exiguity
Example Sentences
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No lean-jowled, hungry-looking devotees, living in exiguity and droning in exinanition their prayers,––not by any means.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
One does not contrast the exiguity of a pint of nitric acid in an engraver's studio with the hundreds of gallons of water in the cisterns of his house.
From The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc
Obviously, the gravitational tie, rendered powerless by exiguity of matter, was here replaced by some other form of mutual action, the nature of which can as yet be dealt with only by conjecture.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
I admit, I am not a mere anatomy, I am not a mere hungry, lean-faced, lantern-jawed, hollow-eyed, sallow-cheeked, vulture-beaked, over-dressed exiguity, like—well, mark you, I name no names.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
He turned to find her dabbing her eyes with a couple of square inches of chiffon which, in spite of its exiguity, had smeared the powder on her face.
From The Mountebank by William John Locke