There was a great dearth of officers, staff officers as well as the others.

We must supply for the great dearth of love.

There came at last a year of great dearth.

So, Wellington's got this great dearth of wetlands.

The drought in Bengal, a few years ago, might probably have occasioned a very great dearth.

Next, winter brought a great dearth of food.

Now in all the region round about Sugar Grove school-house there was a great dearth of sensation.

There was a great dearth of cannon.

The Christians, suffering a great dearth of provisions, asked each other, 'Can we feed all those people?'

But in the days of the Civil War there was a great dearth of skilful manipulators of the key.

Firm, steadfast, self-consistent men are to be chosen as friends, and of this kind of men there is a great dearth.

But if the wind arise at the rising of the sun, then it betokeneth great dearth among beasts and cattle this year.

Just at this time there was a great dearth on the stage of people with lovely diction, and Lillie Langtry had it.

In the days of Joel, the son of Pethuel, there was a great dearth, because (as is said in Joel i.

"In their time (i. e. about the fifth or sixth year of Claudius) a great dearth happened in Judea."

'It pleased God,' said Edward Winslow, in speaking of this inflict ion, 'to send a great dearth for our further punishment.'