| 1. | Whom thus the meager Shadow answerd soon. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | All their meager breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily uphill. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 3. | May.--Let me begin with facts, bare, meager facts, verified by books and figures, and of which there can be no doubt. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | At this point Sola returned with our meager belongings and her young Martian protege, who, of course, would have to share the quarters with them. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 5. | One who reads a few of Shakespeare's great plays and then the meager story of his life is generally filled with a vague wonder. - from English Literature by William J. Long |