How To Use Scarce In A Sentence

They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
The English were among the first to revive the "Louis XIV style" as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.
Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater.
Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'

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Scarcely had I managed, helped by the second mate, Aaron Northrup, to lower away half-a-dozen barrels and kegs, when all cried from the boat that they were casting off. Chapter 19
Expectations, helpfully, could scarcely be lower.
In Athens they scarcely appear above the horizon, so the early Greek texts undermined their importance.
Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
A big-jawed and relatively small-brained hominid known as Paranthropus consumed mainly nuts and other hard foods, causing it to die out as these resources became scarce in African habitats.
He scarce scrupled a penny after I gave him leave to try a sword dint upon it. The Fair Maid of Perth
Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
Instruments and scores were in scarce supply in a country about to plunge into civil war. Times, Sunday Times
If some extractive natural subsector gets scarce we will just substitute other sectors for it and growth of the whole economy will continue, not into any restraining biospheric envelope, but into sidereal space presumably full of resource-bearing asteriods and friendly highly-evolved aliens eager to teach us how to grow forever into their territory. From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy
And when I had been asleep scarce six hours, I waked again very sudden, as I had done before, and had belief that something did be anigh unto me; and I gript the Diskos, and did hearken; yet was there no sound that mine ears did wot of; neither aught that had power to be surely known of the spirit. The Night Land
Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion.
True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
Such survivals in the unbroken tradition of the cottage garden are now rare examples of such excellence and are very scarce indeed.
In the immediate future, bankers say, airlines in the region will have to be more creative in how they fund future airline purchases as financing becomes scarcer and costlier due to the worsening global economy. Dubai Gears Up For Air Show
Small as are the capitula of this flower, its seeds or achenia are armed with awns having reflexed hooks scarcely visible to the naked eye; it is these that are found so troublesome among the wool. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
In areas where wood was scarce, e.g. many of the Northern Isles, some buildings had stone or turf walls.
The arch-bishop himself, Æthelnoth, came from Canterbury to witness our troth; I could scarce raise my eyes to him, knowing as he must every blemish of my soul.
By the heyday of the binder's craft, the early to mid eighteenth century, two types of leather were recognized as the best: skiver, or lambskin, which was strong but so thin that it scarcely required any paring, and Moroccan goatskin, which was highly valued for its skiver-like characteristics combined with its delightful reddish color. Books: Modernity's Abuse of an Art
It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk.
Rhus Bucki-Amelam is common here, an Oxalis occurs in very shady places with fleshy leaves, it is so large that it is scarcely referrible to O. corniculata. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Now, FBI agents' time is a much scarcer commodity because so many agents focus on counterterrorism.
Her aunt scarcely looked her age.
When he opened his eyes the dirigible was making another turn, less precipitous than before and — he hadn’t realized, but now saw through ragged gaps in the fog — at a lower altitude, some two hundred feet above what looked like a low fennish grassland, with scarcely a single tree in sight. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
It seems scarcely credible that he has been stuck on 14 majors for more than four years. Times, Sunday Times
Fuel and tankers became so scarce in the spring of 1942 that oil was scavenged from the unsalvageable battleships still resting on the bottom of Battleship Row.
She had used make-up skilfully to mask her bruise, and with the subdued stage light it was scarcely visible.
It would also provide a sound basis for targeting scarce resources and developing strategies for remediation and amelioration.
Perhaps this is inevitable in the development of a new concept involving shades of professional opinion and set against the background of scarce resources.
The city was perched on its barren, hot rock, with scarcely a drop of water, and its inhabitants must often have been tempted to wish that there had been running down the sun-bleached bed of the Kedron a flashing stream, such as laved the rock-cut temples and tombs of Thebes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
They could scarcely be flung from the Tarpeian Rock—that would invite a riot. CONSPIRATA
A serious expression pervaded the face of Dyke Darrel, and he scarcely spoke during the drive back to town. Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
Now that debt is scarce and share prices have slumped, it is a death sentence. Times, Sunday Times
There occurs in great numbers a species of small Pecten, -- some of the specimens scarce larger than a herring scale; a minute Ostrea, a sulcated Terebratula, an Isocardia, a Pullastra, and groups of broken serpulæ in vast abundance. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Although technically open to the public, entry was limited to holders of scarce tickets of admission.
Despite a prolific output, recordings and performances of his work were scarce. Times, Sunday Times
For one thing, it's not knit in bainin, the oiled Irish yarn that is scarcer than hen's teeth to find. The Knitting Curmudgeon
Less well known is rose hip soup, a sweet, cold soup high in vitamin C, traditionally served during the long winter months when fruits are scarce.
I have scarcely ever heard anything equal to her, and her pronunciation of every language — begad, of every language — seems to me to be perfect; and the best houses in London must open before a young lady who has such talents, and, allow an old fellow to say, Miss The History of Pendennis
At their best the conditions in these prisons are scarcely tolerable.
Hit dramas, reality shows and entertainment programmes are scarce commodities in the TV industry. Times, Sunday Times
We were scarcely expecting rain & made no preparation. Christianity Today
Nevertheless, the grant was more than welcome, he added; his plan had been to spend the rest of the term applying for increasingly scarce grant money to support his work. Economic Principals
It held meetings in our big vault, which they called the donjon keep, and, naturally, when one of them was going on, boys were scarcer around the office than hen's teeth. Old Gorgon Graham
I. ii.188 (19,2) [There is a prone and speechless dialect] I can scarcely tell what signification to give to the word _prone_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them. The Evolution of an English Town
The Green Party has little financial backing and is using its scarce resources to mount ballot-petition drives in selected states.
Many farmers were conscripted into service, while others went into hiding, so food became scarce. Christianity Today
Food was often scarce in the winter.
With a poem named "Europe," we should scarcely expect for a frontispiece the Ancient of Days, in unapproached grandeur, setting his "compass upon the face of the Earth," -- a vision revealed to the designer at the top of his own staircase. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
Perhaps, though I scarcely dare to hope it, the hydrogen bomb will terrify mankind into sanity and tolerance.
For its part, the Council will put in place proper recycling facilities with tractability and accountability to ensure best environmental practice and reuse of scarce resources.
I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident.
Avoid scarcer species, such as bluefin, which are popular in sushi and sashimi restaurants.
Lastly, if your dairy has grown up in the city, developable land within a country mile of it is scarce and trading at a premium.
This morning it was calm and clear save for a light misty veil of ice crystals through which the moon shone with scarce clouded brilliancy, surrounded with bright cruciform halo and white paraselene. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
Those compounds should be abundant on a planet, but pure oxygen, whether monatomic or molecular, should be vanishingly scarce - as it is, in fact, on Mars and Venus.
But the figure of the woman was still more awkward: an unwieldy bulk, two extended arms which seemed to bear it up with difficulty, and looked like two carved handles from the neck to the widest part of a large kilderkin, and beneath this enormous body, two legs, naked up to the knees, which could scarcely totter along. Chapter XI
Clinton the elder here withdrew, and had scarcely disappeared when two voices were heard in the hall, in a kind of clamorous remonstrance with each other, which voices were those of Father Magowan and our friend The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
William Gambon, especially, could scarcely have done so since he held corrodies at Salop, (Shrewsbury), Chaucer's Official Life
By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
I saw the glance that fell, scarcely touching, on my plain plaid frock. Daisy
And, save for hard, stale cookies and bars in health food stores, carob was scarce outside my own kitchen.
It's scarcely believable that he could be so reckless. The Sun
His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion. The Tragic Muse
A trap-door it was, of huge dimensions, almost exactly covered by the self-colored square; but at each side a tongue of linoleum had been left loose for lifting it; and the lamp had scarcely been replaced upon the counter when the bulk of the floor leaned upright in one piece against the opposite wall. Stingaree
Skilled workers were becoming increasingly scarce.
The dog lay so still it scarcely seemed animate.
This tetterous complaint is peculiar to warm countries; we know scarcely anything of it in our northern climate. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
As environmentalists keep warning us, even the air is a scarce commodity.
Wait until only the wealthy will be the only ones able to afford food which will become expensive due to it being scarce due to the increase of burnt out crops and rise in pestilence. Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee.
Even impoverished Southerners snubbed peanuts until food was scarce.
But more than this clouded his mind, he had been brought to say good-bye to Jessamine Buckner, who had scarcely seen him, and to give her a wolverene-skin, a hunting trophy. Lin McLean
His response to the coolness elicited by his ideas in these circles was scarcely calculated to dispel it.
On one level, this scarcely believable feat suggests continuity and durability.
Even though Zach and I were old news, when topics for gossip were scarce, blabbermouths always bring the last ‘Old News' report back to life.
There was scarce a word interchanged, and no common sentiment but that of cold united us, until at length, having touched at Greenock, a pointing arm and a rush to the starboard now announced that our ocean steamer was in sight. Essays of Travel
As he read the poem out loud, he mangled the rhythm so badly that it scarcely made any sense.
Then competition for scarce resources might favourably select more complex organisms.
Among these colts was a three-year-old that had never been shod and was scarcely bridle-wise. The valley campaigns : being the reminiscences of a non-combatant while between the lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the war of the states,
People miss surprises in soaps because trailers and spoiler photos make them scarce now. The Sun
To intense, hardworking young Taylor, the practice could scarcely have seemed like anything but the most shameless sloth.
The economic orthodoxy of the 1970s could scarcely have been further removed from that of the 2000s. Times, Sunday Times
Jobs and relief agencies were scarce in northern cities, where anti-Negro sentiment kept growing.
There is, for example, scarcely a Welsh name which is correctly spelt.
Millions of people have been doing scarcely a stroke of work. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond that and the fact that "Battlestar Galactica" creator Ronald Moore had a role in crafting the story, the details have been scarce. Casting Breakdowns For ‘The Thing’ Prequel Are Very Uninspiring » MTV Movies Blog
Competitors slept in military huts and had to survive on a low-calorie diet because food was still scarce. The Sun
I observed a green belt of trees scarcely 300 yards to the northward; and on riding towards it, I found myself on the banks of a large fresh water river from 500 to 800 yards broad, with not very high banks, densely covered with salt water Hibiscus (Paritium), with a small rubiaceous tree Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
Because of this, a strong administrative apparatus was needed to plan the use of scarce resources, organize production and regulate distribution.
Ethel could scarcely feel that it would not be a mockery to declare, on her behalf, that she renounced the world. The Daisy Chain
His self-described life of writing, reading and lecturing resembles that of a donnish Edwardian vicar; a less modern, less stressful existence can scarcely be imagined.
A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
Pierre at first failed to distinguish anything, but, when he was installed at the little table -- a garden-table which had been brought indoors for the occasion, and on which there was scarcely room for two covers -- he felt quite upset, almost sick, in fact, at the sight presented by the _table d'hote_, which his glance now enfiladed from end to end. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
Then stood Regin staring on the earth a long while, and presently thereafter spake from heavy-mood: “Mine own brother hast thou slain, and scarce may I be called sackless of the deed.” The Story of the Volsungs
For the next eighteen days life was supported by a kind of bouilli made from the bones and the skin of the game killed the previous year, and at last, on the 29th October, Dr. Richardson arrived with John Hepburn, only looking thin and worn, and scarcely able to speak above a whisper. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
This is scarcely surprising; human beings have evolved as a social species.
With jobs so scarce, many young people spend long hours with little to do but drink and stew.
Like the lycopod trees, these woody calamites scarcely survived the ‘Age of Coal’, and by the mid-Permian they were extinct.
Then looking down the rest of this year's list, I realise that - Kanye West aside - there's scarcely a scrap of rap to be found.
This is scarcely a sigh on the scale of long-term hominin evolution, some six million years of transformation that is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch H.ll of H.man Origins, which opened this week at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural H.story. NYT > Home Page
The surprise of the Lord Keeper was scarcely less unpleasing at the duplication of the expected arrival; his mind misgave him strangely. The Bride of Lammermoor
Above these there is a vocal line so free and continuous that the strictures imposed by the repetition of the bass are scarcely felt.
For age, which naturally and unavoidably is but one remove from death, and consequently should have nothing about it but what looks like a decent preparation for it, scarce ever appears of late days but in the high mode, the flaunting garb, and utmost gaudery of youth; with clothes as ridiculously, and as much in the fashion, as the person that wears them is usually grown out of it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man's parts as will let him fend a blow in the face. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
But supermodels are scarce and their talents are remarkable.
The added revenue can be invested in new schools or health-care clinics in areas where education and medicine are scarce; it can subsidize short-term make-work projects to appease the angry unemployed or patronage networks that control dissent at the local level; it can finance the construction of better roads and bridges to open internal trade; it can bankroll the imposition of martial law. The J Curve
Vegetable grower in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the Winter, spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing.
If her mother had been alive, she'd likely have earned a scolding for such hoydenish behavior, but her mother had died too long ago for her to remember clearly, her father scarcely seemed to notice what she did, and she had only herself to please. Phoenix And Ashes
Since he does the whole judge/jury/executioner thing, everybody's out to get him, ergo, he has to make himself as scarce as possible.
Without doubt, in the foundations of the world was graved this end for him -- for him, who was so fine and sensitive, whose nerves scarcely sheltered under his skin, who was a dreamer, and a poet, and an artist. Lost Face
The officer - now but a poor, sorry soul mourning for Christmas - could scarcely contain his unhappiness.
Seeing such fine weather, the boys could scarcely keep in.
'crowner's quest-law,' he is only parodying, and that closely, a scarcely less ludicrous judgment which had actually been pronounced, not long before, in the Court of Queen's Bench. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852
But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia. The Conquest of Bread
'I never was so berhymed since I was an Irish rat, which I can scarcely remember.' The Pillars of the House, V1
Researchers think the body works best if starved for short periods because food was scarce for our caveman ancestors. The Sun
Conditions for the world's farmers are only expected to worsen in years ahead as populations burgeon, the effects of climate change decrease their lands 'arability, and fresh water becomes scarcer. Dan Glickman: The G-8 Announcement on Agricultural Development: Can it Save the World From Hunger?
At least three distinct groups want a share of the scarce resource.
In the beleaguered town, where almost 40,000 evacuees take refuge, food is scarce, just one rice ball a day, but not the social discipline and courtesies of regular Japanese life. Public order still rules amid devastation in Japan
Attractive though the technique appears, we must demand more from such an expensive and still scarce resource.
What you said was "If we're having trouble telling if an amoeba is intelligent it will scarcely affect our case. Bunny and a Book
There is a lovely variety of this species called _V.g. variegata_; in shape and habit it resembles the type though scarcely as vigorous, but not at all "miffy. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
After the summer solstice, although the days are shortening in consequence of the sun's recession, their diminution is for some time scarcely perceptible, and as the days are still much longer than the nights, more heat is imparted to the earth than is lost by night-radiation. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford
What is relevant here is that it is creating a rush on scarce global resources, particularly oil and gas, between China and the US.
Besides, they say dough will be leavened sooner in the full, for then, though the leaven is scarce proportioned to the meal, yet it rarefies and leavens the whole lump. Essays and Miscellanies
Phoebe Martin was a thirty-three-year-old widow, and Clarine Eldridge, just fourteen, was scarcely older than the children she had been hired to watch. Excerpt: Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss
Indeed, when looking at the catalogue of Baby Cow's bleakly funny programmes – Marion and Geoff, Human Remains, Nighty Night, Sensitive Skin, Sarah and Lizzie – one could scarcely find a better description of them than Chekhov's own words for his subject matter: "the sad comicality of everyday life". Chekhov Shorts: 'I'm Ivan Nyukhin, aha!'
That music is a product of civilisation is manifest; for though savages have their dance-chants, these are of a kind scarcely to be dignified by the title musical: at most, they supply but the vaguest rudiment of music, properly so called. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little. XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
In the public sector money and resources are scarce. Times, Sunday Times
Jobs are scarce, housing is substandard but costly, and difficulties speaking English keep them in this cycle.
I could scarcely keep from laughing in his face, the whole thing was so ludicrous; but I managed to look my haughtiest, and sternest, and fiercest, while I superintended the deck-cleansing. CHAPTER XLV
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here, O idle water-wanderer, let your boat glide with the scarcely moving current, and gaze upon the leafy groves of the sub-aqueous wilderness lit up by the rays of the sun, and watch the fish moving singly or in shoals at various depths -- the bearded barbel, the spotted trout, the shimmering bream, and the bronzen tench. Two Summers in Guyenne
In all birds there is an ischium, but so placed and of such length that it would scarcely be taken for an ischium, but rather for a second thigh-bone; for it extends as far as to the middle of the belly. On the Parts of Animals
So technical personnel scarcely can forget his corvine identity, because ear root is soft, did not forgo oneself profit, be used thereby.
Scarcely were these words concluded, but she felt the custome of women to come upon her, with the paines and throwes incident to childing: wherefore, with helpe of the aged Lady, Mother to Signior The Decameron
Meanwhile, fee waivers – a ploy to plug the funding gap caused by the policy of £9,000 fees – will raid bursary pots, pushing more students into scarce part-time work, or poverty. Student tuition fees protests – Wednesday 9 November 2011
They are scarcely more dissimilar than the primrose, the cowslip, and the oxlip, which have all been raised from the seed of the same plant, and are now regarded by botanists as varieties instead of species. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
He had scarcely pronounced these words before he was empaled; nevertheless, he had been all along in the right. A Philosophical Dictionary
If she has been dismasted, which is possible, you would scarcely discern her at the distance she must be off by this time. The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific
So information about her youth is inevitably scarce, apart from her own memoirs, which are bound to be somewhat distorted through the prism of time.
Pruritus vulvae, in its severest forms, is often developed when the discharge is scarcely noticeable. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
I find it overpoweringly beautiful — really. I love it, but it makes my head explode to the extent that I can scarcely read it.
And in it he asks them to 'Consider' -- his countrymen have scarcely as yet considered it sufficiently -- 'Consider, brethren, it is no speculative theologue which desireth to give you courage, but even your brother in affliction, which partly hath experience what Satan's wrath may do against the chosen of John Knox
I will compound a medicine, out of their two heads, stronger than garlic, deadlier than stibium: the cantharides, which are scarce seen to stick upon the flesh, when they work to the heart, shall not do it with more silence or invisible cunning. The White Devil
Scarcely had the feodary read, re-read, and then destroyed this secret and singular missive, when the "Ho! hollo!" of Her Grace the Princess 'outriders rang on the crisp December air, and there galloped up to the broad doorway of the manor-house, a gayly costumed train of lords and ladies, with huntsmen and falconers and yeomen following on behind. Historic Girls
Bags of ice became a relatively scarce commodity as the population tried to remain cool in the sweltering heat of summer. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Relatively few have survived from antiquity, since silver became scarce and a much sought after commodity in the late Empire.
At first I scarcely noticed them, supposing them to be vast beds of silvery bottom sand glittering under the electric pencil of the hydroscope. Police!!!
Scarce water resources are shared between states who cannot trust each other.
You may have noticed my (LowerManhattanite's) scarceness over the last week-and-a-half or so. Fragility
The Sidmouth to Beer Coast SSSI supports the most westerly example of species-rich grassland in England and a diverse invertebrate fauna including the nationally scarce rufous grasshopper Gomphocerippus rufu. Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom
dissociable," with tongues which he cannot utter, or cannot understand; that, like the wife of Hector, it proclaims in accents scarcely to be resisted, that there is a tower assigned to everyman, where it is his first duty to plant himself for the sake of his own, and in the defence of which he will find perhaps enough to do, without extending his care to the whole circuit of the city walls. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829
As gatekeepers, general practitioners are accustomed to husbanding the scarce resources of the NHS, and this might look like a logical extension of their role.
You and I would, you know, become men and women, while we were yet scarcely more than children — We have run, while yet in our nonage, through the passions and adventures of youth, and therefore we are now old before our day, and the winter of our life has come on ere its summer was well begun. — Saint Ronan's Well
We have scarce seen him since the tift he had with us the other day. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
Annual reports and accounts will scarcely be looked at. Times, Sunday Times
She could copy prints, so that at a little distance you would scarcely know that the copy in stumped chalk was not a bad mezzotinto engraving. The Newcomes
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
Scarcely able to conceal his disappointment, he issued an emotional apology afterwards.
If the insects of the genus Simulium abound in the Cassiquiare, which has white waters, the culices or zancudos are so much the more rare; you scarcely find any there; while on the rivers of black waters, in the Atabapo and the Rio, there are generally some zancudos and no mosquitos. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Had I known you as the Wife of any but the 'quondam' Greek Professor, I should very likely have sent it to you: since it was meant for those who might wish for some insight into a Play {109} which I must think they can scarcely have been tempted into before by any previous Translation. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II
Once downstairs, it was soon clear that the heart of the quartier had scarcely missed a beat. Times, Sunday Times
Sultans, rajahs, maharajahs, datus, etc., under ordinary circumstances have been and still are in most of the unprotected States unable to control the chiefs under them, who have independently levied taxes and blackmail till the harassed cultivators came scarcely to care to possess property which might at any time be seized. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
It is scarcely believable that the drama of that week occurred eight years ago. Times, Sunday Times
The Duke's public pronouncements on marriage have been scarce. Times, Sunday Times
His plan was such a success that even his original critics could scarcely forbear from congratulating him.
Under the radiance from the lighted lanai, ere entering the irritating movement of life again to which he belonged, he paused to stare, scarcely seeing, at a flaunt of display of scarlet double-hibiscus blooms. THE KANAKA SURF
I may remark, that the aestivation of Kydia is scarcely valvate. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Mature forests with arboreal lichens are scarce except in national parks and nature.
Natural predators such as ladybirds and lacewings love to eat aphids, but they can be scarce.
Also looking wistfully at the three library books I must return tomorrow; I've had them for six weeks, but have scarce made a dent in them, such is my perdition.
It could scarce be called a housewarming; for there was, of course, no fire, and with the two open doors and the open window gaping on the night, like breaches in a fortress, it began to grow rapidly chill. The Silverado Squatters
The move would also have the result, so far scarcely noted, of undermining the teaching orders of priests and religious sisters.
It grows even more vigorously than the jackbean under less harsh conditions (in Yucatan, where droughtiness is always a problem the jackbean does better in years of low rainfall, whereas the velvetbean does better when rain fall is higher than normal, but still scarce). 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
But scarcely had those few individuals effected their retreat in this manner, when a tremendous crash was heard, cries and shrieks of horror and dismay burst from those who had not as yet passed through the opening, and then the roof of the chamber of penitence and all the adjacent cells gave way with a din as of a thousand cannon, burying beneath their weight the sextoness, the five penitents, the inmates of Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
To care for a term newborn barely clinging to life while we support and assist the family to begin grieving and to say goodbye scarcely before they got the chance to say hello just breaks my heart. I’m the lucky one « Adventures in Juggling
The trite maxim, * A place for everything, and everything in its place*, so commends itself to the sense of fitness, as hardly to need exposition or enforcement; yet while no maxim is more generally admitted, scarce any is so frequently violated in practice. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
Harry and I hae been to gather what was on the outby land, and there's scarce a cloot left. The Black Dwarf
Democrats in Boston tacitly acknowledged the potential power of this message as the word ‘liberal’ was scarcely heard all week.
The breathless idyl left them, fled on to other lovers; they looked around one day and it was gone, how they scarcely knew. The Beautiful and Damned
It was reasonable to expect that a strict search would be made for the archtraitor, as he was often called; and such a search a man of so singular an aspect and dialect could scarcely have eluded. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
It was a woman scarcely conscious and whimpering softly as they fastened the rope around her. Bomber
In 1939, leather was scarce so Magli introduced cork, fabric, velvet, fiber and wood to his shoes.
Tea and sugar were scarce and were rationed during the war.
YooperJack, I know what you mean about the bucks being scarce in Da UP. A Few More Words About Politics and Targets
Following, with unequal steps, such a guide, accompanied, likewise, by an excellent Canon of the Church [B] with all the "armamentaria coeli" at command against the powers of darkness, and a lay auxiliary [C], whose friendly converse would make the roughest journey appear smooth, I need scarcely say, I passed through Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
Scarcely a second did they eye one another when crack! slap! they were at it, wing and gaffle. The Reckoning
Bear in mind that petrol stations are scarce in the more remote areas.
I've traveled through the blind infinities of existence since I could scarcely speak.
Their is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.
After years of tweezing my eyebrows they are now very scarce and look untidy, how can I achieve neat looking brows?

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