"Scantiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sanctioned by experience, all the great executive duties had been devolved either on committees of congress, or on boards consisting of several members. This unwieldy and expensive system had maintained itself against all the efforts of reason and public utility. But the scantiness of the national means at length prevailed over prejudice, and the several committees and boards yielded to a secretary for foreign affairs, a superintendent of finance, a secretary of war, and a secretary of marine. But so miserably ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) • John Marshall
... done so, what reason have you for regarding three slaves as a mark of my poverty, rather than for considering three freed men as a proof of my wealth? Poor Aemilianus, you have not the least idea how to accuse a philosopher: you reproach me for the scantiness of my household, whereas it would really have been my duty to have laid claim, however falsely, to such poverty. It would have redounded to my credit, for I know that not only philosophers of whom I boast myself a ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius
... ominous scantiness of supply in the market this morning, and the prices beyond most persons—mine among ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... subject. The qualities of the epistolary style most frequently required, are ease and simplicity, an even flow of unlaboured diction, and an artless arrangement of obvious sentiments. But these directions are no sooner applied to use, than their scantiness and imperfection become evident. Letters are written to the great and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity of expression, when the importance of the subject impresses solicitude, or ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson
... it looks ridiculous, mama?" referring anxiously to the scantiness of the skirt and the unblushing exposure ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
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