My plans for study were quite broken up, it was scarcely possible to get back to Germany and nothing could be done in France.

The historians of America are a goodly company, scarcely less worthy than the champions whose deeds they have chronicled.

His passion for music was scarcely less than his interest in speculation and history.

What could the discredited leader say? He began in a voice scarcely above a whisper, though in the silence it was distinctly audible, but the tones strengthened and deepened as he proceeded.

The destinies of the two peoples are scarcely less interlocked at the present moment.

In my time the old tree still cast its shade over the highway which had scarcely yet ceased to be a village street.

I have scarcely ever received a compliment in which I took more pride than when Eliot at the end, as we stood sweating and happy at the boathouse, told me that I had proved myself a good pilot.

My voice sounded out into the great space in which the echo of Lowell's was scarcely silent.

One of our number had an unfair advantage, his length of leg being so great that as he bestrode the post, he scarcely needed to take his feet from the ground, while for the rest of us a good hop was necessary fairly to clear the top.

Of late the Ampelopsis has taken it into its especial cherishing, draping it with a close green luxuriance that can scarcely be matched elsewhere.

Running back from it in an almost infinite series was the many-ordered life adhering at last and scarcely distinguishable from the inorganic matter to which it clung.

From the steepness of the narrow roads and streets, wheeled vehicles can scarcely be used, and sledges drawn by small bullocks supply their place, while the wine, the chief article of export, is conveyed into the town in goat-skins carried on the shoulder.

The morning was beautifully fine, and with a light breeze scarcely sufficient to cause a ripple on the water, we were slipping past the high and remarkable promontory of Cape Frio, which at first appeared like an island.

The variety of fruits and vegetables is great, that of fish scarcely less so.

A more lovely spot can scarcely be found, than the secluded bay of Botafogo with its pretty village, and the noble Corcovado mountain immediately behind, and we paid it other visits.

The national character, however, can scarcely be considered as fully formed; the Brazilians have been too recently emancipated from the thraldom of a modified despotism to have made, as yet, any very great progress in developing the elements of national prosperity and greatness which the vast empire of Brazil so abundantly possesses, and the foul blot of slavery, with its debasing influence, still remains untouched.

Simon's Town is a small straggling place of scarcely any importance, except in connection with the naval establishment kept up heredockyard, hospital, etc.this being the headquarters of the Cape station.

The neighbourhood is singularly dreary and barren, with comparatively little level ground, and scarcely any susceptible of cultivation.

The bottom is mud, which, they say, is fast accumulating, especially in a small bight called the Trou Fanfaron, where a few years ago a line-of-battle ship could float, but which has now scarcely water enough for a large corvette.

Amidst all this the French language prevails; everything more or less pertains of the French character, and an Englishman can scarcely believe that he is in one of the colonies of his own country.

These and other claims of the colonists have, I need scarcely add, been fully admitted by the recent separation from New South Wales of the Port Phillip district, now the colony of Victoria.) GEELONG.

I could scarcely believe, at first, that it was the same person; but, when he spoke, despite the pomp and obscurity of his language.

"Shall nobody lend me the watch?" asked the Chevalier; but in a voice so hoarse that I scarcely recognised it.

Scarcely knowing what I did, and quite forgetting the audience, I jumped on the platform to his aid.

Scarcely had she spoken the words when the Chevalier opened his eyes, and, by a supreme effort, sat upright in his bed.