fewness

Example Sentences

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The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

Toombs, who was always looking at Cuffee, pronounced him “rich in the fewness of his wants.”

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

We had youth, she and I, in a truer sense than that of fewness of years—we had the youth which is Hope.

From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

Of these there was a fewness, for the most preferred to laud themselves or their relations rather than another, and accordingly most of the chatter was scornful of O'olo, and to his discredit.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd

They are conspicuously contracted in the fewness of the witnesses which they deem worthy of credence.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William