exiguity
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exiguities
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The exiguity of those legs is a most promising earnest of your future exploits, and demonstrate your agility, virility, salubrity, and amorosity; ha, ha, ha.
From The Politician Out-Witted by Montrose Jonas Moses
The fairy of folk-lore in Shakespeare's day is nearly everything that the fairies of A Midsummer-Night's Dream are; we may possibly except their exiguity, their relations in love with mortals, and their hymeneal functions.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable.
From Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) by Morley Roberts
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 Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
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 A Small Boy and Others by Henry James
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