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  • The rock, exhibiting a dearth of holds and coated with six inches of crumbly rime, did not look promising, but just left of the main prow was a shallow corner glazed with frozen meltwater.†  (source)
  • Many thousands then perished, but the Days of Dearth (1158-60) were at the time of this tale long past and the Hobbits had again become accustomed to plenty.†  (source)
  • My eyes adjust to the dearth of light.†  (source)
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  • It was a fairly awful reminder, the dearth of good memories we had since our move, that my wife was forced to pick Hannibal for her treasure hunt.†  (source)
  • The mere ten executions a day were due not to a dearth of candidates but to the necessity of trying them, and to the difficulty of transporting paperwork and documentation to and from Rome.†  (source)
  • And oh, this dearth of the human physiognomy!†  (source)
  • To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow.†  (source)
  • In the mere exercise of the fancy, however, and the sportiveness of a growing mind, there might be a little more than was observable in other children of bright faculties; except as Pearl, in the dearth of human playmates, was thrown more upon the visionary throng which she created.†  (source)
  • There was a dearth of pens that day in class.†  (source)
  • If there is a dearth of bats, the pigeon must serve us for the offering.†  (source)
  • And as Howard Jones once wrote, "Hopkins, with its large indigent black population, had no dearth of clinical material."†  (source)
  • The physician had asked McAllister how he expected to replace him — there was a dearth of competent doctors in Macao.†  (source)
  • He expounded on the lack of morality in the young, the dearth of organized religion in the home, the school, the workplace.†  (source)
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