How To Use Scant In A Sentence

Two separate guys (guy in trucker hat who I think is the liquid metal Terminator/Davey Scantino) and the other is Bathroom-Using Man who wore no cap. Matthew Yglesias » Anticlimax
Reference: "Effect of ozonolysis on bioconversion of miscanthus to bioethanol". RedOrbit News - Technology
This meant that events presumably of interest mainly to Poles - such as the 1944 Rising - would often be scanted by the media.
My favourite variety of thresher is miscanthus, otherwise known as elephant grass. Times, Sunday Times
Scantily clad go-go girls give the crowd something to look at.

It was an enjoyable evening but the danger of where we seem to be going kept reasserting itself like a descant to the pleasant sound of casual conversation.
Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
The front garden slopes away from the house, with the incline packed with an interesting array of shrubbery and tall flowers - white flowering eucryphia and myrtle blend with statuesque hoheriay and elegant miscanthus grasses.
The liberty of the citizen, and false imprisonment were discanted on in a loud and moving manner. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In Engla
I have several daylilies and tradescantias with well developed flower buds.
One robe each was kept, one ax, one tin pail, and a scant supply of bacon and flour. Chapter V
We are also concerned that scant attention is being paid to the cost of running the services promised. Times, Sunday Times
You'll notice this on cranesbill geraniums, alchemilla, dicentra, nepeta, thalictrum and tradescantia, among others. Times, Sunday Times
The scanty grasses were long ago turned into sun-cured hay by the fierce summer heats. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Her periods are short, her menses scant, and before each menstruation she experiences low back pain.
He stayed in the shadows while the scant dozen passengers disembarked from the wooden-hulled steam-powered passenger ferry Virginia V, just in from Seattle via the Colvos Passage. Excerpt: Spade & Archer by Joe Gores
I can't get along on my scanty pay.
The girl singers were asked to descant on the tune.
And the rising sun met the falling star and flashed into coruscant life, a roaring tide of fiery might that batted away cold beams and sent an incandescent lance of godly light in retaliation.
During the descant finale, however, instinct won out.
Eight wickets at 45 apiece in first three Tests did him scant justice. Times, Sunday Times
One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources. FIRECRACKER
His scanty remarks are limited to generalities.
The English cottage has a rheumatic floor of beaten earth or tile; its rooms are few and small, and very dark; the water-supply is scanty and most inconvenient; its chimney smokes; mice and rats find secure refuge in the thatch; the masses of clinging vines make it damp and earwiggy; but what a lovely bit it is in the landscape! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
A costly and illogical drain on its scant resources.
Unfortunately the minuses of the disc so outweigh the scant positives.
Potentially damning physical or forensic evidence is scant in the Peters case.
But perhaps this scants heaven in favor of earth.
When we see how they are not being transparent with their members it shows very scant regard for the founding philosophy. Times, Sunday Times
These visits often result in antibiotic prescriptions or advice to use decongestants, antihistamines, and cough suppressants, even though the evidence supporting the efficacy of these medications in children is scant.
But with the dollar on the floor and clients in scant supply, it was hard to focus on much else. Times, Sunday Times
Its rise to popularity has been attributed to a marketing strategy that included the use of scantily clad spokesmodels.
My mom had made us taco salad, which we washed down with Northwest beers, and showered & hit the hay for a scant five hours of sleep.
According to the campaigners, the scant resources mean crooks can continue unchecked. Times, Sunday Times
This is exactly what one would expect from the linguistic evidence and the written record, scanty though the latter is.
Richly scanted dark berry and plum aroma with complex fruitcake , richness and resonantly depth.
The terms of our law, which are not empty sounds, will hardly find words that answer them in the Spanish or Italian, no scanty languages; much less, I think, could any one translate them into the Caribbee or Westoe tongues: and the versura of the Romans, or corban of the Jews, have no words in other languages to answer them; the reason whereof is plain, from what has been said. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The vegetation types of the mid-montane subzone are mixed mid-montane forest, Castanopsis forest, Nothofagus forest, coniferous forest, mid-montane swamp forest, mid-montane sedge-grass swamp, mid-montane Phragmites grass swamps, mid-montane Miscanthus grassland and succession on abandoned gardens. Lorentz National Park, Indonesia
The glass shard of a building makes the dingy three-and five-story buildings next door seem dingier, and the seamy building boasting adult videos and scantily-clad mannequins even seamier. A Sliver Shines Above Midtown
A losing bonus point was scant reward for their panache in the opening period. Times, Sunday Times
They produce goods with scant regard for quality.
The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf. John Gabriel Borkman
She said "scantily-clothed" women in the clips were "gyrating" around men, and giving AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Pulchricoma Venus, and Cupid himself was yellow haired, in aurum coruscante et crispante capillo, like that neat picture of Narcissus in Callistratus; for so Anatomy of Melancholy
I haven't seen it yet, and don't intend to, because altho' I was a - fan is too strong a word, I was a *fan* of Battle of the Planets and Starblazers and Voltron, but I watched and liked the series when it was running tho' I thought it rather simplistic and corny by comparison to the other shows I mention - I have heard so much that sounds depressing and Othering about it as a liberal woman, that I don't really need to spend any of my scanty budget on seeing CGI and explosions. Proper Credits for Transformers
Luctui dies indicebatur cum liberi nascantur, cum frater abit, amicus ab hospite captivus domum redeat, puella desponsetur. Anatomy of Melancholy
Where salmon fishermen once enjoyed sockeye, silver, and chum seasons from July through December, they can now fish only for chum, and the season lasts a scant four or five days.
He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded cleuch, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered. The Monastery
Ken Clarke was so close to the action that when the choirboys did their descant, it looked as though it was coming from him, and he had a surprisingly high, sweet voice. Royal wedding guest list: perplexing – and where was naughty Uncle Gary?
Since I've never had any tradescantias previously, I don't know what to compare it to, but I look forward to dividing this one and getting a few more.
What now becomes of Dr. Miller's so-called scanty and superficial convolutions with small cranial measurements? The Southern Sanitarium. Vol. 1, no. 4 (January 1, 1897)
He was a seventh child and his mother, left a widow in early life and compelled to earn her livelihood, saw scant chance of educating him when the kindly assistance of a Canon of the Cathedral and President of the Collége de Noyon relieved her difficulties. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
African descant, which is why they dominant most sports where this explosive power is an asset. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
Commuters were given scant or incorrect information regarding the delays. Times, Sunday Times
The wind itself answered in a kind of obbligato descant: The Witch is dead! Son of a Witch
Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction. The Drama
Hallowell found scanty evidence for bear ceremonialism in the Central Algonquian region, and failed to report any among Northern Iroquoian speakers.
Criscantoi Vaz was a sturdy-spirited man of much presence, of great sagacity, of considerable quiet strength. KING OF DREAMS
Seconds later, with scant time to jump out of the way, in a flurry of sticks, leaves and flashing lights the boys in blue rush past at well over the speed limit.
Giant larkspurs thrust up their flower-rods, between the dentated foliage of which gaped the mouths of tawny snapdragons, while the schizanthus reared its scanty leaves and fluttering blooms, that looked like butterflies 'wings of sulphur hue splashed with soft lake. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
The said Cassekey also set up his abode in their tent; kept all his tribe away from the woman and child and aged man; kindled fires; caused, as a delicate attention, the only hog remaining on the wreck to be killed and brought to them for a midnight meal; and, in short, comported himself so hospitably, and with such kindly consideration toward the broad-brimmed Quaker, that we are inclined to account him the better-bred fellow of the two, in spite of his scant costume of horse-tail and belt of straw. Stories of Childhood
The scant supply of mortgages will make many people minded to stay put. Times, Sunday Times
About a mile behind and to the east of the village the hills commence, but they are very barren, being covered with scanty coarse grass and scattered trees of the Melaleuca cajuputi, from the leaves of which the celebrated cajeput oil is made. The Malay Archipelago
Farmers who had already lost their last rabi crops due to the scanty rainfall are now losing their kharif crops, which have been badly damaged due to non arrival of rains.
After the burial, for which there were minute prescriptions, the son had to wear the mourning sackcloth for twenty-seven months, emaciating his body with scanty food, and living in a rude hut erected for the purpose near the grave. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
In the second act, Colker's sleek, scantily-clad dancers writhe seductively in and out of a clear plastic tank.
Nay, he goes even so far as to say that the passage-work is of the usual kind met with in the compositions of Hummel and his successors, and that the cantilena in the larghetto is in the jejune style of Hummel; the last movement also receives but scanty and qualified praise. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
His conception of power is reflexive and scants the complexity of New York's political culture.
Scotland, despite that forbidding losing margin, did finally find the performance we had been waiting for all season and Ireland looked unlikely championship material as their visitors got stuck in with scant regard to reputation.
In addition, while Dole faced criticism that she had no prior elective experience, there was scant attention paid to the dearth of women in executive positions of power in the United States.
At one point, prior to descanting on conservatism with a small ‘c’, she says sharply, ‘Don't interrupt me during this bit ’, but I didn't really mind - it gave me time to eat.
In practice, it was the spaces in between the scant few megastructures that were built that diluted the concept; too large to accommodate themselves into the existing fabric of city living, yet not distinct enough to act as attractors.
Carter had paid them scant attention; he was too deeply engrossed in the matter at hand, and confident that his bodyguard could handle these interfering snoopers if the pigmies and the Dark Ones could not. "Once in a Blue Moon" by Harl Vincent, part 5
Yaws (frambesia) is found in humid equatorial countries, where transmission is favored by scanty clothing and skin trauma.
FORMULA NUMBER 23: Cranberry Bladder Defense: cranberry extract, uva ursi extract, fu ling, echinacea, coptis, polyporus, marshmallow, alisma; use for bladder infections from heat, with scanty, dark painful urination. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
The 1 per cent dividend yield gives scant reward. Times, Sunday Times
This fact accords with results of previous studies, but given the scant data and the magnitude of the values, no conclusions can be drawn.
The pockets of the farmers, on the other hand, will reluctantly yield but scanty supplies, in the unwelcome shape of impositions on their houses and lands; and personal property is too precarious and invisible a fund to be laid hold of in any other way than by the imperceptible agency of taxes on consumption.
'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and a head on which the fair hair was already growing scantily, receding a little from the fine intellectual brows. Robert Elsmere
Teenage boys are more likely to be attracted by her scanty clothing and big guns.
This he had placed in what he called the parlor that morning, after dusting it carefully and putting a fresh pillow case on the scanty pillow where Amy's head had lain. The Cromptons
There was a very scanty cinderous fire in the grate by which they sat; and there was a tent bedstead in the room with a bed upon it and a coverlet. The Uncommercial Traveller
Although this seems reasonable, the evidence offered is scanty.
The medical bulletins issued to the press do scant justice to the work that goes on behind the scenes. Times, Sunday Times
Pre – Adamite doctrine has been preached with but scant success in Christendom. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The pieces share the traits typical of their genre in the later 15th century: a treble-dominated texture, probably intended for texted performance of the top voice and solmized or instrumental performance of the lower voices; a contrapuntal structure built around a duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor; a break roughly halfway through corresponding to the division in the poetic form; and a prevailing line-for-line agreement of music and refrain text. Archive 2009-05-01
They, along with the self sown tradescantias, violets, hollyhocks and dame's rocket are part of the greater urban garden.
And yet he was warned by manie strange woonders (as the common people did discant) to refraine from these euill doings: for the Thames did rise with such high springs and tides, that manie townes were drowned, and much hurt doone in places about London, and elsewhere. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
Only scanty information could be gleaned from POWs.
The steep, descending sides are very soft and sodden, supporting a scanty growth of vegetation, including the small burr known as the "biddy-bid. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
He prances through the casinos with scantily clad showgirls draped on each arm (although he is happily married).
Talis namque materia est ut una dubitatione succisa innumerabiles aliae uelut hydrae capita succrescant, nec ullus fuerit modus, nisi quis eas uiuacissimo mentis igne coerceat. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Today, a scant two years later, as chaos erupts in that great expanse of geography that once was the Soviet Union, our optimism is at home with a severe autumn cold. Canada's World Role
Sir, — Your being personally present in this sever sea - son which we know stroungly impresses your mind with a scene of their suffering circumstances, therefor having no doupt of your humanity to relieve them, and justis to hear their complaints when founded on justis and reason, gives us, the commanding officers of the regiments in the 3 1 * and 4 th brigades, to lay the complaints of the soldiers to the officers of the scantity of their present alowance of their provision under the heavey fatigue this garrison is now subject to, which is more sever than at any other time, in hailing provisions, forage and material for the barracks over and above the supply of wood for the garrison and ourselves; and the beef being thin and not any vegetables at this season to be procured as in time pass. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
I live in the Bingley area where a scant amount of my council tax is spent (be it only on my dustbin being emptied).
Make a French dressing of two tablespoonfuls of oil, half a tablespoonful (scant) of vinegar, one-fourth a teaspoonful, each, of paprica and salt. Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes
From earliest morning the street that led to the Castle had seen a strange procession of poor and aged women pass, carrying flowers grown in window-gardens in the scant sunlight of the long Northern winterloved up, they say in Danish for grown; in no other way could it be done. Elizabeth tells her Story
Tue 11/24/09 3: 54 PM to the contrary, I think the majority of movies have women and girls portrayed in scanty clothes and objectified roles. 'New Moon' polls: Switching teams? Bella really the best role model? | EW.com
He suffered from pain in the loins, scanty urine, hematuria, and generalized edema.
This hole was a scant .23 inches in diameter.
No food, no clogs and their poor bodies barely covered with scanty clothing, how can they give their minds to their lessons?
Pegu: if any contrary wind had come, we had throwen many of our things ouer-boord: for we were so pestered with people and goods, that there was scant place to lie in. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
He may not have broken any laws but it is clear that what scanty guidelines exist to control patronage and cronyism were stretched at will to accommodate his ‘suggestions’.
Then he ran a wildly popular purge of gangsters and corrupt policemen with death sentences and scant regard for legal niceties. Times, Sunday Times
Red-gold fire showed through the shrivelling skin, and then all at once it flared into coruscant life, a pillar of blinding plasma that flashed from floor to ceiling and left a smear of superheated ash on the walls.
The name "organum" was dropped and the new system became known as tenor and descant, the tenor being the principal or foundation melody, and the descant or descants (for there could be as many as there were parts or voices to the music) taking the place of the organum. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
Van Remsen, curator of birds at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, said that this new frogmouth genus serves as a poignant reminder that birds of the tropics, particularly from southeast Asia to Melanesia, have been paid scant attention by science. Archive 2007-04-01
She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car.
Many people who play the lottery tend to forget about, or pay scant attention to, the odds of winning.
All tradescantias tend to lose their lower leaves with age and should be propagated regularly.
Kalandars sit upon a sofa at the side of the estrade, and seated the Caliph and Ja’afar and Masrur on the other side of the saloon; after which she called the Porter, and said, “How scanty is thy courtesy! now thou art no stranger; nay, thou art one of the household.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Most of the cattle was what we commonly call Zebu or Brahma, some small groups of, those known as criollos, and some scant thousands of Holsteins, and a few head of Brown Swiss. CASTRO ADDRESSES ANIMAL SCIENCE CONGRESS
I do not say "scanty;" on the contrary, there is plenty of it -- a great deal too much of it -- but it is the quality, the nature of the knowledge, which I quarrel with. Science & Education
Hardly wearing out its welcome at a scant 50 minutes, the feature is accompanied by the shorts Intent, Strap 'Em Down!
One of his wooden-made yankee clocks is here – its case displaying "a most elegant picture" of Cupid, in frilled trowsers and morocco boots, the American prototype of the little god not being allowed to appear so scantily clad as he is generally represented. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
The limited information provided on this test was scant and imprecise, and I found it of no assistance.
There is scant enthusiasm for a real leader; they seem stolid, harrumphing about white papers.
It shows a scantily clad woman talking on the phone. Times, Sunday Times
Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty _robe de chambre_ of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
Scantiness of modesty is short of knowledge.
Prior to the Revolution there was scant institutional evidence of deep-rooted nationalist sentiment.
-- While some princes may be embruing their hands in the blood of their subjects, this man is offering up his prayers to God to preserve all mankind: -- While some ministers are sending forth fleets and armies to wreak their own private vengeance on a brave and uncorrupted people, this solitary man is feeding, from his own scanty allowance, the birds of the air. A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2)
She does not dress scantily when exercising, even though she has an attractive figure.
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Apart from spreading fear, many rioters and looters showed scant regard for human life. Times, Sunday Times
-- Fever may be accompanied by pain especially of the the head and loins; a sense of heaviness or general lassitude; deficiency of either secretion, or of all of them; dryness of skin; thirst; nausia; scanty and high colored urine; delirium; constipation; jactation; &c. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
Farmers who had already lost their last rabi crops due to the scanty rainfall are now losing their kharif crops, which have been badly damaged due to non arrival of rains.
Yet there is scant evidence that doctors targeted by these organizations have lied on the stand.
The earliest method was to derive a contratenor altus from the written discantus by singing the same notes simultaneously at the 4th below, which produced essentially a chain of what would now be called 6-3 chords, varied and punctuated by single 8-5 chords, though with some decorative passing notes and suspensions, particularly at cadences, and on occasion more licentious dissonances. Archive 2008-02-01
Among the characteristics of the yellow or xanthodermic race are: deficient length of the limbs; total height 7 to 7.5 heads; mamma papillata; brownish-yellow to light yellow skin, coarse and black hair of the head, with a round cross - section; hair on the body scant; inclination to brachycephaly; broad, short jaw; slight frontal ridge; short, small, strong foot with moderate arch. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
AN avaricious fenman, who kept a very scanty table, dining one Saturday with his son at an ordinary in Cambridge, whispered in his ear, "Tom, you must eat for to-day and to-morrow. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
The dead had long since been cast over the side, their scant possessions and weapons cradled in their embrace.
A relapse; little sleep; urine throughout of a good color, but thin; the alvine evacuations were thin, bilious, acrid, very scanty, black, and fetid; a white, smooth sediment in the urine; had a sweat, and experienced a perfect crisis on the eleventh day. Of The Epidemics
Contrary to its reputation for cerise lace thongs, the high street is rolling out seriously pretty scanties the season. Times, Sunday Times
A short cut, which we took up the hill face, led us through a rough scrub of berberis and wild daphne (the former just showing green and the latter in flower) until, somewhat scant of breath, we regained the road, and followed it to the left up a gorge. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Our scanty stock of provisions and water was gone; but there was no danger of starvation, for the generous product of the henneries and dairies of Bolinas filled the vessel's hold -- albeit raw eggs and butter without bread might only serve as a barrier against famine. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
An advertising adage from the sixties listed the three most powerful visual draws in order of effectiveness: puppies, babies, and scantily dressed babes.
All that had gone before was a scanty flowerage -- he was the perfect fruit. A Mere Accident
Scantily clad, bikinied dancing girls elevated the temperatures of the male fans, shaking their booties during breaks in the action. Misty
He saw no fire suppression, but scant brush and ample spacing of pines where wildfires regularly moved through the forests.
One opened her coat to reveal a scantily clad body.
More solid areas of the tumor were composed of cells with round nuclei and scant cytoplasm.
Even creepier is the fact that many of the female characters are scantily clad, and hot (the Little Mermaid wasn't always depicted popping out of a tiny bikini top). The Shame of Family Films
Now a commonplace person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
The minute neutrophile granules of the _polymorphonuclear_ leucocytes are often very scanty, and sometimes apparently absent. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
This tone, with a long descant at the beginning of each verse, and a long and solemn conclusion, represents the weeping of the Church over His death. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 2 - The Masses of Palm Sunday, Holy Tuesday and Spy Wednesday
There are two distinct textures for the polyphonic works: a “discant” style, in which the two voice parts generally move together (as in the conductus and the Benedicamus tropes), and an “organal” style in which the upper voice part sings a rhapsodic melody against the long-held notes of a lower tenor voice based on a liturgical chant (as in adiutor an the tropped Kyrie: Cunctipotens). Archive 2009-04-01
By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind. MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
Not even abandoned tents lay on the American's campgrounds, just scraps of rubbish and a few scant reminders that only hours previously a force of nine thousand men had bivouacked there.
In Bordeaux, barges must carry chunks of the fuselage up the Garonne River under an 18 th-century bridge that offers scant clearance.
Although the plumy flowers are beautiful, the form, color, and texture of miscanthus foliage is quite striking by itself.
I think we have all seen Coruscant in that other series of dumb movies by that guy Lucas…..prequals they call them……The battle over coruscant in the third film was just as dumb and just as intensive. Most Overrated Movie of 2009: Avatar | MovieChopShop
There was, all the same, an unmistakable descant to yesterday's cheerfully celebratory spectacular. Royal wedding: A peculiarly British day | Editorial
Drop a scant dessertspoonful of the mixture on to lightly oiled oven trays, leaving room for spreading.
Amid the focus on the shrinking of deposit account returns, scant attention has been paid to the charges on overdrafts. Times, Sunday Times
Several processions have been staged, featuring extravagant floats with celebrities and scantily dressed bejeweled dancers from several competing samba schools. Haiti, Brazil Hold Carnival Celebrations
It aned strange that they had made no igements for the care of their houseplants. pradescantias, peperomias, a cissus that ibed to the ceiling on carefully spaced igs, a Joseph's coat, a variegated ivy, all ing down leaves that were limp and parched. Put On By Cunning
Also, as there is a problem of anovulation the ovary does not produce eggs every month, hence the girl suffers from irregular periods (usually delayed) scanty or heavy flow and often has difficulty in conceiving. WN.com - Articles related to Don't eat for two, pregnant women told
Am I to understand your primary concern in this matter is that you and your arty male colleagues will be exposed as the ‘type’ of men who ogle women in scanty spring dresses?
While she is haunted by her dead daughter, she pays scant attention to her live one. The Times Literary Supplement
A scant hour before the three men came to the "showgrounds" their quarry arrived there. The Rose in the Ring
Notably, all aural analogues share the same sinewy, coruscant guitar work.
That would be scant consolation for the economic hardship that would follow. Times, Sunday Times
Suzie, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing, stands there.
He possessed one of those lean, well-proportioned frames which age well, and although his grey hair was thinner it was not scanty. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Amid the focus on the shrinking of deposit account returns, scant attention has been paid to the charges on overdrafts. Times, Sunday Times
So do all slender, strappy-leaved plants, like miscanthus, day lilies, sisyrinchium and pheasant grass. Times, Sunday Times
I made them stand in their scanties and subjected them to the gaze of men with tape measures.
He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded _cleuch_, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered. The Monastery
And Herman Goslin made his scant living by meeting the steamboats and transporting the disembarking passengers, if any, up to the hotel in a gimpy buckboard.
Conventional econometric models typically treat aggregate supply only scantily.
A losing bonus point was scant reward for their panache in the opening period. Times, Sunday Times
To this opinion of Galen, almost all the Greeks and Arabians subscribe, the Latins new and old, internae, tenebrae offuscant animum, ut externae nocent pueris, as children are affrighted in the dark, so are melancholy men at all times, [2665] as having the inward cause with them, and still carrying it about. Anatomy of Melancholy
a scant cup of sugar
The tops of the downs in Southern England still show the scars where primitive men fought their wars or grew their scanty crops; and in the lowland plains an unusual abundance of trees will show you where once a dense forest grew, or you may infer an impassable bog from a muddy field alongside some meandering brook. English Landscape and Personality
Along the way there's a lot of booty-shaking from glamorous assistants and some dazzling close-up magic, not least a perplexing trick in which Whistler's mother is stripped to her scanties.
They've been around since before World War II, but their use on sporting rifles has always been limited to custom guns, and then in scant numbers. Muzzle Brake Pros and Cons
I speak, of course, of Riverdance, with its scantily clad females dancing in unison with men, in a vulgar display of wantonness and unbridled lust.
- Two huge capital ships over coruscant, side by side exchanging shots, explosions all around Worlds in a grain of sand
A couple of scantily dressed girls hoisted themselves on top of them and began dancing, throwing their boas into the crowd.
It would be a major understatement to say that scientific research on gerontophilia is scant compared to the study of other paraphilias, but scattered references do exist. Slate Magazine
In vignettes centering on a fiery local waitress, a seventh-generation fisherman, the doyenne of a fading lesbian power culture, an unrepentant jinx, and other characters for whom the term colorful does scant justice, he introduces a community bound by tradition, superstition, recalcitrance, and a profound, more visceral than affectionate love for the sea. Undefined
In the meanwhile a powerful electric searchlight had been brought over from the interurban tracks a scant mile west of the river line, and the millwheel had been shafted to the big dynamo and was generating current to flash dazzling rays of light across the water. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island
Conventional econometric models typically treat aggregate supply only scantily.
Concern has particularly arisen in view of younger men having paid scant attention to the richness of their culture.
He risked glancing up and saw that the descant spell was working. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
It is difficult to infer anything from such scanty evidence.
Two lawbreaking lunkheads cruise the back roads in a car sporting a racist symbol while their scantily clad cousin objectifies herself for corrupt lawmen, and those are values?
Nothing is done or said that doesn't feel coruscantly correct, dexterously blending private and public events, and making a one-person play convey so many lives, so much history, such an onrush of humanity.
Women should avoid wearing scanty beachwear in rural areas away from hotels and campsites to avoid offending locals.
Gonatodes ocellatus, ocellated gecko, adult male by Daniel Scantlebury — This species is found only on rocky slopes on Tobago and Little Tobago Island. Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb
Landlord discanted very copiously upon the ancient and modern Practise of Robbing upon the Road, and seem'd very much inclin'd to lessen the Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)
As the speckled storm-cock singeth from the scant-leaved hawthorn-bough, Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
They include miscanthus, below, a type of grass, zea mays, a variety of maize, and banana trees. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Scantleberry had admitted that the infringer was his stepson, and we were in the process settling with him shortly before his passing. Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives
With estimable discipline, Smith's inquiry anatomizes vocal volume and pitch, yet rhythm receives scant attention and, not surprisingly, scrutiny of poetic meter is wanting.
Jo Wherry, on violin and treble viol, played an excellent descant solo, and Jonathan Burr, who is able to produce music on the difficult mediaeval cornett, also has a pleasant singing voice.
The plants included miscanthus grass, maize and banana trees. Times, Sunday Times
The stroke badly affected Mr Scantlebury's right side and ability to read and stand.

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