#scarcely

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. ↗

— Edward Everett

#advance #dispositions #engaged #fell #force

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

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

— Henry Fielding

#happiness #others #person #scarcely #tasting

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#ahead #assuming #danger #his #increasing

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contrast #even #everything #little #need

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#breathe #charity #heart #kindliness #magnanimity

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#am #book #crusades #dull #i

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗