exiguity
Example Sentences
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Although the exiguity of the vessel forbids inclusion of all these stories, yet the Committee wish to record them as worthy of preservation under covers.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
The fairy of folk-lore in Shakespeare's day is nearly everything that the fairies of A Midsummer-Night's Dream are; we may possibly except their exiguity, their relations in love with mortals, and their hymeneal functions.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank
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 Harland, Henry
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 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
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