exiguity
Example Sentences
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The upper chambers are reached by a ladder-stair of extreme exiguity, so frail and narrow that one person only can mount at a time, and only then by bowing his head.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
Therefore let it be recorded as still most odd that we should all have assented to such deficiency of landscape, such exiguity of sport.
From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry
The fairy of folk-lore in Shakespeare's day is nearly everything that the fairies of A Midsummer-Night's Dream are; we may possibly except their exiguity, their relations in love with mortals, and their hymeneal functions.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank
One does not contrast the exiguity of a pint of nitric acid in an engraver's studio with the hundreds of gallons of water in the cisterns of his house.
From The Free Press by Belloc, Hilaire
The exiguity of those legs is a most promising earnest of your future exploits, and demonstrate your agility, virility, salubrity, and amorosity; ha, ha, ha.
From The Politician Out-Witted by Moses, Montrose Jonas