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Example sentences for "scarce knowing"

  • I cried, scarce knowing what I said; "no, not there!

  • He responded, scarce knowing why he did so, to the positive current.

  • She held out her hand, and he took it, scarce knowing--that it was hers.

  • I followed, scarce knowing what I did, halted at the threshold and drew back, for I had been upon holy ground.

  • Dazed, scarce knowing whether he was awake or asleep and dreaming, he obeyed her, leading the horse away some paces so that it should be no more frightened by the horrible burden of the gibbet, and following her through a thicket.

  • Each looked at the other, scarce knowing what to do.

  • Others following closely up, were passed along also, till half a dozen were thus promiscuously piled up, scarce knowing how to find themselves.

  • I came near despondency, scarce knowing where I was, or whither going, till I aroused from my reverie by the boat striking against the wharf.

  • Scarce knowing what I did, I went on with my formal accusation.

  • I stood before her, scarce knowing what to say.

  • These things and many others I saw, scarce knowing what I saw.

  • And without another spoken word she moved away, and left me in the green pleasaunces of the garden, with my heart riven this way and that, scarce knowing what I did or where I stood.

  • Between the two plantations, lying contiguous, Colonel Armstrong comes and goes, scarce knowing which is his proper place of residence.

  • But with a last desperate resolve, and effort mechanical, scarce knowing what he does, he raises the piece to his shoulder, and fires.

  • For a time he stands gazing upon them, scarce knowing what to do.

  • They are the words of one frantic with grief, scarce knowing what he says.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    administrator appointed; beautiful green; but all; could meet; different races; goes through the town; hath taken; model aeroplane; national prosperity; scarce necessary; scarcely audible; scarcely conscious; scarcely daring; scarcely ever; scarcely know; scarcely less; scarcely likely; scarcely more; scarcely necessary; scarcely need; scarcely perceptible; scarcely think; seven times; stay with; took pains; uncle said