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
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 Belloc, Hilaire
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
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
But to make up for the exiguity of his financial resources, Ugo had from his youth obtained social success.
From Saracinesca by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)