1 The first was the scarcity of girls of marriageable age.
2 Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.
3 The rise always came, for with the increasing scarcity of necessities, prices leaped higher by the month.
4 But the fading hopes of the Confederacy weighed less heavily on Scarlett than his remark about the scarcity of food.
5 What I mean is with the scarcity of men in the neighborhood, Will could marry most any of the girls.
6 It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
7 No, there warn't no real scarcity of snakes about the house for a considerable spell.
8 Yes, even as times of want and scarcity may come upon nations, so may they come upon individuals.