She extracted a meager allowance from her mother, took voice lessons, and for a time sang in a cabaret, then travelled to Rome to study art.

It was more than useless to ask their father, but Jason had saved from his meager allowance and offered to loan it to Robert with the cat as security.

She supplemented a meager allowance she received from the state by dressmaking and translating German works.

Another report states her father considered allowing the marriage until the Grand Duke threatened to cut off his already meager allowance.

Shortly after World War I, he was sent to Cambridge University with a manservant and what he later called a "meager" allowance of two pounds a week.

But the meager allowance was hardly enough for one.

To remind Rose that she was family, they pooled their meager allowances and gave her a golden rose on a delicate chain and gave it to her the day before she began her new life.

Even the most meager allowance will fund a shopping spree in the narrow streets of the Greek island towns.

Their meager allowances are docked for trivial violations, leaving them unable to buy even a soft drink, and they are often denied the occasional field trips as punishment as well.

(Many of them were kept on meager allowances by those so-careful lord fathers, generally an amount that was less than the cost of a good dog or a field hand.)