scarceness
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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
Such changes may be brought about either by the plenty, or scarceness, of the herbage; or by the nature of the country on which that herbage is produced.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock
But our torches were poor, and driftwood of much scarceness, so we dare not investigate greatly the interior for better place.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
Its value advances yearly, with the increasing scarceness of the animal; it will soon entirely disappear, and exist only in description to decorate our zoological works.
From A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Otto von Kotzebue
He is inferior to them in design and composition; however the scarceness of his pictures frequently gives them a superior value.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
