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Scarcely   /skˈɛrsli/   Listen
adverb
Scarcely, Scarce  adv.  
1.
With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just. "With a scarce well-lighted flame." "The eldest scarcely five year was of age." "Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides." "He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived who had been sent for my ransom."
2.
Frugally; penuriously. (Obs.)





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"Scarcely" Quotes from Famous Books



... were being wound up. Considering the fact that the stockholders had been assessed dollar for dollar of their holdings, and that, even with this assessment added to the assets, the depositors would get back only a fraction of their money, Vaniman could scarcely marvel at the hard looks and the muttered words he met up ...
— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day
... bringing forward the name of Isaac T. Hopper, and recognizing the part he took in its affairs, from the earliest moment of its existence until the close of his life, would be an unpardonable omission. A few words must be said where a volume would scarcely suffice. ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... of consulting Dorothy's opinion. Indeed, they scarcely missed her presence when, a few moments later, she slipped from the room to have a ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... March 3d scarcely a bank in the country was open to do business. Proclamations temporarily closing them in whole or in part had been issued by the governors in almost all ...
— The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
... Kayan the name of the Long-Glats was Hu-van-ke-raw. Attached to Long Tujo is a small kampong occupied by the Oma-Tapi, who speak a different language, and almost opposite, scarcely a kilometre down the river, is another inhabited by the Oma-Lokvi, who speak a dialect other than Long-Glat. Not far west of here is a kampong, Nahamerang, where the Bato-Pola live, said to be Kayan. The Long-Glats ...
— Through Central Borneo: - An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters - Between the Years 1913 and 1917 • Carl Lumholtz


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