例文・使い方で印象づける「scant」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...The runners, two in number, are lithe little round-headed Kavirondos, generally, their heads shaved to leave a skull cap, clad in scant ragged garments, and wearing each an anklet of little bells... 
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...TheNegro found scant justice in the local courts against the white man...
W.E.B. Du Bois 「The Negro」
...The comfort of a bed was an unknown luxuryto him; he slept on the floor, on a mattress which in daytime was hiddenwith his scant wardrobe and cooking utensils in a corner, behind a grayfaded curtain...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906」
...Yet he made scant headway, until shewound one hand in his mane, and, still lyingmotionless and stiff, bade him loose his hold on hershoulder...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...And as he wasall-wise, with the eerie wisdom of the highest type of collie, therecan be scant doubt he knew just what that plan entailed...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...A scant three feet of earth could not hide its secret from him...
James Oliver Curwood 「Baree, Son of Kazan」
... Their scant plumage is worthless for millinerypurposes...
Virginia Sharpe Patterson 「Dickey Downy」
...Trapping has again and again proved to be useless on rainynights, unless the rain is scant and a part of the night favorable, inwhich case occasional individuals are taken...
Charles T. Vorhies and Walter P. Taylor 「Life History of the Kangaroo Rat」
...ornata is scant, a considerableamount of information is available concerning its congener,T...
John M. Legler 「Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz」
...We were sitting in the scant shadow of the wagons eating our dinnerwhen we were startled to see a tall, bare-headed man come racing downthe draw...
Elinore Pruitt Stewart 「Letters on an Elk Hunt」
... The following winter found them with a scant food supply, and Government aid was neccessary to relieve suffering...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
... We slept till far into the afternoon, and then got up hungry enough to make cotter fare quite palatable to the king, the more particularly as it was scant in quantity...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
...A scant hundred yards away a hugecylinder drove crashingly past...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
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