He could scarcely be recognized, exhausted with fatigue, broken with grief.
However, Port Balloon was so well hidden among high rocks, that it could scarcely be discovered either from the land or the sea.
While going over the bridges, I found myself so affected that I could scarcely proceed.
Torn by opposite passions, at the same time that I was sensible of her caresses, I could scarcely contain my anger when I saw her wanting in good manners to Madam d'Houdetot.
The moon was not yet set, and we were all in shadow: I could scarcely see my master's face, near as I was.
He drew his breath short, and strained me so close to him, I could scarcely pant.
While Andrew was waiting until Colonel Ritter came for him to drive to the town, he sat trembling in every limb, and thought he could scarcely stand up, he was so happy and so excited.
It was in vain that Pen recalled to his own mind what a stupid ass Foker used to be at school--how he could scarcely read, how he was not cleanly in his person, and notorious for his blunders and dulness.
Long after he had become assured that these sounds were but the creation of his excited brain, he still held on, at a pace which even weakness and exhaustion could scarcely retard.
He was so astounded, not to say awed, by something of a mute compassion for himself which was visible in their manner and in that of the old clerk, that he could scarcely speak.
I could scarcely eat or drink; but I felt that she loved me a little in return, for I was a fine young fellow, and more than one girl had set her cap at me.
A servant entered, with a scared look on his face, and so out of breath from having come up the stairs four at a time, that hecould scarcely speak.
Besides all this, I have many a time had to help him up to his room, and put him to bed, when the waiters from the restaurants brought him home in a carriage, so drunk that he could scarcely say a word.
At length, I determined to withdraw, and, leaving the food where it could scarcely fail of attracting his notice, I returned by the way that I had come.
I could scarcely confide in the testimony of my senses.
Fortune, in her most wayward mood, could scarcely be suspected of an influence like this.
I had seen the bastards grow in rank and importance with an indignation and disgust I could scarcely contain.
Livry found it so heavy that he could scarcely lift it from the table, and gave it to an attendant who presented himself.
The Prince of Orange said that the retreat was a miracle he could not have hoped for; that he could scarcely believe in it, but that it had saved his army, and the whole of the Low Countries.
The prospect for the afternoon pleased him greatly, and a long tete-a-tete with Annie among the grand and beautiful solitudes of nature had for him an attraction that he could scarcely understand.
At first it appeared a double grief that he could scarcely endure, for it seemed that if he went back now Annie would be lost to him beyond hope.
He felt so stiff and ill he could scarcely move, and with difficulty made his way to the room below.
I was so weak that I could scarcely do more than look appealingly to you and stretch out my hands.
After he had got as many furs in the mountains as filled his hand-sledge so full that he could scarcely drag it, he returned home from the woods.
Rain and mist were nothing to this son of the briny ocean, the sunshine was in his heart, and he could scarcely believe in the wonderful good fortune which was to give him the brightest, the dearest, the handsomest girl in the town.
The gag had been removed from his mouth, but his hands were still firmly pinioned, and he was so securely strapped into the chair which held him that he could scarcelymove a limb.
But I could scarcely take a step so decisive without provoking inquiry; and I dared not at this stage let the King know of my negligence.
I was thunderstruck at this--at the message, and at the man's manner; and for a moment I could scarcely restrain my indignation.
When the roofs of the chateau at length appeared before us, I could scarcely keep my pace within bounds.
Remembering that only that morning I had had to stop some necessary works through lack of means, I could scarcely restrain my indignation.
How to punish the traitor was another matter, for I could scarcely do so adequately without betraying my negligence.
The dust thickened about Mr. Heatherbloom's head so that he could scarcely see.
The single silken band did not suffice; other cords, diverted from the ornamental to a like practical purpose, were wound around and around his excellency's legs and arms, holding him so tightly to the chair he could scarcely move.
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