scarceness

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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018

If he be vanquished,   Or make his peace, Egypt is doomed to be   A Roman province; and our plenteous harvests   Must then redeem the scarceness of their soil.

From All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy by Dryden, John

If he be vanquished, Or make his peace, Egypt is doomed to be A Roman province; and our plenteous harvests Must then redeem the scarceness of their soil.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

He is inferior to them in design and composition; however the scarceness of his pictures frequently gives them a superior value.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

It has been hinted that there was a reason for the scarceness of the plums in the plum-cake.

From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty