meagre few left to them are gathered by the well


    32. The last thing he remembered thinking was how small his life was in its own totality, how petty and meagre his fears


    33. meagre act of redress


    34. gnashing teeth and claws, all they came upon was a meagre heap


    35. He doted on Kiril but worried that one day one of the foreigners he ‘entertained’ to supplement his meagre income as a porter, would either bring disease or take him away


    36. Although after the previous twenty-four hours he"d probably used up his meagre reserves of feeling


    37. The following night, it being Friday, Edgar visited an attractive widow prepared to augment her meagre income by pleasuring discreet, clean and healthy men


    38. ―Oh yeah,‖ Jim said, letting his head rest against the meagre cushion again


    39. I had meagre knowledge about the


    40. The strike lasted a few weeks and was eventually resolved with a meagre wage rise

    41. It was a meagre existence only supplemented by hand me down clothes gratefully received from better off relatives


    42. Then, out of the gray mist and the meagre glow of the violet pointer, I saw the Wall


    43. On the small mountain plateau overlooking the valley and Thunder Inlet, Nadya and Harry Travis stood by two horses packed with their meagre belongings


    44. As his strength returned despite the meagre medicine and ghastly food, he finally requested a visit from his country’s consul and from there things happened as it seemed to him, slowly


    45. So the people brought their meagre catches and fed them into the machine, and they were supplied with the most incredible stock they had ever tasted


    46. The streets became reticulated with rivulets of rain, transmogrified into liquid gold by the meagre, other-worldly light of the few fish oil lamps that lined the streets


    47. reveal the meagre contents


    48. clothing, meagre un-tasty food often with roaches, bugs and


    49. As they ate their meagre meal the tiredness


    50. These nations have a rigid social conscience which will provide all our meagre requirements














































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