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exiguity

[eg-zuh-gyoo-uh-tee, ek-suh-] / ˌɛg zəˈgju ə ti, ˌɛk sə- /










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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 Lewis Wingfield

No lean-jowled, hungry-looking devotees, living in exiguity and droning in exinanition their prayers,––not by any means.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

The strong sonorous voice of the layman was in singular contrast with the exiguity of his thin, stunted frame. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc

He would rank with Wolfe; indeed, considering the exiguity of his means, his feat would surpass that of Wolfe.

From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by John Lespérance

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 Montrose Jonas Moses




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