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exiguity

[eg-zuh-gyoo-uh-tee, ek-suh-] / ˌɛg zəˈgju ə ti, ˌɛk sə- /










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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 Henry James

Its siege had been undertaken in the hope of its rapid termination, which the exiguity of its garrison and the impossibility of its succour rendered probable.

From Malplaquet by Hilaire Belloc

Its very exiguity proves that the male cannot remain underground; so soon as the chamber is ready he must retire in order to leave the female room to move.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

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

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




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