This plagiarism, if it may be so called, was to the credit of Hogarth's taste; for with all his own amazing powers of expression, he could scarcely have hoped to equal such inimitable representations.
In both cases the hand is employed about minute parts, but the mind scarcelyever embraces the whole.
The lavish profusion which our people of rank then displayed in their presents to this band of quavering exotics is scarcely credible.
The circumstance is scarcely worth notice except as a singular proof that such a hallucination could exist in the mind of the same genius that perfected the first practical steam-engine.
Scarcely had the smoke cleared away when the magician handed the plate with the three marked bullets rolling about in it.
Each of them had a second kite attached; for, unless there had been a very strong wind, one would scarcely have dragged them on.
Few were more than a year or two older than he was, and scarcely any were taller or more active; indeed, he was the acknowledged best player of his set.
When Ernest and his party came up they found Bouldon and Gregson on the ground, both of them so much hurt as to be scarcely able to rise.
Even Ernest could scarcely help laughing at the curious contortions of countenance in which he indulged.
Ellis could scarcely trust himself to speak, but he was not the less pleased to hear his friend thus eulogised.
Probably Lemon himself was scarcely aware how popular he really was; and certainly he would have been fully satisfied with the grounds on which his popularity was founded.
The besiegers and besieged pelted away with tremendous energy, till the former were covered with snow from head to foot, while the latter could scarcely show their faces above the walls.
He had bestowed the same attention and energy on all the subjects he had studied; he had given them his entire mind; all his talents had been employed on them; consequently, he could scarcely fail to obtain a similar success in all.
He seized it, and was hurrying back, scarcely restraining a shout of triumph, when Ernest saw him.
One more run he thought he could attempt, for Reynolds could scarcely hit him at that distance.
Scarcely had he begun to work, when he was perceived by the vigilant rebel marksmen, who immediately opened fire.
There was no longer any doubt in the doctor's mind of the existence of some connection or intimacy between the pirate and the patrician, which the mere fact of the former's having once lived in Belton would scarcely account for.
He scarcely desired the one without the other; for once she had pitied him, and that pity had left a sting which could only be healed by the salve of admiration.
Meanwhile Mark and Edna were walking on in silence towards the street that led to the latter's home; Mark, in his elation, scarcely knowing how to broach the conversation.
He lacked oratorical ability, and without it, it is scarcely possible to attain eminence in a republic.
That was scarcely possible, since her mother had been ill and she had left at once.
In their animal kingdoms in particular, there is scarcelyany variation.
The colonists carry on a considerable commerce with this country, the East Indies, and China; but they have scarcely any article of export to offer in return for the various commodities supplied by those countries.
Rheumatic complaints, however, which are scarcely known there, exist here to a considerable extent.
Their moderation and forbearance under their grievances, have given them an additional claim to redress, scarcely less forcible than the existence of the grievances themselves.
In the feathered tribes of the two islands, there is scarcely any diversity; of this the wattle bird, which is about the size of a snipe, and considered a very great delicacy, is the only instance which I can cite.
What are they, in fact, compared even with those infinite minor navigable streams, of which scarcely any country, however circumscribed, is entirely destitute?
In the trees of the forest there is scarcely any difference.
This terrible calamity was said by the astrologers to have been brought about by an extraordinary conjunction of Saturn with the other planets, which happened scarcely once in a thousand years.
The streets and roads were filled with zealots who preached and prophesied of other misfortunes, to people who had scarcely recovered from the terror of those which were past.
We had been a good half-hour in the stream, which seemed to us intensely cold, and our teeth were chattering so that we could scarcely speak.
Fortunately the prisoners, such as had plain clothes in their possession, were permitted to wear them, otherwise the dream of freedom could scarcely have been indulged in.
Day had scarcely dawned before the Boers near the region of the waterworks apprised the convoy of their existence.
He was scarcely flattered to find a youngster determining to solve a problem which for a considerable time had defeated him, and therefore at the onset, in regard to the momentous plans for attack, the two commandants were scarcely at one.
Here, in this remote corner of South Africa, near the brown thatched cottages of Jan Massibi's staadt, was gathered around in the sunlight a stalwart company of picked men whose equal could scarcely be discovered in any part of the world.
They had heard this kind of thing before, and their despair lest the Boers should attack the town to obtain the release of Eloff was scarcely allayed.
Minutes had scarcely grown into hours before the Union Jack fluttered from every window, from every cart and 'bus, from every hand, and the roar of human joy was as the roar of the ocean in a tempest.
But their fatigues or its grievous memories scarcely damped their spirits, for they were on the confines of the Transvaal, and Pretoria, the land of promise, seemed near at hand.
The display to unprejudiced onlookers was distinctly poor, however, and the example of strategy set by the gallant Gaul scarcely served to demonstrate astounding military genius.
The column moved out from Brodie's Farm in the afternoon, and had scarcely started before they became aware that Boers were slinking everywhere, behind trees, in the scrub, in the dried grass of the veldt.
A more ingenious synchronal achievement can scarcely be imagined.
True, the ceremonial was scarcely as impressive as might have been the occupation of some less primitive capital; but its significance was twofold, and had ramifications far beneath the surface.
It was scarcely to be credited, but it was the truth!
Then, too, the pain was so great that he could scarcely keep from rolling on the ground.
She had been sold by her father when she was scarcely more than a baby, and had lived for five years with a number of other children in a wretched houseboat.
Celia would not permit it, and showed this so clearly from the start that there was scarcely need for her saying it.
His wife pursued her little pleasantry about Keturah, the second wife, urging him with mock gravity to scold her roundly for daring to usurp Sarah's place, but Theron scarcely heard her, and said next to nothing.
Save for an occasional isolated and taciturn figure among the nomadic portion of the hired help in the farm country, Theron had scarcely ever spoken to a person of this curiously alien race before.
In one sense, it was scarcely more human than the spectacle of a cat licking her kittens, or a cow giving suck to her calf.
He could scarcely keep the fingers of his hands, covering his bowed face in a devotional posture as they were, from drumming a jubilant tattoo.
Now she gave his jokes only a dutiful half-smile, and uttered scarcely a word in response to his running fire of talk.
We have scarcely begun even the physical conquest of the earth.
We are so accustomed to the ordinary modes of living that we scarcely realize what amount of time and strength might be saved by a simplified table and by more thoughtful methods of preparing food.
The automobile is already beginning to have its effect in certain rural communities, but we have yet scarcely begun to develop the type of auto-vehicle which is destined, I think, to make a very great change in country affairs.
When the new lands have all been opened to cultivation, and when thousands of millions of human beings occupy the earth, the demand for food will constitute a problem which we scarcelyapprehend to-day.
We are scarcely in sight of the good that such agencies could accomplish.
He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.
When I came with your sister from Chiswick, I was scarcely more than a child," Becky said.
Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.
Figs" was the fellow whom he despised most, and with whom, though always abusing him, and sneering at him, he scarcely ever condescended to hold personal communication.
He was scarcely out of the house, when Miss Maria and Miss Wirt rushed in to Miss Osborne, and the whole wonderful secret was imparted to them by that lady.
And Mr. Kirsch having lost all his money by this time, followed his master out into the moonlight, where the illuminations were winking out and the transparency over our mission was scarcely visible.
She could of late think of her own affairs, and smile or make other marks of recognition of her father's stories, scarcely hearing a word of the old man's tales.
Jane Osborne scarcely ever met a man under sixty, and almost the only bachelor who appeared in their society was Mr. Smirk, the celebrated ladies' doctor.
She never liked to come back to the house after she had left it, or to face the landlady who had tyrannized over her when ill-humoured and unpaid, or when pleased had treated her with a coarse familiarity scarcely less odious.
Gratitude among certain rich folks is scarcely natural or to be thought of.
You would scarcely have recognised the beaming little face upon Amelia's pillow that night as the one that was laid there the night before, so wan, so lifeless, so careless of all round about.
Rawdon Crawley paid scarcely any attention to Dobbin, looking upon him as a good-natured nincompoop and under-bred City man.
These were painted in very glowing colours, but scarcelyanswered the expectations of the colonists.
Some have no halls and small incomes, but there is scarcely a company which has not an interesting history, or which does not have some attractive and interesting historical associations.
What happened to the wall of London when the Roman occupation of Britain was determined by the withdrawal of the legions is a matter which scarcely falls within the scope of this paper.
We scarcely knew whether to haunt it in spectral fascination, or to shun it for the sake of our souls and our sanity.
Dazedness was uppermost, and I could scarcelyrecall what was dream and what was reality.
Bruno was his favorite hound, that had accompanied him on many a hunting excursion, and whom he loved scarcely less than Jack, his pony.
Scarcely had he finished when his mother caught him to her arms and kissed him a hundred times; while the others struggled to take him, the little fellow clung to her neck with all his strength.
The students were no exception to this theory; scarcely had they ceased to regard each other as friends when they began to feel as enemies.
The exterior is, after all, no bad type of what lies within; its contradictions are indeed scarcely as great.
It was only by the accidental discovery that my waistcoat could be made to fit by putting it twice round me, and that my coat was a dependency of which I was scarcely the nucleus, that I really became frightened.
Scarcely had I nodded my head twice in slumber, when a loud shout awoke me.
Of course, I needscarcely say that its benefits, if such they be, are reserved for the wealthy only.
Scarcely had we entered the low arched door, when the fumes of schnaps and tobacco nearly suffocated me; while the merry chorus of a drinking song, proclaimed that a jolly party was assembled.
In fact, they had been scarcely sufficient to meet the demands of Si's appetite, and his haversack had nothing in it to speak of.
The corn-house was surrounded by wagons, the roof was gently lifted off, and in scarcely more time than it takes to tell the story six or eight of the wagons were heaped with the contents.
The sound of the bugles had scarcely died away when the pike was deserted, and on either side, as far as the eye could reach, the prostrate men that covered the ground mingled in a long fringe of blue.
True, they could scarcely tell when Sunday came, but they knew that they kept right along every day.
SI KLEGG was a good specimen of a healthy, robust Hoosier lad--for he could scarcely be called' a man yet.
Si, for there wasscarcely any limit to his capacity.
In the gush of patriotic emotions that prompted him to enlist he scarcely thought of this feature of the case.
The roads were rivers of almost fathomless mud; and our tired men could scarcely drag themselves along.
The groans and cries of the wounded and dying, of which we so often read as filling up the grand discord of sounds on the battle-field, are things scarcely known in actual war.
Before each little log house by the roadside would stand a wondering group, astonished at seeing such multitudes of men in those secluded regions, where scarcely a dozen travelers usually passed in a week.
The Chickahominy wound its doubtful course among multitudes of islands scarcely raised above the surface, yet covered with trees, shrubs and vines in profusion, within a few rods of our camp.
Brief it was to be, for scarcely had two hours passed when we were ordered into line of battle.
Scarcely a man of the Union force was injured by this charge, but the dead and wounded from the rebel ranks literally covered the ground.
One could scarcely see his neighbor whose shoulder touched his own.
With scarcely any warning we found shells pitching into our camp among the standing tents, and bullets whistling among the trees that afforded us shelter from the sun.
Scarcely had we settled ourselves for a comfortable night's rest, when the clouds, which had been gathering since morning, broke in rain, and the delightful Indian summer gave way to the rainy winter of the south.
We had lost, as the cost of this brilliant victory, less than forty men in the army; and the confederate loss in killed and wounded was scarcely greater.
Then, bounding forward, the regiment reached the heights scarcely behind any of the regiments on the left, capturing a gun and many prisoners.
Scarcely had the troops crossed the bridge, when the cavalry of the enemy made its appearance on the south side of the river.
Then, looking at her dress, from which Hans could scarcelyremove his eyes, she cried out: "Ugh!
But the stalwart, officious man in blue is ever on the scene, and the thrashing of a puny cleric or sawbones is scarcely compensation for a month's hard labour.
He did not mention the incident to his friends, but he was scarcely surprised when, in the course of the next few days, a cablegram was received with the tidings that the material counterpart of his vision had been killed in action.
West India Islands, without which they couldscarcely subsist.
They will be able to inform you of everything of a public nature much better than I can do, as I have scarcely had opportunity to look about me as yet.
Scarcely ever any Minister executed a commission for making a peace, without ruining his own reputation, in a free government.
In the midst of a war in Germany, and between France and England, there was scarcely ever a greater dearth of news in a profound peace.
The republic of Genoa is scarcely known at this day in Europe, but by those powers who borrow money.
Party influence was scarcely felt; and it may be said with confidence, that no legislature has been chosen under the State government which contained a larger proportion of aged, intelligent men, than were found in that body.
He further adds, "several members of that assembly were men of the first order of talents; and, with scarcely an exception, they would all be now estimated as well qualified for State legislation.
Since this discovery several persons have had their friends dug up, who were found quite naked, and some mangled in so horrible a manner as could scarcely be suppos'd to be done by a human creature.
She obeyed and leaned against him as they moved on slowly; it was too dark for them to see each other's faces clearly, a storm was gathering, the outlines of the house they were approaching, were scarcely distinguishable.
Stooping, with eyes so blinded with tears that she could scarcely see the pieces she took into her hand, she picked up each bit, and then on the spur of the moment hid them among the thick branches of hemlock.
You are a lesson that I have learned, but I have scarcely begun to learn him.
It's so wonderful for his father to trust him that he can scarcely believe it; he says his father must think he is some one else's son.
But scarcely had she touched the keys before she heard voices out in the rain and feet upon the piazza.
He did not study his features as Prudence had studied hers that morning; he knew so little about his own face that he could scarcely distinguish a good portrait of himself from a poor one; but Prudence knew it by heart.
