Why should I be able to rescue even that meager portion of joy for my life?

We thought of walking off a short way to devour our meager portions, but we were bunched around our dripping communal plates.

Each dish, whether starter, entree or dessert, was served in gratifying portion - not meager but not Gargantuan either.

But they all were quickly sleeping in densely overcrowded barracks, eating meager portions of bread, and fearing for their lives.

Some offer the meager portion of their food to the helpers.

Antonio did less well with a carroty consomme with a meager portion of three vegetable-filled minitortellini.

So when the meager portions of meat were distributed, he asked his wife airily, 'Have you talked with the widow Kusha about her daughter?

That was because he and his wife had given up their meager portions whenever they could.

Bruenor called as he noted the meager portions left on the skillet.

The fellow in the Labyrinth ate up her meager portions of bread and cheese and beans as a toad eats a fly: snap!