Scantier

The scantier were the notes that were given him by those who had heard the debate, the more he had to draw on his imagination. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

The pasture, however, was so thin that it was necessary to graze the cattle over wide stretches of ground, and the farther they went into the interior the scantier was the pasture and the larger therefore did the area of land become over which a farmer let his oxen or sheep run. ❋ James Bryce Bryce (1880)

Schlussel prefers to see Tink in something scantier? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Means are scantier still at Blackpool, who have already achieved the unthinkable by climbing out of the Championship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NEW DELHI -- India's annual monsoon rains this year will be scantier than what was expected earlier, paring output of key crops and slowing economic expansion in the Asian nation struggling to boost growth amid the ongoing global slowdown. ❋ Debiprasad Nayak (2009)

Since grooms are usually somewhat older than brides, the sequence of larger and scantier birth cohorts caused alternating and significant shortages in the number of male and female marriage candidates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On the flip side, a Clinton matchup with Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee could be to her favor, allowing her to more ably contrast her Senate and White House national security experience with their scantier foreign-policy résumés. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I understand you to say, Ischomachus, that the weaker soil must receive a scantier dose of seed? ❋ Unknown (2007)

That slid precipitously to $204 billion in August and an even scantier $192 billion in September, for a total $958 billion in the quarter. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But many are wondering as to how the military is coping with the pitfalls that its soldiers experienced owing to lack of resources and modern equipment to keep them more than at par with the measly band of terrorists, whose number is scantier compared to the military elements now operating in Basilan and some parts of Sulu. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lank and long is Birdalone the sweet, with legs that come forth bare and browned from under her scant grey coat and scantier smock beneath, which was all her raiment save when the time was bitter, and then, forsooth, it was a cloak of goat-skin that eked her attire: for the dame heeded little the clothing of her; nor did ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Thebans and the rest were no less anxious to get out of the country, though for other reasons, partly because the army was melting away under their eyes day by day, partly because the necessities of life were growing daily scantier, so much had been either fairly eaten up and pillaged or else recklessly squandered and reduced to ashes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In a scantier supply of light, he might have doubted the identity of that worn man, so old, and grey, and bent; but with a blaze of lamps upon his gnarled and knotted head, he knew Will Fern as soon as he stepped forth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For all other property, the Utopians will have a scantier respect; even money unspent by a man, and debts to him that bear no interest, will at his death stand upon a lower level than these things. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

I have had many a harder bed than that I shall sleep on to-night, and many a scantier meal than honest Phil Murphy gave me on the evening I ran away from school. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The trees were smaller and scantier here, owing to the rocky nature of the ground, which sloped rather rapidly down; but it was moist and overgrown with mosses, ferns, creepers, and low shrubs, all of the liveliest green. ❋ Unknown (2004)