This was the quelling they brought, a scantness of drink that seized him.
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Then immediately, through the scantness of the apartment, he heard the outer bell resound.
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Wasn't there a good deal of talk about the scantness of some of the ladies' dresses?
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Her satin dress was a mere sheath, so conspicuous by its severity and scantness that every one in the dining-room stared.
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Serkin's sense of awe before the grandeur of the works that he performed throughout his life is suggested by the scantness of his discography.
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This is not as unlikely as it seems because the mining methods of the time had exhausted the available coal stocks and that their existed an "exhorbitant dearth and scantness of fewale within the Realme."Hall, Page 29 He was the doctor for the pit and recalls that when the pit was drained, William Ralston, the ganger, found the old workmen's tools and their bones at the coal face.
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Elizabeth Yates wrote a Newbery Medal winning biographical novel entitled Amos Fortune, Free Man in 1950.American Library Association Fortune is featured on a New Hampshire historical marker (number 13) along New Hampshire Route 124 in Jaffrey. A 1997 short film by Matthew Buckingham, Amos Fortune Road, meditates on the scantness and fragility of the surviving historical record regarding Amos Fortune.Amos Fortune Road F. Alexander Magoun's 1964 novel Amos Fortune's Choice gives a fictional biography of Fortune's life.
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Dr. Duguid states in the late 18th century that the Doura pits had not been worked since the time of Mary Queen of Scots (1542–1587), when they had supplied coal to the Palace of Holyrood and Edinburgh Castle.Service, page 117. This is not as unlikely as it seems because the mining methods of the time had exhausted the available coal stocks and that their existed an "exhorbitant dearth and scantness of fewale within the Realme."Hall, Page 29 He was the doctor for the pit and recalls that when the pit was drained, William Ralston, the ganger, found the old workmen's tools and their bones at the coal face.
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McGill on May 15, 1874 Organized intercollegiate football was first played in the state of Virginia and the Southern United States when Washington & Lee defeated VMI 4 to 2. Some industrious students of the two schools organized a game for October 23, 1869 - but it was rained out. Students of the University of Virginia were playing pickup games of the kicking-style of football as early as 1870, and some accounts even claim it organized a game against Washington and Lee College in 1871, but no record has been found of the score of this contest. Due to scantness of records of the prior matches some will claim Virginia v.
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This is not as unlikely as it seems because the mining methods of the time had exhausted the known accessible coal stocks and that their existed an "exhorbitant dearth and scantness of fewale within the Realme".Hall, Page 29 In the 18th century and before, Dowra (sic), was a 'household word' in the district due to the excellent quality of the coal it produced.Dobie, Page 131 Coal workings and wastes at Monkridding near Kilwinning were recorded by Timothy Pont in 1608, extending between 50 and , associated with the limestone.Dobie, Pages 332–333 In the 1660s coal mining activities intensified on the Eglinton estates, partly to supply the needs of the Irish who had none.
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