fewness

Example Sentences

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The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

For knowledge, and literature, and every useful art, for my friends and their prosperity, and for the fewness of my enemies,—Good God, I thank thee!

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.

They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The influence of those few was great in proportion to their fewness probably, quite as much as to their merit as philosophers.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Toombs, who was always looking at Cuffee, pronounced him “rich in the fewness of his wants.”

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin