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The end of Earnshaw was what might have been expected; it followed fast on his sister's: there was scarcely six months between them.

Here was the long, listless penis, there the curt, athletic knob or innocent rosebud of someone scarcely out of school.

It scarcely seems to matter that most of these schools are ersatz affairs with few conventional qualifications.

My heart was beating so fast, and there was such a singing in my ears, that I could scarcely stammer I had no objection .

Scarcely a year previously, his father, Percival, had been convicted of a savage and well-publicized attack upon three young Muggles.

I scarcely need say how much I enjoyed the holiday.

At times this deep strain of pathos was all that could be heard, and scarcely heard, sighing amid a desolate silence.

The image of the United States could scarcely be at a lower ebb. But in Asia, at least, anger at the U. S. may be turning to sorrow.

On the face of it, the trip could scarcely have been a more welcome respite for Mr Aso.

Anyway, I could see that he was in a state of great terror, for his tottering legs would scarcely support his stout, bulky form.

Hate him she did not quite; but he was dust and ashes to her, and even for her name's sake she scarcely wished to marry him.

To say that Jon Forsyte accompanied his mother to Spain unwillingly would scarcely have been adequate.

He bounded off as she spoke, scarcely stopping to listen, for it was so delightful for him to breathe the fresh air and be free again.

It was scarcely noon, and I conceived that I might as well pass the night under my own roof as in an inn.

He probably even chuckles to himself inwardly at the desperation of my plea, a desperation that I could scarcely keep out of my voice.

It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week.

He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation; his brow contracted, his air gloomy.

She lay, scarcely moving on her bed, looking through the small window at the blank side of the next brick house.

But I shall not return till this time next week; and I think your master himself would scarcely object to her visiting her cousin!

She did not bother to point out that "wife" was scarcely the operative label with the decree absolutely due in a fortnight.

He feared that even yet he might be seized and taken back, so he tried to conceal his movements, but it was scarcely possible.

He looked, but there was no keyhole. Finally he found one, but so small that it could scarcely be seen.

So strange were the circumstances of my story that I can scarcely believe myself to have been a party to them.

English was scarcely written down in this time - writing acts as a brake, and a language that isn't written down changes much faster.

The rapid growth and development in science has scarcely slowed at any time since the beginning of this period.

I can scarcely think of buying a pint of milk without thinking it would be so much better if he were dead first.

He looked upon me with so much humour and benignity that I could scarcely contain my satisfaction.

Elizabeth could not oppose such a wish; and from this time Mr. Bingley's name was scarcely ever mentioned between them.

Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.

The deep-sea diver had scarcely reached the bottom when a message came from the surface which left him in a dilemma.

He had scarcely sat down inside, when the trembling grew stronger, and he had a severe nervous seizure.

A few seconds delay to everyone on the train is an appreciable social loss, but scarcely matters to the selfish individual in question.

But I had scarcely shut my eyes when something that fell by me with a great noise awaked me.

A chit like that would scarcely presume to give herself airs with the Rector of her parish, however rich she might be.

Their retreats have come in a changing landscape for hedge funds, pools of money that were once scarcely regulated at all.

He thought himself in a sepulchre , into which a ray of sunlight in pity scarcely penetrated.

Its syntax appears to be that of a succession of three imperative clauses: one pointless, one mysterious, and one scarcely even coherent.

She had raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been twisted in her fall, and she was scarcely able to stand.

By the time she graduated from high school, at the age of twenty, she had scarcely ever heard anyone speak ill of Scientology.

But I thought I would have done much better than this, yet, here I AM and I have scarcely lived up to Your example.

The huge bird seemed to hang in the air, borne by the wind currents, soaring with scarcely a beat of its huge, powerful wings.

The answers are scarcely self-evident, and yet the questions have never been satisfactorily addressed, let alone answered.

Tom almost stammered, scarcely able to conceal his amazement and trying to act casual.

You can scarcely believe how little you know of your story in a first or second draft until you reach the fourth or fifth.

It is the only compassion that seems acceptable to us: a feeling that perhaps you hardly understand and that seems to you scarcely virile.

He would have said that she had scarcely thought of the child, so stilly had she gone about her work, day in and day out.

Hockin had scarcely any breath to tell us anything, as she came in through the door.

The two men were in the most harrowed state of affection. They scarcely heard the few remaining words with which the scene concluded.

And yet, despite its conquest of conversations the world over, there remain vast areas of language where OK is scarcely to be found.

He could scarcely pronounce my name but he taught me that it is not how much we give but how much love we put in the giving.

Man was not sufficiently ready to receive this truth then and is scarcely ready to receive it now.

His mother, too, asked him questions to which she seemed scarcely interested in knowing the answers.

With such a state of national unity the problem of disloyalty or isolationism scarcely existed.

on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.

Scarcely had I arrived home when be came out to see me.

As a relatively big country, and a member of the EU and NATO, Greece can scarcely plead persecution from its small northern neighbour.

Being a pivotal factor of RT, expectation of relevance(ER) has always been employed as a taken-for-granted concept and is scarcely studied.

Scarcely were they shut when something that fell by me with a great noise awoke me.

With the first of those scarcely five months away, and the general election only nine months after that, they have no time for leisure.

With scarcely another word I saw her to the convent, then took the bus back to Carfax .

In fact, he believes that collaboration comes so naturally to them, they scarcely give it a second thought.

He had scarcely tasted it, when he felt his sickness departing, and became strong and healthy as in the days of his youth.

My wife had scarcely patience to hear me to the end , but railed at the writer with unrestrained resentment .

Scarcely an adventure or character is given in his works, that may not be traced to his own party-colored story.

Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape discredit and misery.

He said he didn't enjoy it too much though because the big shots there scarcely noticed him.

It was a man who had scarcely reached his fortieth year, of tall stature, and of a thin but nervous and sinewy frame.

Inelasticity was scarcely the only reason for the discontent of the Wall Street bankers with the status quo.

A crowd of youths outside the door were kicking up such a noise that we could scarcely hear ourselves speak .

This was humiliating enough, and I could scarcely follow the play, but I was doomed to still further humiliation.

Sometimes he could scarcely manage to carry the pots of paint to the building side, his feet were so hot and sore.

Scarcely a whole study has been conduced to describe and realize a device able to exchange musical information with a computer.

adj. In his sleepy state, the sound of a car driving up to the house scarcely impinged on his consciousness.

And after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe.

The little toad was scarcely inside when it turned into a beautiful young lady, the turnip into a coach, and the six mice into horses.

Scarcely had the gas and the air entered the hearth when they began to form a very hot flame.

It all came so swiftly, so terribly, she scarcely realized what was happening before the storm was upon her.

Scarcely a week passes without an Israeli newspaper heralding new Jewish housing units being built in Arab districts.

The music of Irving Berlin is scarcely comparable to that of Beethoven .

and when obliged to separate for a couple of dances, were careful to stand together and scarcely spoke a word to any body else.

Mr. Darcy is impatient to see his sister, and to confess the truth, we are scarcely less eager to meet her again.

She had scarcely fallen asleep when a knock at the door awakened her .

One morning the heat was so great that the stone-cutter could scarcely breathe, and he determined he would stay at home till the evening.

Scarcely could the woman believe it when her husband said he would divorce her.

Scarcely had I arrived before he came out to meet me.

Scarcely had I arrived when he came out to meet me.

I bend close to her and scarcely hear as she whispers, "Water. "

During the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarcely uttered the quantity of a hundred words.

his eyes half open, the hole in his chest looking scarcely large enough to have let out all that had animated him.

The sea is but another sky, The sky a sea AS well, And which is earth and which is heaven, The eye can scarcely tell.

He had lived for about eight years of his life, quite alone, at this charming place, scarcely seeing a Christian face.

There are schools in London and Leicester where scarcely a white face is to be seen.

e. g. Scarcely had he arrived when he had to leave again.

Scarcely had he arrived when he had to leave again.

The authors stress that their sophisticated approach was scarcely better than the simple one at predicting the direction of exchange rates.

Study of vitrification was focused on various embryo cells researches, while there was scarcely research into sheep skin bioprocessing.

This is also shrewd: the poor do not care about his achievements as a diplomat and globaliser, which scarcely impinge on their lives.

Oliver could scarcely see anything in front of him.

Scarcely had he begun to work when john came to see him .

Scarcely had he arrived when they asked him to leave again.

Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship.

"Does it have to be today ? " Wellington asked, scarcely gazing up from his work .

Her voice was scarcely audible above the noise of the wind.

An order centred around the political, cultural and economic hegemony of the west can scarcely outlive the redistribution of global power.

But in our discussions he could scarcely conceal his anger and he wasn't able to articulate sound lessons learned from what transpired.

The attempt to calculate the cohesive energy of metals has scarcely been carried beyond the first column of the periodic table .

Scarcely had he arrived when he had to leave.

The so-called revolution scarcely seemed to have impinged upon the habits and standard of living of the wealthy.

He had hardly (scarcely, barely, only just) gone to bed when the doorbell rang.

to whose inquiry after the pleasantness of her last partner she had scarcely replied, before Mr.

We haven't had a serious environmental debate, and scarcely . . . a mention of conservation of biodiversity around the world, ever.

When it comes to the hazards posed to the climate by greenhouse gases they see science as an ally scarcely to be questioned.

That it would shower, with a sky so full of blackening thunder-clouds, would scarcely be thought worthy of comment.

And scarcely greet me with that sun shine eye.

He had that rare mischievous look on his face and he was scarcely able to conceal it.

SCARCELY a week goes by without another glowing report about racy Chinese trains.

they scarcely stayed a quarter of an hour in the cafe anglais , and together they went into the house in the boulevard haussmann.

If you hurt me, I choose to leave, then unfortunately I was the one person scarcely to!

"We go right out again, " he said, scarcely noticing that Carrie looked tired and weary.

A poor rural area, scarcely populated and with few job opportunities, may find itself home to many in the last days.

He was well, but so much engaged with Mr. Darcy, that they scarcely ever saw him. I found that Miss Darcy was expected to dinner.

The sun had scarcely risen before the fog began to disappear.

Scarcely ever to people get a good job these days without a good education. Tell this to her.

Global IPOs so far this year are scarcely a tenth of that amount, at just under $6bn, with $2. 3bn in Asia excluding Japan, Dealogic says.

The method requests scarcely any previous information about objects, take less calculating time, and is able to obtain compact fuzzy model.

My Dear Otani, To study philology, with the idea of becoming a philologist, scarcely seems to me a hopeful undertaking for you.

Yang Ai Su scarcely believes the ground looking at the piece of stone that the chest bulges, ground one falls flop.

His endowments are limited, and scarcely fit him for this post.

Scarcely had he arrived before his wife started complaining.

Steady to his purpose, he scarcely spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday.

but scarcely, within that time, could they at all discover the cause, or collect the particulars, of her sudden return.

All the while a government seeking to replace the euro with a devalued currency could scarcely rely on bond sales to finance its operations.

And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to EastEgg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.

his only jewellery was a chain , so fine that the slender gold thread was scarcely perceptible on his white waistcoat.

He had scarcely disappeared when I heard a rustling of leaves behind me and a man stepped out of the undergrowth in the back of the spring .

I had scarcely left his sick room throughout the whole time of his illness.

johnsy lay, scarcely making a ripple under the bedclothes, with her face toward thew indow. sue stopped whistling, th inking she was asleep.

Several times she came so late as scarcely to have an hour in which to patch up a meal and start for the theatre.

It was a great many years ago, and I can scarcely remember anything about it, but I think it was in some foreign country.

Since he was the main source of the firm's profits at the time, his masters could scarcely refuse him.

Scarcely had she fallen asleep when a knock at the door awakened her.

Eminent saints have scarcely known to what to compare themselves, their sense of unworthiness has been so clear and keen.

Scarcely had she fallen asleep when a knock at the door awaked her .

And scarcely had the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up red-cap.

I scarcely believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

Shanghai has scarcely been a goldmine for investors.

I, for one, had scarcely heard of this cat until a couple of weeks ago when a new kind of Hello Kitty product fell into my hands.

That points not to a revival but rather to a slower rate of GDP decline in the present quarter (it could scarcely get worse).

I cannot say why I felt so wildly wretched: it must have been temporary derangement, for there is scarcely cause.

Her monthly salary scarcely bought two pounds of rice, she said.

Sometimes she would make a kettle of lye hominy , and this would last, with scarcely anything else, for an entire week.

In fact, Jackson may scarcely have had any of the Beatles' back catalogue left.

Scarcely had I entered the building when it began to rain.

Accordingly she started out to revisit the Chicago Opera House, but possessed scarcely enough courage to approach.

There lived an old cobbler who worked hard at his trade from morning till night, and scarcely gave himself a moment to eat.

But, until recently, he has scarcely been a disciple of tighter regulation.

His complexion had turned pale. "Yes, " His voice was scarcely more than a whisper "Come with me. "

Scarcely had his hands touched her head when she sighed deeply.

Scarcely have you begun to tell them where you come from when a cup of hot and strong tea is handed over to you.

The music of Irving Berlin is scarcely comparableto that of Beethoven.

He had scarcely begun his song when the audience shouted at him.

Even Kuznets agreed that "the welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income. "

After scarcely ten minutes the grey curtains in the sky closed as suddenly as they had parted.

As I drive its streets, I can scarcely believe that this is where bin Laden met his fate.

Since your disappearance, nearly two weeks ago, she has scarcely closed her eyes.

We have had scarcely any CMEs this cycle, too, despite the approach of the solar maximum.

I met scarcely a soul on the road, but eventually managed to hire a rickshaw to take me to S-Gate.

he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle , a yielding , an impressible or even of a placid nature.

By the end of those 120 minutes most of the players scarcely had the energy to climb the steps to receive their medals.

The enemy scarcely had time to dig in before our assault was on.

I had hardly[scarcely] closed my eyes when someone knocked at the door.

It can easily accomplish the jointing for the surface treatment work pieces and scarcely affect its quondam out looking.

Scarcely had he opened the door when a gust of wind blew the candle out.

Scarcely had I closed my eyes when I began to imagine the most fantastic shapes.

Scarcely a week goes by without some new scandal in the papers.

Finally he found one, but so small that it could scarcely be seen. He tried the key, and fortunately it fitted.

Corruption, or rather the abuse of power, is a form of criminality that scarcely recognises any frontiers.

Far from coming to an end, the Greek debt crisis seems scarcely to have begun.

Although in that article, I used the term 'authority' scarcely but some of the readers expressed reservation about 'authority'.

The western part of the country, rich in minerals and farmland, is still scarcely governed.

Scarcely has a foreigner set foot in the United States before they ask him what he thinks of the country.

Scarcely had she agreed to marry him when she began to have serious doubts.

and I'd found you out, you could scarcely look more aghast.

I tasted them out of compliment to Nature, though they were scarcely palatable.

The old man was obviously out of humour and scarcely spoke at all.

This was scarcely the financial stimulus the economy required, but it won the hearts of conservative legislators.

The Soviet Union to which it gave birth fell some 70 years later, with scarcely any bloodshed.

Carrie, left alone by Drouet, listened to his retreating steps, scarcely realising what had happened.

But her arguments are scarcely original and her plodding prose makes her the least stylish of the critics.

Scarcely had he collected the papers on his desk when the door burst open.

Environmental impact assessment (ETA) is. a powerful tool to solve this problem, but is scarcely applied to reverse logistics.

Scarcely had he sat down when his mobile phone rang.

The European coalition in the skies above Libya can scarcely be characterised as one of incurable warmongers.

If your dad happened to buy a house in London in the 1960s, and hung on to it, then your own salary (or lack of it) scarcely matters.

Scarcely, however, had he touched Edmond's hand than he felt he had done all he could do, and rushed hastily out of the house.

Whereyou can pro- duce only a slim economic surplus, or scarcely any surplus at all, you will perish without ceaseless hard labour.

Scarcely was the family able to afford the tuition.

A country that had just lost the trust of investors in its fiscal rectitude could scarcely build a credible monetary system from scratch.

Parts of the city had scarcely changed since we were last there.

A scarcely perceptible smile passed over Kutuzov's podgy face, disfigured by the scar of a wound.

She could scarcely toss her head gracefully. Her hands were almost ineffectual.

Well, I can scarcely complain about pieces attacking politicians, since I have made a pretty good living out of them myself.

Yet even if the trend is confirmed, it scarcely vindicates the heavy-handed methods used to engineer it.

Later, when they asked the director to provide them with a written assessment of Donald's time there, he could scarcely be bothered.

Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.

Names, inscriptions, trophies, had all become confounded in my recollection, though I had scarcely taken my foot from off the threshold.

And the tenderness, light as water and as flour. And the word scarcely begun on the lips.

We had scarcely arrived when he asked us to leave.

He was so tempted to laugh that he could scarcely hold himself in.

The above extractant scarcely extracted rare earth but existence of rare earth in aqueous solution contributed to extracting Fe and Pb.

The taller of the two men had scarcely said a word when the other put up his fists and went for him.

He and his horse had scarcely found shelter amongst some rocks, when the flap of the dragon's wings could be plainly heard.

Some of their songs, solemn and rapturous, I scarcely understood at all.

Scarcely had I stepped out of the house but I heard a shot within.

The idea that Sky News will be turned into a Murdoch mouthpiece is scarcely more plausible.

About party program content, scarcely can be a back sheet, extend somewhat even, understand integratedly.

CENTURY ago, women were scarcely allowed to vote, let alone stand for election.

At the shoe factory she put in a long day , scarcely so wearisome as the preceding, but considerably less novel.

The concept of manufacturing for export scarcely exists, outside the arms industry.

so long , " said shaughnessy , scarcely deigning a notice" .

he was scarcely a credit to a woman who wanted to make herself a position in the world of art and letters.

scarcely was the work completed than it was abandoned.

But most of those who attend the Weight Watchers branch in the basement of Shanghai's posh Super Brand mall would scarcely qualify as plump.

About outline content, scarcely can be a back sheet, extend somewhat even, understand integratedly.

You can experience those characteristics be it in highly modernized metropolis or in scarcely populated countryside.

He had scarcely begun his speech when the audience began to heckle him.

A Terrier can scarcely be too short in back, provided he has sufficient length of neck and liberty of movement.

Scarcely, however, had he done so when the door creaked and every one looked that way.

He had scarcely handed me the letter when he asked me to read it.

The needlelike leaves of the giant redwood tree are diminutive, each scarcely a quarter of an inch long.

A CENTURY ago, women were scarcely allowed to vote, let alone stand for election.

Scarcely aware of what she was doing, the little match seller lit another match.

The significance of these papyri finds can scarcely be over-exaggerated.

After many weeks of work, he had scarcely made a dent in the number of combinations that must be tested.

It can scarcely bring itself to utter the word casino, preferring instead to describe its new attractions as "integrated resorts" .

There are many artists experimenting innovation of the traditional painting school, but scarcely see one who does Meticulous.

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.

the deep guttural sounds of the speaker were scarcely intelligible to the newly - waked , bewildered listener.

Scarcely three months into that assignment, however, I was recalled to Washington and named the president's national security adviser.

Scarcely had we gathered in the grain when it began to rain.

Westbrook, a GIRL of 16 whom he scarcely knew but whom he thought he should rescue from a tyrannical family.

We had scarcely left our school before(=when)it began to rain.

When I first beheld this apparition - for I could scarcely regard it as less - my wonder and my terror were extreme.

That situation would scarcely be improved by governments receiving the whole of the banks' profits, rather than a portion.

Mary could scarcely refuse such a just demand from you.

night in endeavouring to excuse a conduct which can scarcely be called less than insulting.

Scarcely had I got on the train when it started to move.

I could scarcely edge in a word (of my own).

The leverage that comes from being the world's biggest creditor scarcely qualifies to be described even as soft power.

Scarcely had he gone out when it began to rain heavily.