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meagreness |
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Translations meagreness, (US) meagerness n → Spärlichkeit f; (of amount, crowd) → Kläglichkeit f; (of meal) → Dürftigkeit f, → Kärglichkeit f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness. He looked at them, and saw in them, without knowing it, the slow sure filing down of misery-worn face and figure, that was to make the meagreness of Frenchmen an English superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years. Fanny's disposition was such that she could never even think of her aunt Norris in the meagreness and cheerlessness of her own small house, without reproaching herself for some little want of attention to her when they had been last together; much less could her feelings acquit her of having done and said and thought everything by William that was due to him for a whole fortnight. |
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