exiguity
Example Sentences
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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
I admit, I am not a mere anatomy, I am not a mere hungry, lean-faced, lantern-jawed, hollow-eyed, sallow-cheeked, vulture-beaked, over-dressed exiguity, like—well, mark you, I name no names.
From The Lady Paramount by Harland, Henry
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)
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
Although the exiguity of the vessel forbids inclusion of all these stories, yet the Committee wish to record them as worthy of preservation under covers.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various