Therewith the gardener showed Raphael the inexorable piece of skin; there were barely six square inches of it left.
Barely a league from the village Raphael discovered a nook where nature seemed to have taken a pleasure in hiding away all her treasures like some glad and mischievous child.
Instead he gulped down the saké, until then barely touched, to the maid's great astonishment.
She isbarely of twenty years; outstripping in beauty the greatest of the Go Tayu.
At this period she was barelythirty years, in the full development of her charms.
To-day there are barely a thousand students, chiefly from its own province; among the ten universities of Spain the former leader takes a very lowly place.
The bushes and hedges put on fresh coats of green, and barely a month after the trees had been stripped of their myriad oranges, the same trees were covered with white blossoms.
He had begun writing when very young, thus "El Clavo," a powerful sketch, was done when barely twenty.
No wonder, for the passages called streets are barely wide enough for three to walk abreast, and they twist and bend in true oriental fashion.
Even if one barely knows a word of the language, it is not foolhardy to explore the distant provinces.
Rome raised not art, but barely kept alive, And with old Greece unequally did strive; Till Goths and Vandals, a rude northern race, Did all the matchless monuments deface.
The lack of governmental sanction hampered the Hobebe Zion societies in Russia in their activities, and the funds at their disposal were barely sufficient for the upkeep of one or two colonies in Palestine.
It was barely half-past three, yet two lamps were already burning under elaborate pink shades, and there was a profusion of flowers on the mantelpiece and on the small tables with which the floor was crowded.
I am really barely good-looking, but I give an impression of prettiness by my vivacity and strict attention to business.
Suppose, with one set of bills barely settled, she were called upon to incur a second!
The second fawn followed her instantly; but the heedless one barely swung his head to see where she was going, and then came on towards the light, staring and stamping in foolish wonder.
Two got away safely; the other had barely spread his wings when a black animal leaped out of the grass for his neck and pulled him down, flapping and croaking desperately.
A low signal that I could barely hear, a swift movement--then the flock thundered away in scattered flight into the silent, friendly woods.
I speak of him as old, and indeed we always called him Old Childe among ourselves; yet he was barely fifty.
It was barely the fraction of a second, but it was time enough for the transmission of a message.
Oliver's intended marriage had hastened this decision, and there would be barely time to settle matters and reach New York in season for the wedding.
She leaned back in her seat, barely pretending to listen to the young man's conversation, her lips a little curled, her own face the very prototype of aristocratic languor!
There was barely a second of light; then with a sharp click the lamp went out, and the figure of the man was lost in obscurity.
He was barely half a mile away and saw the whole thing.
Something he saw barely a hundred yards from the little iron fence which bordered the lawns, attracted his attention.
The waves which rolled almost to her feet were barely ripples, breaking with scarcely a visible effort upon the moist sand.
Captain Ackinson's acknowledgment of the introduction was barely civil.
I could barely make out the outline of him in the darkness, and could not see his eyes.
The marchese may well have thought me reserved, for it is true that I could barely be civil to him.
That second day of mine I could barely hobble twelve miles, and nothing but resolution could do that much for me.
I scarcely heard him, and was perhaps barely civil.
Yet nobody questioned his absolute right, and nobody seemed unhappy, nor looked out at any prospect but unremitting, barely remunerative labour from year's end to year's end.
He had barely time to free himself from the shaggy roof, when he looked around and saw that the buck was coming again.
In point of incident it is rather more than ordinarily realistic, as the two heroes in their experiences pass through the recent calamitous forest fires in northern Minnesota, and barely escape with their lives.
But Bob was in a panic, and instead of waiting to see how his friends made out, he broke into a run that was never stopped until, panting and tired, he could barely stand.
The buckets were full when they left the hands of the men nearest the stream, but when they got to those on the roof there was barely a quarter pail-full of the fluid left, so much had spilled out.
As it was, the motor boat barely grazed the side of the other craft, and then shot out into the middle of the stream.
Torrents of rain are not infrequent in winter and spring, but the small quantity of water which they furnish is quickly evaporated, and barely keeps alive the meagre vegetation in the bottom of the valleys.
The bodies of the common people, usually naked and uncoffined, were thrust under the sand, at a depth of barely three feet from the surface.
Pete had barely time to mutter an audible "I thought so!
She had barely touched his fingers when the horse shied and reared.
He held barely enough slack to make the snubbing-post, but finally took a turn round it and fought the horse up.
He could barely reach her hand across the intervening expanse of leather couch, but he accomplished it,--he was too wise to move closer to her.
I can just barelymanage to be grown up in the bosom of my family, and when I am in the company of your esteemed Aunt Beulah, but up here in my room, Eleanor, I am never grown up.
His privateering ventures had been cleared up, but with profits barely sufficient to meet his debts.
The Catholic priests hitherto seen in the colonies had been barely tolerated in the limited districts where they labored.
It was in the dining-room we proposed to make a first night of it, and barelyhad we settled down for a chat when footsteps were distinctly heard in the hall.
Barely had I dodged it when bang came another, whilst not a sound disturbed the peaceful repose of the camp.
Here about the same time Hastings, Fred Granville, and roysterers of a more pronounced type looked in for a breakfast of “fixed bayonets” by way of appetite for the dinner at Limmer’s that most of them would barely touch.
Barely had I risen to my feet when, with a roar, the brute was close behind me, and at the very moment I dashed into the pond he aimed a blow at me which grazed my forehead, and I fell prostrate into it.
Barely had it ceased when the battleships of England, France, and Sweden followed—not simultaneously, but one after another—and again the Grand Duke arose and proposed the Queen of England to a repetition of the same diabolical accompaniment.
At its far end she could barely distinguish a shadowy figure which soon merged into the black of the starless night.
Yet so swift was his next action, that she barely discerned it.
The horses shifted their weight, resting one leg with the hoof barely touching the earth, twitched their ears at the flies and slept again.
The first train was barely unloaded when the second trailed in and out on the siding; and so the third came also.
Below him surged the sea of hide and horns which was barely suggestive of the animals as individuals.
Some time after nightfall a carter was driving home by Factory Road, when just as he was nearing Long Bridge one of his horses shied so violently that he barely escaped being thrown from his seat.
So lingeringly and with such dread was this done, that she could barely hold back her weak woman's scream in the intensity of her suspense.
This species is barely visible with the naked eye, moves readily and is found more frequently upon children than upon adults.
The progress of the travellers grew slower and slower, and the Count began to calculate that at their present rate of speed they could but barely arrive in time.
With his heart in his mouth Dick stole across to them on tiptoe, and had barely gained their shelter when the man released the tubs which had just ascended, and added them to those that were arranged along the opposite wall.
With barely steerage way the launch moved noiselessly forward.
Ken followed, and they had barely reached the rail when the big liner rolled slowly over on to her side.
Already the first of their pursuers were in sight round the curve of the ravine, barely three hundred yards away.
At the same moment two Turks, big, black-bearded fellows, came leaping out of a patch of scrub, barely twenty yards behind Dave.
She was barely five hundred feet up, and heading straight for the village.
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