scant

• The question is whether someone who is so little known and has what even Republicans describe as a scant résumé has the authority to make those attacks credible —  Sweetness & Light
• As soon as the curtain had thus dropped which had divided him from the Emperor's representative and his companion, he bowed to the former as low as the rotund dimensions of his person would allow; but his hasty arrival, the effort of strength he had made, and his astonishment at the appearance of the most powerful personage in the Nile Province in the building entrusted to his care, so utterly took away his breath--of which he at all times was but "scant"--that he was unable even to stammer out a suitable greeting. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
• But scant are the occasions, and few there are who know them. —  Beatrice
• But the charm had gone out of the tribute; and looking at the picture, he thought how scant was the justice it did her. —  The Golden Road
• My prayers were scant, my offerings few, —  The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace

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