The latter bought her materials from her meager earnings as a clerk.

Martha had relied on Sydney's small contribution and her own meager earnings.

The landlords wouldn't and what transients usually rented with their meager earnings were hardly worth using.

She continued to support her husband and daughter on her meager earnings as a writer.

Out of their meager earnings they helped keep and maintain the school until their deaths.

The family lives, he says, off the meager earnings of his wife, who works in a kindergarten.

Without it, some say, its earnings - already meager - might shrink.

He worked for three or four years, carefully saving what he could from his meager earnings.

From those meager earnings, about $30 a month had to be paid to the hospital for the privilege of holding the job.

The family's two small bedrooms are shared by six people who subsist on meager earnings.