dearths

"dearths" of "actual" revolutionary science, and who demand to know whether a particular spinster aunt is a neo-Molotovian Sputnikist, aren't interested in a post-patriarchal society at all!

I Blame The Patriarchy 2009

In larger cities, the pre-modern laboring poor commanded various shades of wheat, and Parisians adamantly rejected non-wheaten loaves even in dearths.

The Rise of Nations Steven L. Kaplan 2011

The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and what soever, in offending people, joineth and knitteth them in a common cause.

The Essays 2007

“‘Within three years, there will be no more famines and dearths.’”

Hung Lou Meng 2003

But behold, he stands at the door & knocks, by treasons, by plagues, by the hammer of dearths, discontents, fires, inundations, especially by the word; his locks are wet with waiting.

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

"'Within three years, there will be no more famines and dearths.'"

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

” But as the giraffe does actually exist in large numbers in S. Africa, and as some of the largest antelopes in the world, taller than an ox, abound there, why should we doubt that, as far as size is concerned, intermediate gradations could formerly have existed there, subjected as now to severe dearths.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

It can thus obtain food beyond the reach of the other Ungulata or hoofed animals inhabiting the same country; and this must be a great advantage to it during dearths.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

So under nature with the nascent giraffe the individuals which were the highest browsers, and were able during dearths to reach even an inch or two above the others, will often have been preserved; for they will have roamed over the whole country in search of food.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

The causes and motives of seditions are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and whatsoever, in offending people, joineth and knitteth them in a common cause.

XV. Of Seditions and Troubles 1909