The Boy observed with scant patience that his pardner treated Maudie with a consideration he could hardly have bettered had she been the first lady in the land.

Fierce eyed and scant of breath, Beltane redoubled his blows, striving to beat his mocker to the earth, whereat he but laughed again, saying: "Look to thy long legs, dullard!"

Not the scantest and toughest of rock-growths thrust a leaf through its brassy surface, not a well-head or a darker depression of the rock gave sign of a trickle of water.

Suddenly the cotton hangings fluttered again, and a tiny child in the scantest of smocks rushed out and scampered across the court.

Thus has arisen the so-called drama, in which the awful power of Fate was dissolved by the will; but precisely because this comes to the aid of our weakness do we find ourselves moved if, after painful expectation, we finally receive but scant comfort.

" They gave the wretched man but scant consideration, and in less than three minutes had visited every pocket, examined every secret receptacle, and practically turned him inside out.

Beyond this point the records are extremely scant; but it may be gathered that the plantation was wrecked and most of its inhabitants, including Thorpe, slain in the great Indian massacre of 1622.

The report of proceedings in the House was now full, now scant.

May the Babylonish curse Strait confound my stammering verse, If I can a passage see In this word-perplexity, Or a fit expression find, Or a language to my mind, (Still the phrase is wide or scant) To take leave of thee, GREAT PLANT!

Past midnight this poor Maid hath spun, And yet the work is not half done, Which must supply from earning scant A feeble bed-rid parent's want.

True love shows costliest, where the means are scant; And, in her reckoning, they abound, who want.

SIR WALTER A scant petition, Margaret, but take it, Seal'd with an old man's tears.

There is scant news of our small outside worldonly a report of comfort and a rumour that Bowers' pony has eaten one of its putties!!

It is very well to know how best to use the scant resources that nature provides in these regions.

There was lively cheering when they reappeared in this condition, such is the sympathy which is here displayed for affliction; but with Wilson much of the amusement arises from his peculiarly scant headgear and the confessed jealousy of those of us who cannot face the weather with so little face protection.

Day by day news grows scant in this midwinter season; all events seem to compress into a small record, yet a little reflection shows that this is not the case.

The scant twilight at midday was so short that they must start in the dark and be prepared for the risk of missing their way in returning without light.

Even now he is looking forward to getting away by himself to Hut Point, tired already of our scant measure of civilisation.

Steve was a scant five feet, and he was telling a private who was a scant six feet that there would be dirty work at the crossroadswhen the fur-faces started.

Steve was a scant five feet, and he was telling a private who was a scant six feet that there would be dirty work at the crossroadswhen the fur-faces started.

Then from the train issued Winona, bedecked in alien gauds and fur-belows, her keen little face radiant under a Paris trifle of brown velvet, her small feet activeunder a skirt whose scant length would once have appalled herin brown suede pumps and stockings notoriously of silken texture.

They said it and they wrought it, though often breathing with scant life, as in a coffin, or as lying wounded amid a heap of slain.

The relative importance of the British Expedition was vastly exaggerated, not because its particular importance was over-estimated, but because the French operations received very scant notice.

Its population was scant and poor.

Christopher Rich, the manager of the theatre, was, like many of his kind, more given to considering the weight of his purse than the scant supply of sentiment with which nature might originally have endowed him, and so he tried to do two characteristic things.