fewness

Example Sentences

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The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

We had youth, she and I, in a truer sense than that of fewness of years—we had the youth which is Hope.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

This control was spasmodic, because of the fewness of the watchbirds.

From Watchbird by Emshwiller, Ed

The fewness of early MSS. adds importance to other early testimony.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose