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Example sentences for "scarcely ever"

  • Stems commonly cohering at the base, varying very much in stature in the same cluster; varying also much thinner, scarcely ever curved-ascending.

  • The primary form, which is very different from all the rest, is curt, obese, robust, scarcely ever infundibuliform.

  • The pilei are most frequently oblique, extended and lobed on one side as in Hygrophorous conicus, scarcely ever depressed.

  • This last talent he pushed almost to falsehood, but never to deceit, pluming himself upon keeping his word,--therefore he scarcely ever gave it.

  • The power of the terrestrial mammalia to cross the sea is very limited, and it was before stated that the same species is scarcely ever common to districts widely separated by the ocean.

  • But the marine mollusks of the Baltic above mentioned, although very numerous in individuals, are dwarfish in size, scarcely ever attaining a third of the average dimensions which they acquire in the salter waters of the ocean.

  • He scarcely ever read, for he only possessed one shelf of books.

  • He scarcely ever spoke to strangers, and coloured violently when spoken to.

  • I scarcely ever ventured to leave her for a moment as long as we stayed at home, always inventing an excuse to walk behind her whenever she went upstairs, for fear she should suddenly fall.

  • Even the race prejudices which he allowed himself to indulge, in letters and talk, against Irishmen, Frenchmen, and Jews, scarcely ever appear in his books.

  • It scarcely ever ventures to attack a man, but will often follow him for a long distance as though waiting an opportunity to pounce upon him unawares.

  • As a rule, however, it is a very gentle and peaceable animal, scarcely ever venturing to attack man, and only dwelling in those remote parts of the jungle to which even hunters seldom find their way.

  • She came home but seldom, and when she did we scarcely ever talked to each other.

  • I scarcely ever listened to these stories without invoking imprecations upon the infidels, but I enjoyed them all the same.

  • Since they had left the hill above the mirage sea they had scarcely ever alluded to their night there.

  • I scarcely ever felt a stirring of worldly desire.

  • Father, I've scarcely ever been of any use all my life.

  • As I told you, the English theatre is not fashionable, and is scarcely ever visited by what is called 'good company.

  • It scarcely ever rains on the Peruvian coast, but a heavy dew, during part of the year, falls on the valleys.

  • The latter metal is scarcely ever found in South America, but I believe there are traces of it in parts of Bolivia.

  • They spent many days and nights at their banquets and drinking bouts; and certainly it is marvellous the quantity of chicha that these Indians drink, indeed the glass is scarcely ever out of their hands.

  • And he was forthwith sent out to carry into execution the dreams of half a life, which he scarcely ever expected to realize.

  • His days were indeed full days, and he scarcely ever went to bed until he had shaken himself out of nodding asleep over his table three or four times.

  • I scarcely ever saw so much astonishment pictured in the countenance of any man as in that of the master of the brig.

  • I scarcely ever go to their shops with money if I have it.

  • I scarcely ever sold a shawl to any other merchant than him.

  • He scarcely ever spoke, and looked at you sideways with a sly, sulky, wild-beast-like expression.

  • She gave me to understand all the same that he scarcely ever worked, and that he remained for months together without opening a book or touching a pen.

  • Like an amusing comedy, it scarcely ever ended in blows.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bitter grief; but from; coarse cloth; drawing them; greatly improved; handsome face; its position; monument erected; more open; objective case; perfectly free; proverbial expression; raise money; scarcely able; scarcely daring; scarcely ever; scarcely knew; scarcely know; scarcely knowing; scarcely likely; scarcely necessary; scarcely need; scarcely perceptible; she wrote; stand close; thou blessed