Crossword-Solution: SCANTIER 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

But as when shipmen, under a desolate isle Mid the wide sea by stress of weather bound, Chafe, while afar from men the adverse blasts Prison them many a day; they pace the deck With sinking hearts, while scantier grows their store Of food; they weary till a fair wind sings; So joyed the Achaean host, which theretofore Were heavy of heart, when Neoptolemus came, Joyed in the hope of breathing-space from toil.

The trees were smaller and scantier here, owing to the rocky nature of the ground, which sloped rather rapidly down; but it was moist and overgrown with mosses, ferns, creepers, and low shrubs, all of the liveliest green.

Scanty as the supply of the water is throughout this district, it becomes still scantier further inland.

These apartments, the rooms they wanted, were generally very splendid; but fortunately they never _could_ get them—fortunately, I mean, for Pemberton, who reflected always that if they had got them there would have been a still scantier educational fund.

Scantier and scantier grew the grass; the hollows were washes of sand; steely gray dunes, like long, flat, ocean swells, ribbed the prairie.