exiguity

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The upper chambers are reached by a ladder-stair of extreme exiguity, so frail and narrow that one person only can mount at a time, and only then by bowing his head.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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 Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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

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 Rihani, Ameen Fares