exiguity
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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
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 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 Huc, Evariste Regis
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 Rihani, Ameen Fares
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.