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dearth
1. situation was one that betrayed a lack of application or a dearth of
2. A dearth has never been known there
3. Years of dearth, it is to be observed, are generally among the common people years of sickness and mortality, which cannot fail to diminish the produce of their industry
4. A farmer fights the elements, the heat, the hail, the dearth of rain or sometimes too much rain, a late thaw, or wind storms
5. If, by not raising the price high enough, he discourages the consumption so little, that the supply of the season is likely to fall short of the consumption of the season, he not only loses a part of the profit which he might otherwise have made, but he exposes the people to suffer before the end of the season, instead of the hardships of a dearth, the dreadful horrors of a famine
6. Whoever examines, with attention, the history of the dearths and famines which have afflicted any part of Europe during either the course of the present or that of the two preceding centuries, of several of which we have pretty exact accounts, will find, I believe, that a dearth never has arisen from any combination among the inland dealers in corn, nor from any other cause but a real scarcity, occasioned sometimes, perhaps, and in some particular places, by the waste of war, but in by far the greatest number of cases by the fault of the seasons; and that a famine has never arisen from any other cause but the violence of government attempting, by improper means, to remedy the inconveniencies of a dearth
7. The drought in Bengal, a few years ago, might probably have occasioned a very great dearth
8. Some improper regulations, some injudicious restraints, imposed by the servants of the East India Company upon the rice trade, contributed, perhaps, to turn that dearth into a famine
9. By making them feel the inconveniencies of a dearth somewhat earlier than they otherwise might do, he prevents their feeling them afterwads so severely as they certainly would do, if the cheapness of price encouraged them to consume faster than suited the real scarcity of the season
10. If, while his own country labours under a dearth, a neighbouring country should be afflicted with a famine, it might be his interest to carry corn to the latter country, in such quantities as might very much aggravate the calamities of the dearth
11. The plentiful supply of the home market was not the direct object of those statutes; but, under the pretence of encouraging agriculture, to raise the money price of corn as high as possible, and thereby to occasion, as much as possible, a constant dearth in the home market
12. As among the different provinces of a great empire, the freedmn of the inland trade appears, both from reason and experience, not only the best palliative of a dearth, but the most effectual preventive of a famine; so would the freedom of the exportation and importation trade be among the different states into which a great continent was divided
13. The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine
14. The demand of such countries for corn may frequently become so great and so urgent, that a small state in their neighbourhood, which happened at the same time to be labouring under some degree of dearth, could not venture to supply them without exposing itself to the like dreadful calamity
15. 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth
16. mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses that we might buy corn, because of the dearth
17. Finally toward the eastern end of town, we encountered an old man sitting in front of his house watching the dearth of activity
18. The thirteen-year-olds had to handle more difficult material, and the dearth of good teaching showed
19. 54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had
20. said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was
21. 12 And Jesus spoke to them also another parable: A man had two sons and the younger son said to him My father give me my portion that belongs to me of your goods; And he divided between them his property; And after a few days the younger son gathered everything that belonged to him and went into a far country and there squandered his property by living prodigally; And when he had exhausted everything he had there occurred a great dearth in that country; And when he was in want he went and joined himself to one of the people of a city of that country; and that man sent him into the field to feed the pigs; And he used to long to fill his belly with the carob that those pigs were eating and no man gave him; And when he returned to himself he said How many hired servants now in my father's house have bread enough and to spare while I here perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father's house and say to him My father I have sinned in heaven and before you and am not worthy now to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants; And he arose and came to his father; But his father saw him while he was at a distance and was moved with compassion for him and ran and fell on his breast and kissed him; And his son said to him My father I have sinned in heaven and before you and am not worthy to be called your son
22. Who knows, he might like to opt for one from his own class! Would there be any dearth of brides for him? If not out of love, at least for his wealth, won’t women line up to tie the knot with him?’
23. most likely set of events, when there is a dearth of scientific fact
24. Landscaping stones come in all shapes and kinds as there is no dearth in the variety available
25. Bread, carrots and potatoes, which were considered luxury foods in these times of dearth, were all laid out on the table in plenty
26. Her warm touch was a relief to him in dearth of Sujata but just touching nothing more
27. Although the literary output of Cuba isgreater than that of some other Spanish-American countries,yet during the colonial period there was in Cuba a dearth ofboth prose and
28. There is a dearth of conversions because faith about the new birth as a creative act of the Holy Spirit1007 has lost its grip on intellect and heart
29. Oh! these bleak winds and bitter northern skies, and impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons! And, oh, this dearth of the human physiognomy! and, worse than all, the terrible intimation of Kenneth that I need not expect to be out of doors till spring
30. It will be a promise to supply commodities to the amount specified on the note, and as there could be no dearth of those things there could be no possibility of bankruptcy
31. They all admired to see the foresaid riches in such dearth of money as was herebefore
32. Brooke; for it is a little too trying to human flesh to be conscious of expressing one's self better than others and never to have it noticed, and in the general dearth of admiration for the right thing, even a chance bray of applause falling exactly in time is rather fortifying
33. “If truth be told, there has been a dearth of suitors
34. It was a fairly awful reminder, the dearth of good memories we had since our move, that my wife was forced to pick Hannibal for her treasure hunt
35. Many thousands then perished, but the Days of Dearth (1158-60) were at the time of this tale long past and the Hobbits had again become
36. In the old days I would religiously dump shares that made 30% and rotate into new opportunities, however with the dearth of companies I like and the tendency of shares to run and run I’m sticking to my guns instead
37. Wall Street analysts, facing a dearth of information from the companies they cover, have been forced to expand their areas of inquiry
38. One email, which was written with a tone of supercilious authority, in my view, argued against my view that we were in a window of opportunity:I have gone back to 1985 looking at periods when a NASDAQ rally has occurred on conspicuously light volume including a dearth of major accum[ulation] days
39. It is not that the larger quadrupeds are actually destroyed (except in some rare cases) by flies, but they are incessantly harassed and their strength reduced, so that they are more subject to disease, or not so well enabled in a coming dearth to search for food, or to escape from beasts of prey
40. And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt, there was bread
41. Others again, connecting the greatest failure of water with the concurring dearth of rain, conceived that the fact might be explained by the droughts occasioning a deficiency in the river-water, and thus cutting off the supply which they supposed had heretofore percolated from the margin of the river into the wells
