This to the writer's mind forms the very meanest system of beggary with which he has yet been brought in contact.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
"You've read it, I know, and I've rushed out here at my dinner hour to tell you that it's the meanest trick I ever knew anybody to do, and-" "Who did it?"
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
Her own presence lent an air of distinction to the meanest room.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch