exiguity
Example Sentences
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Thus it is observed that when such matters occur in other countries they become extinct spontaneously through lack of attention and exiguity of interest.
From A Traveler’s Narrative by `Abdu'l-Bahá
The exiguity of those legs is a most promising earnest of your future exploits, and demonstrate your agility, virility, salubrity, and amorosity; ha, ha, ha.
From The Politician Out-Witted by Moses, Montrose Jonas
The strong sonorous voice of the layman was in singular contrast with the exiguity of his thin, stunted frame.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis
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 Locke, William John
Therefore let it be recorded as still most odd that we should all have assented to such deficiency of landscape, such exiguity of sport.
From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry