The right bank of the river was only thinly settled, the left bank scarcely at all. |
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This was Edward's advice to me, when I received a particularly miserable salary rise, scarcely a rise at all. |
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But it's like, he's scarcely out of the traps when the race is over, if you know what I mean. |
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The move would also have the result, so far scarcely noted, of undermining the teaching orders of priests and religious sisters. |
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Hitler may not have left a paper trail of evidence behind him but his culpability could scarcely be more self-evident. |
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Laying on their bellies, horses concealed by brush, James, Adam and Hoss waited, scarcely breathing. |
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But such trust is scarcely reconcilable with Kant's soberly realistic description of the politics of his own time. |
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The following day, Wills was so weak, he could scarcely crawl out of the mia-mia on the south bank of the Cooper. |
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Indeed, photosynthesis in the topmost leaves, at about 360 feet, scarcely occurs at all. |
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But scarcely 20 miles away, a new four-lane toll road is a giant step backward. |
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If they were poor to begin with, they would scarcely be better off as mendicants wholly dependent on the charity of poor householders. |
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Prices have scarcely risen over the past year, while rents are at their softest in recent memory. |
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Derby and Sunderland, both with healthy average home gates and attractive third round ties could manage scarcely more than 30,000 between them. |
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She is so incidental in her one narrative appearance that she is scarcely noticed. |
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Peering through my viewfinder, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing, because the pelagic thresher shark is extremely rare. |
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Like thistledown, she floats from one position to another, scarcely aware of him yet somehow connected, even dependent. |
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Neither will you be chilled to the marrow by the icy blasts of winter, for it scarcely ever freezes. |
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I'm not a screamer by nature but I screamed then, a high piercing shriek that I could scarcely believe had come from my throat. |
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The psychological impact of such terrorization upon local communities can scarcely be imagined. |
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Perhaps, though I scarcely dare to hope it, the hydrogen bomb will terrify mankind into sanity and tolerance. |
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She was scarcely half his age, but the marriage was, as far as one can tell, a happy one. |
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In such circumstances it is scarcely surprising that politics and politicians are now held in low esteem. |
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While it certainly addresses that trickiest of topics, it can scarcely be considered a novel, at least in any conventional sense of the term. |
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While polling suggests Australians oppose privatisations, they are scarcely new and are seen as facts of life. |
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On the other hand, it was certainly fostered by Charlemagne himself, without whom it would scarcely have happened. |
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The guard was scarcely out of sight when he heard a high shout from behind him. |
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Her feet made no sound against the smooth flagstones beneath them, and her breathing was scarcely audible. |
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An acknowledged expert in finance, his budgets were received with scarcely a dissentient voice. |
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Unfortunately you could scarcely hear them, but at least they looked to be having fun. |
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In that moment he could scarcely breathe, and yet the air was filling his lungs like an inflated balloon, stretching them painfully. |
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This, then, is not a rags to riches tale, but one of a treasure chest so scarcely concealed that the topsoil barely covered it. |
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Who could blame them, the wider world had scarcely heard of the British Virgin Islands. |
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They've been crying out to be heard for so long, they could scarcely believe someone was there to listen to their stories. |
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The action scarcely draws breath in 300-odd pages of rowdy doings and closet skulduggery. |
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She wraps one leg around the other and scarcely pauses for breath before elaborating. |
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The deep Russian bass is chanting as though through a long resonant tube, scarcely surfacing for breath. |
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The reaction to it has been overwhelmingly positive with scarcely a critical voice to be heard anywhere. |
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There were ashtray bins on many street-corners, and scarcely any butts on the ground. |
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A global democracy where most of the world is excluded by their own autocratic rulers is scarcely worth having. |
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Such behaviour sounds scarcely credible, but I'm sure memory isn't at fault here. |
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The irony of these remarks can scarcely have been lost on the assembled senators. |
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As it turns out, chimaeroids scarcely have a recognizable otic region, much less an otic jaw articulation. |
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It can scarcely be said that Byron and his staff were roughing it at Metaxata. |
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Later, a visiting neurosurgeon used the theater to perform lobotomies on patients who were scarcely aware of what was being done to them. |
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He's a considerably despicable anti-hero, and a more loathsome character is scarcely imaginable. |
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Nowadays, scarcely a week goes by without archaeology on television and in the major newspapers. |
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Given the vantage point of 35 years, LeWitt's art scarcely seems emotionally dry. |
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The overall pace is so even you scarcely notice when the odd rocker slips by, creating a slightly flatter feel than the songs deserve. |
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Such laws are scarcely ever opposed on grounds of principle, even by the most doctrinaire individualists. |
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I could scarcely reproach you for having undergone it without success, for those who emerge from it triumphant are very few. |
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However, the business elite is scarcely more representative of the population than it was a century ago. |
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And while she had achieved renown on both sides of the Atlantic, southerners scarcely knew her work. |
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Devotion and worship are supposed to be spiritual and other worldly and money should scarcely come into the picture at all. |
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What he learned and experienced during his adolescence and early manhood could scarcely be described by Goethe's terms Lehrjahre or Wanderjahre. |
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The country's second, third, and fourth cities lay in these recalcitrant districts, so the Federalist challenge could scarcely be brushed aside. |
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Light blue to chartreuse, adaxially glabrous or scarcely, with appressed hairs, abaxially with densely accumbent, minimally spiky, silky hairs. |
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But these scenes, despite their snapshot appearance and quotidian subject matter, are scarcely authentic. |
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Your story contained so many misconceptions and falsehoods, one scarcely knows where to begin. |
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But I am sorry that, in the name of health, we can be dictated to with scarcely a whisper of protest. |
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I can scarcely leave my house without her joining me in whatever activity I am doing. |
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The judge said he could scarcely believe that three so-called civilised young men could behave as they did. |
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What's more, I'm scarcely an authority on grammar, and I can hardly type. |
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But they appeared in a newsletter that blazoned his name across every issue, so it scarcely matters who wrote them. |
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In other words, the Amami rabbit has been isolated for so long from other rabbits and hares, including the volcano rabbit, that they are scarcely kin. |
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Their political bias even on so-called News programmes is scarcely hidden. |
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His reclusion was so absolute that as recently as 2001 he avoided attending a wedding on the long shot that he might bump into a journalist that he scarcely even knew. |
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As these exams don't count towards my final degree and I need to have scarcely even browsed any Classical texts to pass them I feel an utter apathy and lack of motivation. |
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Emanuel is a national figure, and dart, for now, is scarcely known beyond the borders of Cook County. |
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And as he sees it they were scarcely more qualified than he was to lead a group of green soldiers into battle. |
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The Internet gives video on demand the kind of universal reach that revival houses could scarcely dream of. |
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This is amazing progress considering that marriage equality in the first state was achieved scarcely more than a decade ago. |
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They could scarcely have realised it at the time, but the 12-year-old schoolboy and his father were treading the same path as hunters armed with lethal firearms. |
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The execution of these scenes in scagliola is a triumph, but it is scarcely less astonishing than Mr Kennedy's virtuoso inscription around the rim. |
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Then there are those who prefer a more flexible feast, offering haggis ravioli then Scotch trifle with mango, and there's scarcely a poem to be heard or a kilt to be seen. |
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The day was calm, so calm that there was scarcely a breath of air. |
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Kirstie sat very still, scarcely able to take in what she was hearing. |
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He lay petrified in the elf's shirt, scarcely daring to breath. |
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Given that the paper printed tens of thousands of words of willful balderdash from 2001 to 2003, the admission leaves something to be desired, but that's scarcely surprising. |
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But her sister's marriage had scarcely been a success and though Mary, queen of Scots, can hardly be accused of being against matrimony, the results were not encouraging. |
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The artists who created installations in the low barrack buildings could scarcely compete with the somber plaques explaining the significance of each area. |
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A life cycle including both polypoid and medusoid phases that can be separate in space and scarcely overlapping in time characterizes many hydrozoans and most scyphozoans. |
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But if he would scarcely answer, because it was set down in his notebook. |
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It is scarcely believable that a York bus has come under fire. |
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When the fools have gone home, the politicians take over center stage, although some sharp-tongued critics say there is scarcely any difference between the two. |
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If you return home and find that you have been robbed and the house trashed, the police will scarcely be persuaded to take an interest in this routine occurrence. |
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One could scarcely find any trout in the stream without the stocking program. |
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On his return he was utterly neglected, and could scarcely obtain an audience. |
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The swimbladders of deep sea fish are either absent or scarcely operational, and bathypelagic fish do not normally undertake vertical migrations. |
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The park is not just a place of lost civilizations, but vanished uncivilization, a Manhattan scarcely marked by human hands. |
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There were no cities of any size and very few towns, so there was scarcely an urban middle class at all. |
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The welfare of a nation can, therefore, scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined above. |
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The two English players scarcely spoke and, as Faldo was the senior partner, it was suggested that he should have done more to put him at ease. |
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Jackals were not hunted often in this manner, as they were slower than foxes and could scarcely outrun greyhounds after 200 yards. |
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For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother Sydney were sent to live with their father, whom the young boys scarcely knew. |
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Though Austen disliked the Prince Regent, she could scarcely refuse the request. |
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There is scarcely any inland water transportation system, and coastal shipping only meets minor local requirements. |
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Caveating is so necessary a motion in fencing, that without it there could be scarcely any offensive part, or pursuit. |
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It quickly became evident that, in practice, the original company faced scarcely any measurable competition. |
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The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous. |
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There is now scarcely any bohea or twankay imported to what there was formerly. |
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He could scarcely have advanced a theory indicating a more unfortunate inacquaintance with the subject. |
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There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody. |
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The sandwich is like no other, and scarcely resembles any typical hot dog. |
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Law is weak in Iraq and scarcely exists apart from violence. |
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Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture. |
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I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow. |
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The twenty-five-year-old Mitchum could scarcely believe his luck. |
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Last Monday we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated. |
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He had scarcely finished, when the labourer arrived who had been sent for my ransom. |
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In 1776 manufactories scarcely existed even in name in all this vast territory. |
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It would scarcely be too much to say that he was the most popular man in London society in his time. |
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That this purely empirical method of dealing with industrial evils made progress slow is scarcely an objection to it. |
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In 2012, there were scarcely new tantalum ore projects being put into production. |
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As a result, the Japanese found themselves having to dance to a new tune and it was one they were scarcely familiar with. |
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Sometimes the bevelling planes stretch so far towards the apex of the crystal that the accuminating planes are scarcely visible. |
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Some languages have borrowed so much that they have become scarcely recognizable. |
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Surely, too, it would be a waste of an agent, for after several hours of propinquity I could scarcely fail to recognise him in the future. |
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Some preservings of foods, indeed, can scarcely be done to advantage except on a large scale. |
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It can scarcely be conceived, that any sensible men should seriously advance such odd fancies, or that they mean any thing more by them than rhetorication and flourish. |
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In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human. |
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His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. |
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Indeed so meagre is the matter, so flimsy the arguments, and so unmedically are they expressed, that I scarcely believe the work was written by a medical man at all. |
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One could scarcely expect the man to know how to fly a helicopter. |
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Catherine possessed several good qualities, but had been brought up in a convent, secluded from the world, and was scarcely a wife Charles would have chosen for himself. |
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The leg half way between the knee and ankle was almost entirely severed, except a small portion on the outside, but the boot was scarcely marked at all. |
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England can look forward to a quarter-final next weekend against a similarly struggling France, a reward they scarcely deserve on the evidence of this disjointed display. |
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A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines. |
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Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, base fibrillose, scarcely rooting. |
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Tsarism was scarcely any more humane towards its native Russian subjects. |
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She not unfrequently stopped at the Parsonage, and had a few minutes' conversation with Charlotte, but was scarcely ever prevailed upon to get out. |
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Bruce would scarcely have found this sufficient cause to turn his coat. |
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When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea. |
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However, its popularity and prestige as a centre of pilgrimage waned with the Reformation, and by the time of the French Revolution there were scarcely any monks in residence. |
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Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper. |
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Before the emergence of the Swedish Empire, Sweden was a poor and scarcely populated country on the fringe of European civilisation, with no significant power or reputation. |
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But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip. |
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That he married the wrong sister is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family. |
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It is a counterhistory, a celebration of an explorer scarcely known in the United States, an Italian-born, French-educated aristocrat, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza. |
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But we shall take scarcely more than two years to reach it, while we should have needed almost as much time to arrive in the region of Proxima Centauris. |
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Several areas of research, including mechanics, optics, and magnetism, feature extensively in his manuscripts, but they scarcely feature in his published work. |
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As for his marriage with the Lady Margaret, fixed though it was for this day sennight, the thing was so palpably absurd that he scarcely gave it a thought. |
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While the children, scarcely awake, awe-stricken at her manner, their eyes growing larger and larger, remained in this position, she took the baby from her bed. |
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