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
Mark the scarceness of abstract terms, the concreteness of the figures:— Curséd the wight that trusteth in man Making flesh his stay!
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith
There was a great scarceness of lead for bullets; and to supply that need the leaden sashes, in which window-panes were at that time set, were melted down.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
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
