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

No better proof need be adduced of the fewness of skilful shepherds, than the loss which every breeder of sheep sustains every year, especially in bad weather.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

We are not able to give more than a biographical sketch, but the facts are so interesting, and above all so edifying, as will in some measure compensate for their fewness.

From The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess by Anonymous

Everywhere is noticeable an enormous disproportion between the numbers of adults and children—a feature, in view of the fewness of the former, that argues badly for a much longer continuance of the race.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

His death might have been the conversion of thousands, of Callista; and the fewness of his days here would have been his claim to a blessed eternity hereafter.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry