The latter had been very unhappy in her youth, and had been left a widow with one beautiful girl and a rather exiguous fortune.
"Whosoever Shall Offend"
F. Marion Crawford
The game is to make seven points by hitting the adversary as many times, and he who wins receives the exiguous stakes for which they play.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
Perhaps in her girlhood, when I had often seen her in such exiguous finery, they had not been so shapely.
"The Red Planet"
William J. Locke