In long winters they had sat by meager fires, hardly speaking for days at a time.

He showed her to a bedroom at the end of the hall with small windows on two sides and a meager fire in the grate.

We veterans know about the genteel jockeying for position around the meager open fire that was the only source of heat.

Getting to his feet, he went to the fireplace and laid a log on the meager fire the housekeeper had laid.

A meager fire burned in the hearth, but with all the warm bodies in there, it was enough.

Far, far away, on a hilltop, a hooded figure is staring into a meager fire.

At the far end was a meager fire, and what seemed to my unfortunately myopic eyes a bundle of blue rags.

On an adjacent wall is a painting of hollow-eyed women and children huddling around a meager fire in the street.

About 12 aircraft were shot down during the initial bombing by meager anti-aircraft fire.

She stared into the flames of the meager, heatless fire as though searching for the alternatives she had lost.