#scarcely

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ↗

— Jean Paul

#distance #gray #heads #like #look

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#brethren #god #i #i do #kill

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. ↗

— E. B. White

#curtain #fall #find #leaves #play

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. ↗

— Cole Younger

#around #before #chiefly #citizens #company

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#form #hope #i #i can #make

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. ↗

— John James Audubon

#aware #better #birds #english #habits

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

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

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. ↗

— John Keats

#come #i #i am #kick #scarcely