| 单词 | exiguity |
| 例句 | The upper chambers are reached by a ladder-stair of extreme exiguity, so frail and narrow that one person only can mount at a time, and only then by bowing his head. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The strong sonorous voice of the layman was in singular contrast with the exiguity of his thin, stunted frame. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Its siege had been undertaken in the hope of its rapid termination, which the exiguity of its garrison and the impossibility of its succour rendered probable. Malplaquet 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. The Politician Out-Witted 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. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Therefore let it be recorded as still most odd that we should all have assented to such deficiency of landscape, such exiguity of sport. A Small Boy and Others She might be drowned—but go she'll not Within a mile o' loch or sea; Or hanged—if cord could grip a throat O' siccan exiguity. The Book of Humorous Verse Thus it is observed that when such matters occur in other countries they become extinct spontaneously through lack of attention and exiguity of interest. A Traveler’s Narrative He would rank with Wolfe; indeed, considering the exiguity of his means, his feat would surpass that of Wolfe. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 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. Social Life in the Insect World 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. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' But to make up for the exiguity of his financial resources, Ugo had from his youth obtained social success. Saracinesca Although the exiguity of the vessel forbids inclusion of all these stories, yet the Committee wish to record them as worthy of preservation under covers. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 Doubtless because of the exiguity of his organ, he found it necessary to stop the windows of his nose with his fingers in order to smoke. The Quest 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. The Mountebank His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) |
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