| 1. | They are, in truth, scanty enough but--" I interrupted-. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | The early Greek poets offer but scanty allusions to Erebus. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 3. | His heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair made him look sleepy. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 4. | About the middle of the second day of their flight their scanty store of provisions began to run out. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | Levin could see the scanty locks wet with sweat on the temples and tense, transparent-looking forehead. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 7. | This man lifted his straw hat, showed his scanty curly hair and high forehead, painfully reddened by the pressure of the hat. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | A scanty few are they, who when they hear Such tidings, hasten. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 9. | She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |