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- In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest.--The scarcity of such people is astonishing. [5]
- The Bermudians lean upon barrels because of the scarcity of lamp-posts. [5]
- Perhaps a little torture would do it, he thought; and so he had made the rather tactless remark about the scarcity of dollars. [11]
- We did every thing by mass-meeting, in the good old national way, from swapping off one empire for another on the programme of the voyage down to complaining of the cookery and the scarcity of napkins. [5]
- So bad were the main thoroughfares, even, that markets were sometimes inaccessible for months together, and the fruits of the earth rotted in one place, while there was scarcity not many miles distant. [4]
- In this first stage, the heat of the sun, the monotony of the road, and the scarcity of sleep during the past thirty-six hours were all unfavorable to our keeping on the wagon-seat. [4]
- After his departure scarcity and severity developed a mutiny, and six of the settlers were executed. [4]
- And one odd result of the scarcity of what the English are pleased to call "petrol," by which they mean gasoline, is the reappearance of that respectable, but almost obsolete animal, the family carriage-horse; of that equally obsolete vehicle, the victoria. [9]
- The absence of pie would be more noticed than a scarcity of Bible even. [4]
- During a part of the previous year it had sold at five hundred a ton, in gold, and during the winter before that there was such scarcity of the article that in several instances small quantities had brought eight hundred dollars a ton in coin! [5]
- No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell. [5]
- But the chariot must be back again in less than an hour, for it is one of the king's, and when the banquet is over there may be a scarcity of chariots. [10]
- If the young ladies shared her sentiments they made no resolute protests, remembering perhaps the scarcity of young men elsewhere, and thinking that it is better to be loved by a lawn-tennis suit than not to be loved at all. [4]
- If Mr. Froude, instead of his plaint over the scarcity of good mechanics, and of the Ten Commandments in England, had recommended the establishment of industrial schools, he would have spoken more to the purpose. [4]
- A hopeful point in all her writings is the scarcity of false French sentiment; I wish I could say its absence; but the weed flourishes here and there, even in the 'Lettres. [14]
- He was forced, however, to return without having accomplished his object, after having miserably lost the greater part of his army by heat and the scarcity of provisions. [10]
- Mr. Tallant's newspaper had published many complaints of the age and scarcity of the cars, etc. [9]
- If I could get the custody of them for a while, I fear me the market price of silver bishops would advance shortly, on account of their exceeding scarcity in the Cathedral of Milan. [5]
- There was, however, a scarcity of preachers and ministers in Elizabeth's time, and their character was not generally high. [4]
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