"dearths" of "actual" revolutionary science, and who demand to know whether a particular spinster aunt is a neo-Molotovian Sputnikist, aren't interested in a post-patriarchal society at all! ❋ Unknown (2009)
In larger cities, the pre-modern laboring poor commanded various shades of wheat, and Parisians adamantly rejected non-wheaten loaves even in dearths. ❋ Steven L. Kaplan (2011)
The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and what soever, in offending people, joineth and knitteth them in a common cause. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“‘Within three years, there will be no more famines and dearths.’” ❋ Unknown (2003)
But behold, he stands at the door & knocks, by treasons, by plagues, by the hammer of dearths, discontents, fires, inundations, especially by the word; his locks are wet with waiting. ❋ Samuel Ward (N/A)
"'Within three years, there will be no more famines and dearths.'" ❋ Xueqin Cao (N/A)
But as the giraffe does actually exist in large numbers in S. Africa, and as some of the largest antelopes in the world, taller than an ox, abound there, why should we doubt that, as far as size is concerned, intermediate gradations could formerly have existed there, subjected as now to severe dearths. ❋ Unknown (1909)
It can thus obtain food beyond the reach of the other Ungulata or hoofed animals inhabiting the same country; and this must be a great advantage to it during dearths. ❋ Unknown (1909)
So under nature with the nascent giraffe the individuals which were the highest browsers, and were able during dearths to reach even an inch or two above the others, will often have been preserved; for they will have roamed over the whole country in search of food. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and whatsoever, in offending people, joineth and knitteth them in a common cause. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The corn-dealers of the time were looked upon with dislike by every one; many of the dearths then so frequent, and nearly always caused by bad seasons, were ascribed to 'engrossers buying of corn and witholding it for sale'. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Fictitious dearths were created; the value of wheat was raised to famine prices; good grain was sold out of the kingdom, and bad imported in exchange; while Sixtus forced his subjects to purchase from his stores, and made a profit by the hunger and disease of his emaciated provinces. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
Report of the Committee on Commerce, Manufactures and the Mechanic Arts, on a Bill to provide against dearths of salt; ❋ South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate (1863)
A Bill to provide against dearths of salt, recommending its passage; which was ordered for consideration to-morrow, and to be printed. ❋ South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate (1863)
A Bill to provide against dearths of salt, was, on motion of Mr. MAZYCK, made the Special Order of the Day for to-morrow, at a quarter-past 2, P.M. The General Orders of the Day were disposed of. ❋ South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate (1863)
An Act to provide against dearths of salt; and they were committed to the Committee on Incorporations and Engrossed Acts. Leave of absence was granted to the Senators from Chester and Abbeville, after this day, until Wednesday next. ❋ South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate (1863)
Economists are increasingly recognizing that the struggles of places like Japan and Italy to extricate themselves from economic slumps that began in the 1990s result in part from extreme "birth dearths" that have shrunk labor pools, dried up consumer spending, and made businesses, staffed by older employees, more risk-averse. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Volt brothers, as per usual, display Vulcan-esque dearths of emotion while preparing their fantastically elaborate plates. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That mission was for them to come to terms with the very ordinary, very fragile defining human experience: fundamental emptiness and limitless fear of meaninglessness, or what I call the crisis of infinite dearths. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There is a dearth of [affordable housing] ❋ Tantric_tonto (2006)
1. His [pose] revealed the full extent of his dearth.
2. Upon [viewing] the [underwater] images of naked bodies, we realized you could clearly see the models dearth.
3. Plumbers dearth ❋ Count D Monet (2011)
We have a [dearth] of [caring] people in this [world]. ❋ D-Monkey (2018)
[megan] is a [big] dearth ❋ Hamjacob (2007)
Bro 1: "Man, did you see [Julie] today?"
[Brah] 2: "[Birth Dearth]!" ❋ Brownz99 (2010)
'Living' dearths of worth should not be confused with wasters or alkies. Substance abusers provide [cultural enrichment] by caricature, dramatic representation and living examples to provide educative warnings to others; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Trainspotting being two examples. Likewise, living dearths of worth are not by definition jobless or [workshy]; many have regular employment and even command positions of financial and political power. Examples include hedge fund managers and institutions which receive gargantuan fiscal rewards after causing catastrophic economic damage.
"Tha' new lassie [Deborah's] been hingin' abit noat daen' any o'the paperowrk. [Uht's] a disgrace."
"Ah, Jock, Deborah is not new. She has been here four years now. I do not think in such time she has produced one viable body of paperwork in all that time."
"Sae why d'the bosses keep her oan fir?"
"It defies rational explanation. She is a [dearth of worth]."
"The dog just sits there. Three house fires and not so much as a bark. The owners love him though, always buying him luxury [dog treats]."
"They've got themselves a dearth of worth for a pet."
"He speaks of the superiority of his race and its accomplishments."
"What does he do for a living?"
"He sells write-off cars to college students and young mothers."
"What does he do in his spare time?"
"He shouts at his television and writes hate mail to the local school board."
"He is most likely a dearth of worth." ❋ GoodFellaJack (2014)
"I was trying to do a search to find out how many carbohydrates are in this herbal medicine. So I used Google"
"how did your search go?"
"I got carb counters for culinary herbs, lots of information on weight loss herbs, lots of places where I could buy herbs, lots of ads for [low carb] diets, but absolutely no information on whether [slippery elm] is [too loaded] with carbs for me to use for nasal polyps while on my diet-- wow! I got hit again by Google Dearth!" ❋ Coz The Shroom (2012)
