All 5 Uses of
scanty
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Hunger was the inscription on the baker's shelves, written in every small loaf of his scanty stock of bad bread; at the sausage-shop, in every dead-dog preparation that was offered for sale.†
Chpt 1.5
- The people rudely pictured as drinking in the wine-shops, croaked over their scanty measures of thin wine and beer, and were gloweringly confidential together.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.†
Chpt 1.5
- Of late, the neglected bed in the Temple Court had known him more scantily than ever; and often when he had thrown himself upon it no longer than a few minutes, he had got up again, and haunted that neighbourhood.†
Chpt 2.13
- Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread.†
Chpt 2.22
Definition:
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(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn