Some recall Muriel Spark's girls of slender means, now grown into perfumed womanhood.

I determined to go into business at once, and not wait to acquire the usual capital, using such slender means as I had already got.

The village of Belton was singular in containing several of decidedly slender means.

Along with hundreds of thousands of other men and women in austerity Britain I have joined the ranks of those of slender means.

After her husband's death, Elizabeth Gull devoted herself to her children's upbringing on very slender means.

The aged naturalist was thus kept in touch with London affairs when compelled to stay in Essex on account of ill health and slender means.

But seldom has a branch of the Services gone to war with such slender means, a circumstance for which the, political leadership of that time bore responsibility.

And Wallace, once a boy of slender means, signed a six-year, $30 million contract in 2000.

I am a man of more slender means.

He has moved to the Midi, where his penury pinches less and his slender means go farther.