scantness
Example Sentences
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But her progress was slow, owing to the scantness of the wind, and for the next ten days they were able to accomplish only a few miles a day, the current running strong against them.
From In Search of El Dorado by Collingwood, Harry
His heart feels a fresh bound; he feels neither strain of limb nor scantness of breath, and, searching as he runs, he descries before him in the plain the deceitful sire alone.
From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thrum, Thomas G. (Thomas George)
Such a street, in the first place; then this little bit of a house; and then, there was more than that; he could see tokens unmistakeable of scantness of means.
From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan
This was the quelling they brought, a scantness of drink that seized him.
From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Eliot, Charles William
They hired no other servants after their arrival, which, however, struck nobody as an admission of scantness of means.
From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan
