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
When the war broke out in 1793, the usual scarceness of seamen was met.
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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 Francis W. Blagdon
The river was the only resource, and from the scarceness of hooks the supply of fish obtainable was rather scanty.
From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by George Bryce
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 John Dryden
