exiguity
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Obviously, the gravitational tie, rendered powerless by exiguity of matter, was here replaced by some other form of mutual action, the nature of which can as yet be dealt with only by conjecture.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
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
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
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
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