But even if their resources had been scantier their co-operation would have been very welcome if they had satisfied the authorities that they were as non-political as the Americans.
The native fauna, especially in the families to which the larger mammals belong, was poorer than that of western North America and far scantier than that of the southern parts of Africa in the same latitude.
But as we do not yet hear any particular Use in this Petticoat, or that it contains any thing more than what was supposed to be in those of Scantier Make, we are wonderfully at a loss about it.
As I proceeded in my Journey I observed the Petticoat grew scantierand scantier, and about threescore Miles from London was so very unfashionable, that a Woman might walk in it without any manner of Inconvenience.
The eastern districts of the zone have a shorter and less severe cold weather than the western, an earlier and heavier monsoon, but scantier winter rains.
The last he values only for their wool; out of which his garments are woven; and which has replaced the scantier fleece of the vicuna and guanaco,--the material used by him in days gone by.
The flora of the Hawaiian Islands is far scantier than that of the South Sea groups, and cannot compare with that of many other tropical as well as temperate regions.
Now scantier wound for scanty body show, And scantierblood for scanty wound let now.
Scanty indeed were their prices, scantier were her earnings, and scantierstill the daily fare which the poor needle-woman was able to set before her children.
It is possible that Miss Rose had adopted a scantier and lighter method of attire than had prevailed with preceding dancers.
The older and scantier underlying ruins are supposed to be those of the once large and prosperous city of Itil or Atel (Etel, Idl) of the Arab geographers, a residence of the khan of the Khazars, destroyed by the Russians in 969.
The lines of the north and middle walls have been ascertained from the remnants still existing in the 18th century and the scantier traces now visible.
Shame is this even for them that come after to hear; how so goodly and great a folk of the Achaians thus vainly warred a bootless war, and fought scantier enemies, and no end thereof is yet seen.
The beard is pointed, the hair grey, scantier and more nearly white than in Janssen’s picture at the Royal College of Physicians.
The hair is scantier and the face is that of an older man than in the Merton College Portrait (No.
He still took it, and his claret with it, which the doctor had ordered him to take; but he took it with scantier and scantier appetite; talking less over his wine, and falling into a strange and brooding listlessness.
But though you fancy to yourself that it is so, how can your tears have become scantier than they were?
But my tears are scantier by far than they were in years gone by.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scantier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
