An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes-George Eliot. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : exiguous income. From Dictionary.com.
The more glaring the contrast through the exiguity of the Capitalist class and its proportionately large individual holdings of the means of production the stronger this feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Nationalization Part Two] Reference
If we look simply at the magnitude of the results obtained, compared with the exiguity of the resources at command, -- if we remember that out of the small Kingdom of Sardinia grew united Italy, we must come to the conclusion that Count Cavour was undoubtedly a statesman of marvellous skill and prescience. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
But to make up for the exiguity of his financial resources, Ugo had from his youth obtained social success. From Wordnik.com. [Saracinesca] Reference
He would rank with Wolfe; indeed, considering the exiguity of his means, his feat would surpass that of Wolfe. From Wordnik.com. [The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
He turned to find her dabbing her eyes with a couple of square inches of chiffon which, in spite of its exiguity, had smeared the powder on her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
Thus it is observed that when such matters occur in other countries they become extinct spontaneously through lack of attention and exiguity of interest. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveler’s Narrative] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
Obviously, the gravitational tie, rendered powerless by exiguity of matter, was here replaced by some other form of mutual action, the nature of which can as yet be dealt with only by conjecture. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
It is not very easy to see how such very trifling surnames as this last came into existence, but its exiguity is surpassed in the case of a prominent French airman who bears the appropriately buoyant name of. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
The marooned seaman saves his sanity by cutting notches in a stick, the solitary prisoner by friendship with a mouse; and when life is reduced to the last exiguity of narrowness, the interests of life will be narrow too. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest of the Simple Life]
That is, it was one of those diminutive structures which are known at French watering-places as chalets, and, with an exiguity of furniture, are let for the season to families that pride themselves upon their powers of contraction. From Wordnik.com. [Confidence] Reference
The absence of rugs or carpets and curtains, the polish and exiguity of the furniture, the general air of having no more in the rooms than that which will just serve the purposes of life did not suit his sense of abundance and luxury. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Life of Henry Maitland]
Sydney Smith declared that when Lord John first contested Devonshire the burly electors were disappointed by the exiguity of their candidate, but were satisfied when it was explained to them that he had once been much larger, but was worn away by the anxieties and struggles of the Reform Bill of 1832. From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
The exiguity of costume in the ballet caused her indeed to glance in a frightened sort of way at Mrs. McMurray, who reassured her with a friendly smile, but the music and the maze of motion and the dazzle of colour soon held her senses captive, and when the curtain came down she sighed like one awaking from a dream. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
She thought of the difficulty she had in persuading Delafield to allow himself even necessary comforts and conveniences; a laugh, involuntary, and not without tenderness, crossed her face as she recalled a tale he had told her at Camaldoli, of the contempt excited in a young footman of a smart house by the mediocrity and exiguity of his garments and personal appointments generally. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference
Some women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph and a drab beaver-bonnet, with a crown resembling a small stew-pan; for a garment suggesting a coachman's greatcoat, cut out under an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes, is not well adapted to conceal deficiencies of contour, nor is drab a colour that will throw sallow cheeks into lively contrast. From Wordnik.com. [Silas Marner] Reference
SOME women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph and a drab beaver-bonnet, with a crown resembling a small stew-pan; for a garment suggesting a coachman's greatcoat, cut out under an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes, is not well adapted to conceal deficiencies of contour, nor is drab a color that will throw sallow cheeks into a lively contrast. From Wordnik.com. [Silas Marner (1885)] Reference
A bit of roof left, whereunder they both took their stand in such close quarters, owing to the exiguity of the shelter, that they perforce touched one another. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron, Volume II] Reference
O 'siccan exiguity. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
I admit, I am not a mere anatomy, I am not a mere hungry, lean-faced, lantern-jawed, hollow-eyed, sallow-cheeked, vulture-beaked, over-dressed exiguity, like -- well, mark you, I name no names. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Paramount] Reference
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