We grew touchy on little things, as a misplaced plate, a shortage of firewood, too deep a draught at the nearly empty bucket.

"Then it isn't shortage in provisions that takes you outside," said the Boy.

Some of them prepared for the shortage by buying tracts of hardwood timber.

The mine's good, a sound, rich vein, and the labor conditions aren't bad; but there's one fatal defecta car shortage on the only railroad that reaches it.

Contributing very largely to the establishment of this greatly enlarged class of independent women will be the great shortage for the next decade of marriageable men, due to the killing and disablement of the war.

There was a trifling shortage as compared with the accounts of previous years, so trifling that it astonished him when he reflected upon the amounts which he had paid his two partners.

This, coupled with the acute staff shortage at the Herald then and frequent resignations from staff, meant a junior sub-editor could get enough of an ego-boost to do the front-page layout within a year or so of joining!

This is one reason, in addition to the British blockade, which causes the great fat shortage among the civil population.