Living in near solitude, he worked feverishly from dawn to dark, eating but one scanty meal a day.

Well might we be silent, for of food we had only enough left for a single scanty meal.

Nadia gave him the lion's share of this scanty meal.

Nine days alone with my thoughts and a few scanty meals.

"We'll have to drag Giancarlo," she told Torkel when they had finished their scanty meal.

Later that night, after a scanty meal of sweet roots, they told her why they had been so anxious about the wheels.

He sweeps the floor of the meager shack and cooks the scanty meals.

Egwene worked cheerfully, laughing and joking as they prepared their scanty meal.

The bird was large enough to provide a scanty meal.

They dined upon their future profits; and every scanty meal was so much in the savings bank.