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Meanings of scanty supply in английском

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Usage of scanty supply in английском
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The scanty supply served rather to increase than check the flames.
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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Their scanty supply of bread and water had been consumed in ten days.
And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy
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How could all be fed with the scanty supply of provisions which he possessed.
The Voyages of the "Ranger" and "Crusader" / And what befell the...
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Parched corn, and but a scanty supply of that, was now almost their only subsistence.
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
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Though he toiled very hard, he could, however, obtain but a scanty supply of fish.
Michael Penguyne; Or, Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
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Some have a rich, unexhausted, and, perhaps, inexhaustible soil, and a scanty supply of laborers.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
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This scanty supply was soon exhausted, and the unhappy fugitives became reduced to the greatest distress.
Female Scripture Biography, Volume I
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The goats and the sheep are small, and yield a scanty supply of a somewhat coarse wool.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1: ...
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They took only their rifles, while Natsu packed the scanty supply of food necessary for the day.
Glen of the High North
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The whole army now moved forward to the villages, where a scanty supply of water was procured.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
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At other seasons it affords but a scanty supply of an "aqueous matter" resembling bilgewater.
First Footsteps in East Africa
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We gave them a little biscuit and bread, squeezed out of the already scanty supply for the army.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 03
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There we lay panting, and every now and again moistening our lips from our scanty supply of water.
King Solomon's Mines
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Jasper had not been fishing for pleasure, but merely for food, as his scanty supply was almost gone.
Under Sealed Orders
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The scanty supply of coal which now remains is in most places hard to find and difficult to mine.
The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
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They had food enough to last them for some time; but they had but a scanty supply of water.
Old Jack
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