All 12 Uses of
scarcity
in
Gone with the Wind
- The first was the scarcity of girls of marriageable age.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- White flour was scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.†
Chpt 2.12
- The Yankee blockade about the Confederate ports had tightened, and luxuries such as tea, coffee, silks, whalebone stays, colognes, fashion magazines and books were scarce and dear.†
Chpt 2.12
- Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.†
Chpt 2.12
- The rise always came, for with the increasing scarcity of necessities, prices leaped higher by the month.†
Chpt 2.13
- Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce, ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.†
Chpt 2.16
- Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.†
Chpt 3.17
- His soft brown eyes followed her every movement, large, round as dollars, a childish bewilderment in them as though her own scarce-hidden fears had been communicated to him.†
Chpt 3.21
- But the fading hopes of the Confederacy weighed less heavily on Scarlett than his remark about the scarcity of food.†
Chpt 3.28
- Men were scarce, girls had to marry someone and Tara had to have a man.†
Chpt 3.30
- What I mean is with the scarcity of men in the neighborhood, Will could marry most any of the girls.†
Chpt 4.40
- Times had changed, money was scarce, but nothing had altered the rule of Southern life that families always made room gladly for indigent or unmarried female relatives.†
Chpt 4.41
Definition:
-
(scarcity) shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)