Adjective : Meat and butter were scarce during the war. ,a scarce book. From Dictionary.com.
'He setteth the poor on high, an letteth the runagates continoo in scarceness.'. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
I've had a lot going on lately, as you may have guessed by my semi-scarceness. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Deal 2.0—Doin' It!] Reference
You may have noticed my (LowerManhattanite's) scarceness over the last week-and-a-half or so. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
A scarceness seven years, or else three months 'exile. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
Confederacy might suffer much from a scarceness of bread. From Wordnik.com. [A Fast-Day Sermon; Preached in the Church of Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg County, N. C., February 28th, 1862.] Reference
I wish they did not resemble the latter in their scarceness. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
All the more might it be so in view of its scarceness, from the first. From Wordnik.com. [The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note] Reference
Mark the scarceness of abstract terms, the concreteness of the figures: —. From Wordnik.com. [Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922] Reference
Still, if scarceness is an element of value, these things should be precious. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
If in a brewer's house, at the over-plenty of water and the scarceness of malt I should grieve. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
(Given the scarceness of afrobeat groups out there, we won't have anything to worry about for a while.). From Wordnik.com. [DOA] Reference
At some point, rejection was inevitable and insiders started looking for items with the cachet of scarceness. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
A severe lack of affordable housing and a scarceness of jobs that pay a living wage are the root causes of homelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
Such are oxen, goats, and horses, which are much valued for their scarceness, but used without saddle, bridle, or trappings. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.] Reference
He is inferior to them in design and composition; however the scarceness of his pictures frequently gives them a superior value. From Wordnik.com. [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference
Upward of occasion, it becomes dab hand at sending you just the emails that you scarceness, and blocking the emails that you do not. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
Not long ago cashmere, the material woven from the spring moult of Tibetan goats, was noted as much for its scarceness as its softness. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
So when the year of scarceness comes to us we will not be able to subsist long upon our corn converted into whiskey, however abundant it may be. From Wordnik.com. [A Fast-Day Sermon; Preached in the Church of Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg County, N. C., February 28th, 1862.] Reference
And yet, a recent survey of nearly 2,000 executives verifies not only the truth of the impact of green leadership, but also its relative scarceness. From Wordnik.com. [GreenBiz.com Green Business News] Reference
It would be too tedious to dwell on the beauty, merit, and scarceness of these stones, as well as on their finished workmanship and degree of antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
English fool who had brought me to this, I cursed the years of plenty and scarceness, and the Quartier Marais, and Zaton's, where I had lived like a pig, and. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Red Robe] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2] Reference
A threatening of the paucity and scarceness of man (ver. 1), which might fitly enough have been added to the close of the foregoing chapter, to which it has a plain reference. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
It was specially disastrous because it was accompanied by times of scarceness and by changes connected with a revolution in agriculture which pressed heavily on many of the poorer classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference
“scarceness o’ victual ’ull keep: there’s no need to be hasty wi’ the cooking. An’ scarceness is what there’s the biggest stock of i’ that country.”. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. From Wordnik.com. [Deuteronomy 8.] Reference
008: 009 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
Must then redeem the scarceness of their soil. From Wordnik.com. [All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy] Reference
(little inferior to MSS. in regard of their scarceness) hath also been very considerably assistant to me as well in this present work as in others; "&c. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
Grown in a land of scarceness. From Wordnik.com. [SocraticGadfly] Reference
"Bread without scarceness.". From Wordnik.com. [Pens��es] Reference
1793, the usual scarceness of seamen was met. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference
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