US /ˈskɛrsli/
・UK /ˈskeəsli/
“Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,”
"I am very glad to hear it." "Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth.
He's scarcely going to notice it,
a small amount, he'd scarcely going to notice it,
"I'm very glad to hear it." "Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth.
They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building, up a yard, where it had so little business to be that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses,
“But I have studied the place for myself,” continued Mr. Enfield. “It seems scarcely a house.
"It seems scarcely a house.
As you are required to exert yourself working, you may earn scarcely more money.
As you are required to exert yourself working, you may earn scarcely more money.
Once upon a time, there was a Little Prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely bigger than himself.
Once upon a time, there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely bigger than himself.
She could scarcely believe her eyes.
She could scarcely believe her eyes.
Once upon a time, there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely bigger than himself.
who lived on a planet that was scarcely bigger than himself.
Because you would know, being a good utilitarian, that taking some, a small amount, he's scarcely going to notice it,
that taking some, a small amount, he's scarcely going
AD, Boethius' fortune ran out. There was a knock at the door and a gang of Theodoric's guards accused him, quite falsely, of having plotted against the increasingly paranoid and vengeful king. With scarcely time to say goodbye to his family, Boethius was carted off to prison. Entirely innocent but also aware of the risk he was in, Boethius fell into despair. In a tiny cell, he contemplated his rapid fall from grace, his love for his family and the unfairness of his destiny. What would eventually lift his spirits and at the same time gift humanity one of its greatest works of prison literature of any time or place, was his decision to think his way, philosophically, out of his sorrows.
With scarcely time to say goodbye to his family, Boethius was carted off to prison.