scanty
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Scanty details of the operation disclosed that the U.S. airborne troops dropped in the western part of the target area, while the British jumpers and glider-men landed in the eastern zone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scanty reports from Bolivia last week indicated that President Villarroel and his Government of young Army officers and intellectuals were again at war with the tin companies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scanty as it was, it was more than Alice craved; or rather, it was not what she craved.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller
The dress of a bridal princess! cries Mrs. Scanty, and for one night's wear too!
From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John
Scanty villages, low huts, dirty-looking people clad in skins, the plantain, sweet potato, sesamum, and millet forming the chief edibles, besides goats and fowls.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Vocabulary lists containing scanty
On the Origin of Species
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The Bridge Home
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"Declaration of Sentiments," Vocabulary from the public document
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