exiguity
Example Sentences
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Its very exiguity proves that the male cannot remain underground; so soon as the chamber is ready he must retire in order to leave the female room to move.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
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
But to make up for the exiguity of his financial resources, Ugo had from his youth obtained social success.
From Saracinesca by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable.
From Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) by Roberts, Morley
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.