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Dearth — A scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a famine in the land (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sonnet 14 — sonnet|14 Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy, But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell, Pointing to each his thunder, rain… … Wikipedia
Kursalón, Sklené Teplice — Kursalón is cultural and historical constructional monument in Sklené Teplice, Slovakia. History Construction In the June 1836 Jozef Lentz, new tenant farmer of spa in Sklené Teplice, came with project to build the „conversational room“ where the … Wikipedia
dearth — rapidly extended its meaning from its 13c restriction to food, to refer to a scarcity of anything: • Unable to find what she needed in ‘romantic’ novels, Letty had turned to biographies, of which there was no dearth Barbara Pym, 1977. Dearths… … Modern English usage

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