She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great…

— Ruben Dario

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

— P. T. Barnum

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

— Kenneth Fisher

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

— Mark Twain

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that…

— Seth Shostak

“Such weakness can scarcely be conceived, and to those who have never been similarly situated will, no doubt, appear unnatural;”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

“Not that it was not a nightmare. It was, but of a very special kind he was scarcely old enough to appreciate.”

— Malcolm Lowry

“In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.”

— Anthony Powell

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

— Antonio Porchia

“The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.”

— Terrance Dicks

When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her…

— Edmund White

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

— Cole Younger

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea…

— John James Audubon