I did not know what it was to be HAPPY for a WHOLE day at a TIME, scarcely for an hour.

Global warming has melted the polar ICE caps, raised the LEVELS of the oceans and flooded the EARTH's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, NEW Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

One of the things that probably drew me to WRITING was that it was something you COULD get on with by yourself. Publishing means GOING public. But the actual ACTIVITY could scarcely be more invisible. And PRIVATE.

She GAVE me another piece of INFORMATION which EXCITED other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were ALWAYS baptized and immediately strangled!

He was scarcely then a YEAR old, and knew so little of herding that he had never TURNED a sheep in his life; but as soon as he DISCOVERED it was his duty to do so I can never FORGET with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

If you haven't UNDERSTOOD that if you are born you DIE, you scarcely DESERVE to be able to be alive.

When the economies of emerging MARKETS don't just GROW but BEAT EXPECTATIONS, there's scarcely a MENTION.

Scarcely one PERSON in a THOUSAND is CAPABLE of tasting the HAPPINESS of OTHERS.