Nothing seemed able to damp its heroismnot scantiness of food, not lack of clothing amidst bitter cold, not miserable quarters, not superior forces of a valiant enemy.

I know I do not exaggerate the scantiness of my resources or the difficulties of my life.

Humboldt has best exhibited the scantiness of finer natural perceptions in Greek and Roman literature, in spite of the grand oceanic anthology of Homer, and the delicate water-coloring of the Greek Anthology and of Horace.

This is the less accountable as, though scanty as regards the number of its species, the natural history of Ireland is full of interest, abounding in problems not even yet fully solved: the very scantiness of its fauna being in one sense, an incentive and stimulus to its study, for the same reason that a language which is on the point of dying out is often of more interest to a philologist than one that is in full life and vigour.

The legislature of Jamaica had stated the scantiness both of water and provisions, as a subject which called for the interference of parliament.