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

They came to it almost immediately; he was to wonder afterwards at the fewness of their steps.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

Three fewnesses that are better than plenty: a fewness of fine words; a fewness of cows in grass; a fewness of friends around good ale.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

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.

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