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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.


David Brainerd


#board #english #his #i #poor

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.


Joshua Chamberlain


#been #came #day #encountered #enemy

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.


Brian Ferneyhough


#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.


Robert Sexton


#love #marriage #scarce #value #work

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.


Charles Dickens


#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.


Charles Dickens


#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.


William Blake


#eyes #green #imagination #itself #joy

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.


Henry Fielding


#happiness #others #person #scarcely #tasting

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.


Godfried Danneels


#cities #despite #earth #evident #flooded

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?


John James Audubon


#any #degree #delusive #further #hope