Like every Spaniard, Vasco Nuñez knew that he could expect little mercy andscant justice from a trial conducted under such auspices as Pedrarias's.
And so poor Pippa passes on, consoled for the wearisome silk-winding, the scant food, scant raiment, scanthuman love.
Good afternoon," the minister reiterated curtly, showing his visitor to the door with very scant courtesy.
At any rate," I said, consoling myself for hisscant hours with me, "we shall have all day Sunday together.
His petitions met, however, with scant success in Paris, Lisbon, and Madrid, and it was only from Pope Gregory XIII.
Sir, you are verie welcome to our house: It must appeare in other waies then words, Therefore I scant this breathing curtesie Gra.
Besides, the hospitals are full to overflowing, and you’d get scant attention in most of them.
Within half a minute he had called all the drivers to the guns to take the places of their dead or dying comrades, and still each gun was being operated by a detachment too scant in numbers for effectiveness of fire.
His love is in fact more scant than that of his jester who helps him to put rhymes together.
The nobles from other districts appeared in scant numbers only, and the country was left undefended; but God-fearing Lauda had appeared in full quota.
Somehow one got scant comfort of the retort obvious, that if Lynn did paint his nose he at least did it with nothing more harmful than paint.
The girl swerved away from the hand, shrinking to the wall, her scant natural colour ebbing till the rouge was livid on cheeks and lips, while her eyes grew hard and hot.
He was under no misapprehension as to the sort of welcome awaiting him, but, like an early Christian martyr on the way to the arena, he proceeded with high courage if scant enthusiasm.
But there was scant time for conjectures, for the pursuit was in sight.
Steve's father had had her built only a little more than a year ago and she had seen but scant service.
Friends and acquaintances made during their former visit had done everything possible to make the boys' stay so very more than pleasant, and when the matter of going on was introduced the suggestion met with scant sympathy.
For the next month the expedition moved steadily north-west into the Kalahari, trekking with infinite toil from onescant pit of water to another.
In front we made two good fires, and then, having eaten a scant supper, we sat smoking and talking beneath the warm starlight.
The click of billiard balls from either inn gave further tone to the somewhat scant air of civilisation.
But it was terribly hot, and the scant water was all but finished now.
The street was full narrow, and the houses leaned forward from either side, so as to leave but scant vision of the blue sky above, and there were plenty of windows in each story.
English cooks and housewives are ready to go mad on the subject of scouring pots and pans, but pay scant heed to what goes into, much less what comes out of them.
Instead of the vine, the peach, and the olive, we are in a region of scant fruitage, and only the hardiest crops, apple orchards sparsely mingled with fields of oats and rye.
For the most part our passengers, alike first and second class, pay scant heed to the scenery; the tiny salle-a-manger below and the resources of the kitchen seem more attractive.
He informed me that he owned four hundred hectares, that is to say, nearly a thousand acres, a considerable portion of which consisted of rocky waste or scant pasturage.
This drink was nutritious, refreshing, and cooling, and was especially a favorite with those called upon to perform fatiguing labor with scant food.
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!
It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.
What scant possessions he had would fall into her claws if at any minute she might choose to denounce him.
He was now silent awhile, his strong, handsome features clear to see, as they lay on the scant grass in the sunshine.
Sol had scant judgment and one suit of clothes available; the other, sopping wet from the wash, now swayed in the process of drying on an elder-bush in the dooryard.
Send as stout a ship as we are to the bottom with scant warning!
Whether the tower had been built for a fort, or only a mill, or a look-out place, it was difficult to discover in the scantlight we had.
I am not certain whether to translate "Sa'alab" by fox or jackal; the Arabs make scantdistinction between them.
Then she was fain To appease his anger by some lavish gift From scant resources, which she ill could spare, Making the evil worse.
Here was the budding, there the perfect flower, Here the faint star, and there the unsetting sun, Here the scant preface, there the open Book Where angels read forever.
I come again," he smiled apologetically, "because tomorrow our journeys part, and I have shown scant consideration for your kindness.
Passing that afternoon beneath Morro Castle, the Whim tacked prettily through the entrance of Havana harbor and in another scant two miles dropped anchor.
His clothing was too scant to hide the great muscles beneath, and Tommy touched my arm, saying: "There's a specimen for you!
