#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

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

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

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

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#failure #fine #know #line #often

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#attachment #corners #ever #fiction #four

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#i #killing #living #myself #scarcely

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#beat #beginning #being #end #energy

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper