The more glaring the contrast through the exiguity of the Capitalist class and its proportionately large individual holdings of the means of production the stronger this feeling. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If one day it should fall to the ground, it may emit a cloud of dust and leave visible ruins; but, less material even than a palace on the stage, though it has not the same exiguity, it will subside in the magic universe without letting the fall of its heavy blocks of stone tarnish, with anything so vulgar as sound, the chastity of the prevailing silence. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Compiled By Frank Sidgwick (N/A)
If we look simply at the magnitude of the results obtained, compared with the exiguity of the resources at command, -- if we remember that out of the small Kingdom of Sardinia grew united Italy, we must come to the conclusion that Count Cavour was undoubtedly a statesman of marvellous skill and prescience. ❋ A.E. Marty (N/A)
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. ❋ P��o Baroja (1914)
The absence of rugs or carpets and curtains, the polish and exiguity of the furniture, the general air of having no more in the rooms than that which will just serve the purposes of life did not suit his sense of abundance and luxury. ❋ Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 (1912)
One does not contrast the exiguity of a pint of nitric acid in an engraver's studio with the hundreds of gallons of water in the cisterns of his house. ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)
It is not very easy to see how such very trifling surnames as this last came into existence, but its exiguity is surpassed in the case of a prominent French airman who bears the appropriately buoyant name of ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)
The marooned seaman saves his sanity by cutting notches in a stick, the solitary prisoner by friendship with a mouse; and when life is reduced to the last exiguity of narrowness, the interests of life will be narrow too. ❋ Dawson, William J (1907)
His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable. ❋ Mary [Contributor] Beaumont (1900)
It was not till Irene had accused him of being sarcastic and had confided in him that "the girls" were furious with her for letting him talk to her so long at his aunt's garden-party, that he awoke to the exiguity of his surroundings; and then it was with a touch of irritation that he noticed Mr. Carstyle's inconspicuous profile bent above a newspaper in one of the lower windows. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
The month of May saw her back in the rooms she had declared she would never set foot in, and after her long sojourn among the echoing vistas of Saint Desert the exiguity of her ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
The exiguity of costume in the ballet caused her indeed to glance in a frightened sort of way at Mrs. McMurray, who reassured her with a friendly smile, but the music and the maze of motion and the dazzle of colour soon held her senses captive, and when the curtain came down she sighed like one awaking from a dream. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
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. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
In the privacy of a four-wheeler, on her way to a charity cottage (one of a row) which by the exiguity of its dimensions and the simplicity of its accommodation, might well have been devised in kindness as a place of training for the still more straitened circumstances of the grave, she was forced to hid from her own child a blush of remorse and shame. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
Sydney Smith declared that when Lord John first contested Devonshire the burly electors were disappointed by the exiguity of their candidate, but were satisfied when it was explained to them that he had once been much larger, but was worn away by the anxieties and struggles of the Reform Bill of 1832. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
She thought of the difficulty she had in persuading Delafield to allow himself even necessary comforts and conveniences; a laugh, involuntary, and not without tenderness, crossed her face as she recalled a tale he had told her at Camaldoli, of the contempt excited in a young footman of a smart house by the mediocrity and exiguity of his garments and personal appointments generally. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Thus it is observed that when such matters occur in other countries they become extinct spontaneously through lack of attention and exiguity of interest. ❋ 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� (1882)
But to make up for the exiguity of his financial resources, Ugo had from his youth obtained social success. ❋ Unknown (1881)
That is, it was one of those diminutive structures which are known at French watering-places as chalets, and, with an exiguity of furniture, are let for the season to families that pride themselves upon their powers of contraction. ❋ Unknown (1879)
That exiguous [hamlet] [south] of the [holy city]. ❋ DSLLSD (2017)
