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    scanty


    1. The subsistence which they find there is so scanty, that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship


    2. The lowest class being not only overstocked with its own workmen, but with the overflowings of all the other classes, the competition for employment would be so great in it, as to reduce the wages of labour to the most miserable and scanty subsistence of the labourer


    3. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition, that they are going fast backwards


    4. A plentiful subsistence, therefore, it has been concluded, relaxes, and a scanty one quickens their industry


    5. They earn but a very scanty


    6. They were astonished to observe the rage of the Spaniards to obtain them; and had no notion that there could anywhere be a country in which many people had the disposal of so great a superfluity of food; so scanty always among themselves, that, for a very small quantity of those glittering baubles, they would willingly give as much as might maintain a whole family for many years


    7. It is with the produce of improved and cultivated land only that cattle can be fed in the stable; because, to collect the scanty and scattered produce of waste and unimproved lands, would require too much labour, and be too expensive


    8. I answer, that this might be the case, if the effect of the bounty was to raise the real price of corn, or to enable the farmer, with an equal quantity of it, to maintain a greater number of labourers in the same manner, whether liberal, moderate, or scanty, than other labourers are commonly maintained in his neighbourhood


    9. The freest competition cannot lower it, Through the world in general, that value is equal to the quantity of labour which it can maintain, and in every particular place it is equal to the quantity of labour which it can maintain in the way, whether liberal, moderate, or scanty, in which labour is commonly maintained in that place


    10. regulates the subsistence of the labourer, and determines in what degree it shall be either liberal, moderate, or scanty

    11. The ordinary average price of provisions determines the quantity of money which must be paid to the workman, in order to enable him, one year with another, to purchase this liberal, moderate, or scanty subsistence


    12. Many died from exhaustion; but the majority either gave up in despair and returned to Caney, or managed to reach the main road from Siboney to Santiago, where the passing troops, touched by the mute appeal on those despondent faces, devoted the greater part of their own scanty rations to aid them on the way


    13. But the position was far from comfortable, and it was a terrible ordeal to lie hour after hour, behind scanty cover, while a frontal, oblique, enfilade and cross fire was poured against the position, with seven-inch shells thumping over into the centre of the hill at intervals


    14. The scanty fare rarely left Maggie feeling full, but she did not lack for energy


    15. The only clues in the Scriptures we have to uncover the meaning of the other two colours seen here are very scanty


    16. 2 This man by obedience went out from his land and his kinsfolk and the house of his father that by leaving a scanty land and weak kinsfolk and a small house he might inherit the promises of God


    17. She looked up and saw an attractive girl dressed in a scanty swimsuit, shaking a small glass for shots with one hands and holding a helmet made of plastic on her head with the other


    18. The condition of the torchlight was scanty at best


    19. this man had al of the business in it, he could do no more than make a scanty


    20. Her scanty silk tunic, girded at the waist, displayed the marvelous contours of her magnificent figure

    21. He had dumped her unceremoniously on the floor when he turned to close the door, and she had risen to her knees, mechanically arranging her streaming locks and her scanty garment


    22. But her familiarity with such matters was scanty compared to that of Conan


    23. A low cry echoed his words and then the door was thrown open by a woman in a scanty shift


    24. He was naked but for a scanty silk clout that only partly covered his muscular hips, and a leather girdle, a hand's breadth broad, about his lean waist


    25. She was clad only in a scanty shift; her golden hair fell in lustrous ripples about her white shoulders, and her wrists were bound behind her


    26. The pleasure-loving Poitanians had no need nor desire to wrest a hard and scanty living from their stern breasts


    27. the scanty scrub, with Dan trying to bring the vehicle to a


    28. When I counted my scanty store


    29. However, that information was at first very scanty and had the potential to start public disturbances and possibly panic if leaked in the open


    30. The first thing that happens, in Genesis 39, Verse 7, is the master's wife starts eyeing him up, so she starts dressing in scanty clothes, and starts persuading him, saying every day, every day, day after day after day, come on, lie with me, come on, let's have sex

    31. about as thick as Tom’s forearms, the flesh so scanty that the knobs and indentations of his


    32. atmosphere is very cold and the air has scanty oxygen


    33. The meagre old man who is the least conspicuous with his scanty


    34. Viewing farms whose yield in crops is scanty,


    35. He bent over her hand so as to hide what he was feeling, and she, seeing him from this angle, couldn't but notice how very scanty his hair was on the top


    36. By this time I was ready, but I did not choose to meet the unknown emotional one on the plank bridge because the garments in which one bathes in German waters are regrettably scanty; so I waited, peeping through the little window


    37. What right had this one, only because my apparel was scanty, to smile at me and say _prachtvoll_? I was so much startled by the unexpected exclamation from a person who had the minute before been rending the air with her laments, that my foot slipped on the wet planks, I just heard the bathing woman advising me to take care, just had time to comment to myself on the foolishness of such advice to one already hurling through space, and then came a shock of all-engulfing coldness and wetness and suffocation, and the next moment there I was gasping and spluttering exactly as the other bath-guest had gasped and spluttered, but with this difference, that she had clutched the rope and shrieked, and I, with all the convulsive energy of panic, was shrieking and clutching the bath-guest


    38. Then presently the afternoon became an evening once a week, when whoever liked could come in after dinner and talk and drink coffee, because the evening was safer; made safe by Wemyss's conviction--he hadn't concealed it--that the dinners of maiden ladies were notoriously both scanty and


    39. stone, scanty urinary, dry mouth and loss of body fluid, leading to low


    40. She talked to me quite at ease in her scanty attire even when Telly was downstairs

    41. You will have a healthy body and mind, the excretions will be scanty, the voice will be sweet, the face will be brilliant, and the eyes will be lustrous


    42. Yin grows scanty - that is, loses something


    43. Silicea 30 Contraction of anal sphincter not strong enough to expel stool, so stool slides back in again, Anus feels sore, stools scanty, hard and covered with mucous, person chilly and prone to sweating of head


    44. There are scanty researches regarding the percentage of CFS patients who recover


    45. was ferociously expelled by the scanty Muslim force


    46. Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale


    47. The people rudely pictured as drinking in the wine-shops, croaked over their scanty measures of thin wine and beer, and were gloweringly confidential together


    48. Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity


    49. Harassed by this reflection, he made haste with his scanty pothouse supper, and having finished it called the landlord, and shutting himself into the stable with him, fell on his knees before him, saying, "From this spot I rise not, valiant knight, until your courtesy grants me the boon I seek, one that will redound to your praise and the benefit of the human race


    50. As soon as we had come to an understanding, and made choice of our professions, my father embraced us all, and in the short time he mentioned carried into effect all he had promised; and when he had given to each his share, which as well as I remember was three thousand ducats apiece in cash (for an uncle of ours bought the estate and paid for it down, not to let it go out of the family), we all three on the same day took leave of our good father; and at the same time, as it seemed to me inhuman to leave my father with such scanty means in his old age, I induced him to take two of my three thousand ducats, as the remainder would be enough to provide me with all a soldier needed


































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    Synonyms for "scanty"

    pantie panty scanty step-in bare spare skimpy tiny sparse scarce wee diminutive small gaunt lean slender meagre narrow paltry

    "scanty" definitions

    short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)


    lacking in magnitude or quantity


    (of clothing) revealing the body