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Meanings of so scanty in inglés

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Usage of so scanty in inglés
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Though the costume of both sexes is so scanty, the proprieties are observed.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
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The grass was so scanty that there was not enough to support the animals.
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
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If the labour-saving appliances were so scanty indoors, they were not more numerous outside.
Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago / Personal recollections ...
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It was hardly worth mentioning, it was so scanty.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
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The supply was so scanty for the thousands of prisoners that it was always exhausted before sunrise.
Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons / A Personal Experienc...
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For twenty days the travellers saw no human being, so scanty was the population of these plains.
A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II
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But this information, so scanty and yet so conclusive, by no means satisfied the curiosity of the women.
A Knight of the Nets
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The records of this period are so scanty that every detail acquires a certain importance for Michelangelo's biographer.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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I marvel that you should be satisfied with so scanty a provision of gentility in the olden time, Dickon.
The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna
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Our luggage, though it is so scanty, is of incalculable value to us, and must be brought thither also.
The American Family Robinson / or, The Adventures of a Family lo...
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Are my ideas so scanty?
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
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The vegetation which covers this wall is so scanty, that the eye can follow the lines of the calcareous strata.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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Still these supplies were so scanty and precarious that in the intervals between them he was put to great straits.
Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
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The vegetable food of the inhabitants, though, from their want of industry, not very abundant, was not altogether so scanty.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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It had been swaddled up, but in rags so scanty that in its struggles it had freed itself from its tatters.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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The sweetbreads were so scanty, the butchers did not even offer them for sale; the lambs had fed on dry food.
Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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