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The right bank of the river was only thinly settled, the left bank scarcely at all.
This was Edward's advice to me, when I received a particularly miserable salary rise, scarcely a rise at all.
The move would also have the result, so far scarcely noted, of undermining the teaching orders of priests and religious sisters.
Hitler may not have left a paper trail of evidence behind him but his culpability could scarcely be more self-evident.
Laying on their bellies, horses concealed by brush, James, Adam and Hoss waited, scarcely breathing.
But such trust is scarcely reconcilable with Kant's soberly realistic description of the politics of his own time.
Devotion and worship are supposed to be spiritual and other worldly and money should scarcely come into the picture at all.
The following day, Wills was so weak, he could scarcely crawl out of the mia-mia on the south bank of the Cooper.
Indeed, photosynthesis in the topmost leaves, at about 360 feet, scarcely occurs at all.
But scarcely 20 miles away, a new four-lane toll road is a giant step backward.
If they were poor to begin with, they would scarcely be better off as mendicants wholly dependent on the charity of poor householders.
Prices have scarcely risen over the past year, while rents are at their softest in recent memory.
Derby and Sunderland, both with healthy average home gates and attractive third round ties could manage scarcely more than 30,000 between them.
She is so incidental in her one narrative appearance that she is scarcely noticed.
Peering through my viewfinder, I could scarcely believe what I was seeing, because the pelagic thresher shark is extremely rare.
Like thistledown, she floats from one position to another, scarcely aware of him yet somehow connected, even dependent.
Neither will you be chilled to the marrow by the icy blasts of winter, for it scarcely ever freezes.
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.
The psychological impact of such terrorization upon local communities can scarcely be imagined.
Perhaps, though I scarcely dare to hope it, the hydrogen bomb will terrify mankind into sanity and tolerance.
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The economic importance of soil conservation is so great that it can scarcely be estimated.
I had scarcely made myself comfortable, when the khansamah informed me that dinner was on the table.
It is now a miasmatic region, with scarcely an inhabitant, and bears the name Sert Kalessi.
I need scarcely explain that holystone is a large soft stone, used with water, for scrubbing the dirt off the ship's decks.
There is scarcely one of my respectable clients but complains of your incivility.
From behind the first keened once more that ghastly and smothered escape of suffering, scarcely audible.
He to whom the destiny of the realm is entrusted could scarcely be a fribbler!
The breath was scarcely out of her body, when a flood of cowardly scurrilities was poured from the gutter press.
There's scarcely anything left outside a crowd of low offenders who are not worth the shoe leather expended in pursuing them.
In flying they have the adroitness to shoot their arrows so very true that they scarcely ever fail to hit man or horse.
Apoplexy and palsy, in a scarcely credible number of cases, are directly dependent on hypertrophic enlargement of the heart.
Up to recent years scarcely any merry-makings occurred in the villages of Gascony that were not accompanied with stilt races.
It is scarcely possible to summarize briefly all of the structural and stratigraphic methods used in locating the ore bodies.
His seat of government was Kagoshima, but there was scarcely any establishment worth calling a castle.
Suggestion to that effect can scarcely fail to appear to him faddish and unpractical.
There was a simplicity and freeness in the social life of the East which our Western civilization can scarcely understand.
It is scarcely forty miles from Granados, and lies at an elevation of 3,700 feet.
Daun gundi or tabung bru can scarcely be termed a flower, but is a very extraordinary climbing plant.
I need scarcely say that the tradition was groundless, but we worked it shamelessly.
He felt no pain, and scarcely knew whether it was his own or that of a shipmate.
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