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Example sentences for "scarcely possible"

  • Unconscious selection blends with methodical, so that it is scarcely possible to separate them.

  • An increase of its actual power by accumulation in time or place is scarcely possible.

  • Whether this state of mutual feeling is best furthered by the patriarchal system, by a police system, or by free competition, it is scarcely possible to say.

  • It is scarcely possible to doubt that the long-continued selection of qualities serviceable to man has been the chief agent in the formation of the several breeds of the horse.

  • It is scarcely possible to avoid laying stress on the commonness of a breed; and if certain foreign sub-breeds had been largely kept in this country they would perhaps have been raised to the rank of main-breeds.

  • Although the wings and tail often vary in length independently of each other, it is scarcely possible to doubt that they generally tend to become elongated or shortened in correlation.

  • From these considerations it follows that the perfect identity of very ancient and very modern volcanic formations is scarcely possible.

  • It is scarcely possible to determine the age of the oldest part of the fresh- water series of the Limagne, large masses both of the sandy and marly strata being devoid of fossils.

  • Such a child will almost always be too much noticed; and it is scarcely possible entirely to guard against the evil: hence vanity, and under bad management selfishness of the worst kind.

  • It will be scarcely possible for a future generation of philosophers to imagine with what an undisciplined ardour the anti-phlogistic system, thus enhanced by a new and fascinating nomenclature, was supported throughout Europe.

  • Distinctions might be established in pursuing the various modifications or properties of electricity in these different forms; but it is scarcely possible to avoid being struck by another relation of this subject.

  • In large old specimens there are ten, or even more, whorls of compartments, but it is scarcely possible to count them with any accuracy.

  • In the first place, I think, it is scarcely possible to recognise a species when under the 1/10th of an inch in diameter.

  • It is scarcely possible to be very sorry for Jerome.

  • It is scarcely possible for a poet satisfactorily to connect innocence with ultimate unhappiness, when the notion of a future life is excluded.

  • It is scarcely possible to read Darwin's graphic description of the struggle for existence among animals and plants, and not marvel at their survival.

  • So frequent is the recurrence of these expressions that it is scarcely possible to open any portion of his work and not alight on one.

  • It is scarcely possible to conceive a more demoralising influence than a priesthood living such a life as I have described.

  • When we reflect upon this fact, it is scarcely possible not to believe that the function has been ordained for some greater purpose than that of removing a portion of carbon from the circulating blood.

  • Imagine a party of grave philosophers, with bags of silk tied to their mouths, stamping, roaring, and laughing about the apartment; it is scarcely possible to conceive a richer subject for the pencil of a Bunbury.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already observed; assistant editor; before being; considerable influence; describing the; each community; else they; great horse; international conference; lost characters; natural conditions; rich harvest; scarcely able; scarcely audible; scarcely conscious; scarcely daring; scarcely ever; scarcely knew; scarcely likely; scarcely need; scarcely perceptible; scarcely possible; scarcely think; seemed that; this city; until lately