exiguity
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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 Ameen Fares Rihani
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
But to make up for the exiguity of his financial resources, Ugo had from his youth obtained social success.
From Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable.
From Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) by Morley Roberts
The exiguity of those legs is a most promising earnest of your future exploits, and demonstrate your agility, virility, salubrity, and amorosity; ha, ha, ha.
From The Politician Out-Witted by Montrose Jonas Moses
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