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Sentences starting with barely

Barely had she reached the deep water beyond the sands when her length began to shorten, and the dense cloud of smoke that rose made it plain that she was firing. [9]

Short sentences using barely

Virginia barely returned his bow. [9]
I barely touched him. [9]

Sentences containing barely two or more times

They picked her up and flung her around like nothing and landed her gently on the solid, smooth bottom of sand--so gently, indeed, that we barely felt her touch it, barely felt her quiver when she came to a standstill. [5]

More example sentences with the word barely in them

I told you, you remember, that Rosa would have to leave us; we barely missed a scene, I think, if not a whole tragedy, by her going at the right moment. [6]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
And then--she awoke with the light shining in her face, and barely had time to dress before the conductor was calling out "Jersey City. [9]
From the time when he could barely handle tools until he attained his majority, Lincoln's life was that of a simple farm laborer, poorly clad, housed, and fed, at work either on his father's wretched farm or hired out to neighboring farmers. [7]
Yet the consequences were by no means light, for when he, Pyramus, left him, he was barely able to totter from one chair to another. [10]
His book is well written and is exceedingly entertaining, and so it just barely escaped being quite valuable also. [5]
But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate. [2]
But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, "Brothers! [2]
Hands were flung up that were past counting, and men who were barely rested from the hardships of the Wilderness Trail shouted their readiness to go. [9]
We had barely twenty minutes for our observations, when it was time to go; and had scarcely left the peak when the clouds enveloped it. [4]
Seeing him talking to Patty, my aunt rose abruptly from her loo and made toward us, all paint and powder and patches, her chin in the air, which barely enabled her to look over Miss Swain's head. [9]
I drove cityward through the rain, mechanically taking the familiar turns in the road, barely missing a man in a buggy at a four-corners. [9]
Wriggling my way through the people, I had barely reached the gate when I saw Monsieur Vigo and the priest, three Creole gentlemen in uniform, and several others coming out of the door. [9]
He had stood there dripping barely fifteen minutes when loud shouts and yells were heard on the road from Pelusium by which he had come, and upon the flooded dike appeared a body of men rushing forward with marvellous speed. [10]
We then marched the men down the incline to the creek; the water at this time barely running. [5]
I barely suggest that you, or any of the friends there, on the party account, look it over, and exclude what you may think would embarrass the party bearing in mind, at all times, that I authorize nothing--will be responsible for nothing. [7]
Octavianus had half surrendered to her, but recovered his self-command in time, and a man of his temperament does not readily succumb twice to a danger which he barely escaped. [10]
I made a sufficiently indecorous figure as I ran towards the water-side, barely nodding to my acquaintances on the way. [9]
But their owner suddenly sprang from a ditch near by, and he barely escaped his pursuit. [10]
Thus in the spring Machetes pugnax retains his ruff for barely two months. [1]
But there was something more in him, barely hidden, a something personal and sinister, a deep of himself, an engulfing abyss. [13]
Pfuel barely glanced--not so much at Prince Andrew as past him--and said, with a laugh: "That must have been a fine tactical war"; and, laughing contemptuously, went on into the room from which the sound of voices was heard. [2]
This one was skipping about the upper great heights of the mosque --skipping across empty yawning intervals which were almost too wide for him, and which he only just barely cleared, each time, by the skin of his teeth. [5]
He was a skeleton when he came, and could barely stand. [5]
The poor schoolmaster shook his head, and said that they barely filled the two forms. [12]
A repast was served, and he shared it with his niece; but Iras did not touch the carefully chosen viands, and Archibius barely tasted them. [10]
His left side seemed completely paralysed, and his tongue could barely lisp a few unintelligible words. [10]
The Governor was seated at a desk under an elaborate chandelier, and sure enough, Colonel Varney was there beside him; making barely perceptible signals. [9]
A schooner was sailing for Annapolis early the next morning, and I barely had time to get off my baggage and catch her. [9]
It may be said, however, that no greater menace to democracy could have arisen than the one we seem barely to have escaped--the control of politics and government by the capitalistic interests of the nation. [9]
Where were the refutations which he had made ready in case of a barely possible need? [9]
The Century Magazine proposed another set of letters, but by the end of July he had barely begun on those promised to McClure and Laffan. [5]
It is barely possible that things might have presently settled down into their old rut and the mystery have lost the bulk of its romantic sublimity in Laura's eyes, if the village gossips could have quieted down. [5]
They received him pleasantly enough, Althea alone barely noticed his greeting; she seemed to suspect in what way he thought of her. [10]
It was barely perceptible and gone almost as soon as seen, yet I am pleased to put it on record that on one occasion at least in his life the Scarabee smiled. [6]
But the wax pear is only to look at, can barely be touched, far less could it afford refreshment to the thirsty and the sick. [10]
He was barely out of sight before a second cry came from the masthead: "Another sail rounding Flamborough, sir! [9]
Jameson, and those other knights of adventure, were captured by the forces of "Oom Paul," and some of them barely escaped execution. [5]
Even now the old gentleman barely vouchsafed him a greeting. [10]
The hovel out of which pussy has crept is small and barely furnished; it would be perfectly dark too, but that the holes in the roof and the rift in the door admit light into this most squalid room. [10]
Several other friends of mine were indulging in brief intervals of rest on the ground, and I barely avoided stepping on them. [9]
On the day of her betrothal she had rushed into his arms with a warm and grateful heart, and he had kissed her, as custom dictated; but it was done in a strange way--his thin, well-cut lips had barely brushed her brow. [10]
A dense growth of ash, oak, gum, and hickory make the shores almost impenetrable, and where one can get a view down some avenue in the trees, only the dim outlines of distant trunks can be barely distinguished in the gloom. [5]
The farmer was occupying the middle of the road with his wagon, leaving barely fourteen or fifteen yards of space on either side. [5]
The hoarseness was now barely perceptible in her speech, and Dr. Mathys, whom she visited in April, encouraged her, and told her of really marvellous cures wrought by the famous old springs. [10]
I had buried my money in a safe place and there was nothing in the house except a loaf of bread and a few small coins, barely enough to last three days. [10]
When my poor mother had gone up the stairs on my grandfather's arm the strong soldier took me on his knee, and drawing his pistol from his holster bade me snap the lock, which I was barely able to do. [9]
Luigi listened a moment to Angelo's regular breathing, then said in a voice barely audible: "We were both born at the same time, but I am six months older than he is. [5]
She always offers me her lips, but to-day she turned away so that my mouth barely brushed her cheeks. [10]
She comes home late from a feast, spends barely six hours in disturbed slumber, and has hardly rested so long as it takes a pebble to fall to the ground from a crane's claw before we have to dress her again for another meal. [10]
Louis Trudel scarcely knew why he had listened, why he had opened the door and stood looking at the figure in the bed, barely definable in the semi-darkness of the room. [11]
Directly I could just barely hear a "me-yow! [5]
However, virtue is its own reward, so I was a barely perceptible trifle ahead in the contest. [5]
It was then I noticed that he had a cut across his temple, red and barely healed. [9]
Hadrian's interview with his wife had lasted barely a quarter of an hour, and it must have been anything rather than amiable, for his face was scarlet, while Sabina's lips were perfectly white, and her painted cheeks twitched with a restless movement. [10]
Yet he controlled himself, and asked with barely perceptible excitement, "Then I may inform his Majesty that you would be disposed to keep this secret? [10]
I shall tell him that he has barely escaped my vengeance, and will therefore certainly endeavor to stir up the power of Persia against Egypt; and shall entreat my future son-in-law to close his ears to this false accuser. [10]
Afore than once he barely escaped death. [10]
Next came a handsome young nobleman, who wanted to marry me when I was barely sixteen, but he was even more heavily in debt than my father, so he was sent home. [10]
Tom and I had barely sat ourselves down at a table in a corner, when in came Colonel Clark. [9]
After barely recovering from a severe illness, he had returned home pale and dispirited, and months elapsed ere he could again find genuine pleasure in his art. [10]
I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in,--as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. [7]
I had barely finished when this person spoke out with rapid utterance and feverish anxiety: "Oh, that was certainly remarkable, after a fashion, but you ought to have seen my chimney--you ought to have seen my chimney, sir! [5]
He was barely eighteen when the Lady Wendula sent him to his imperial master. [10]
Night is closing down; the rim of the sun barely shows above the sky-line of the hills. [5]
At sea one does not expect or look for it, but here, with fluttering leaves, shadowy forest aisles, house-tops barely visible, it is expected. [5]
Neither will I do more than barely allude to the unfortunate reference to the death of Lord Clarendon as connected with Mr. Motley's removal, so placidly disposed of by a sentence or two in the London "Times" of January 24, 1871. [6]
Hodder, from his corner, detected the effort, though it were barely discernible, and would have passed a scrutiny less rigid,--the first outward and visible sign of the lesion within. [9]
She was barely conscious that the Bailly had been addressing Philip, until he had stopped and Philip had risen to reply. [11]
Then there are clerks that have no clerkships, and are waiting, and waiting, and waiting for a vacancy--waiting patiently for a chance to help their country out--and while they, are waiting, they only get barely two thousand dollars a year for it. [5]
Allow me to barely whisper my suspicion that there were no such things in Kansas as "free-State Democrats"--that they were altogether mythical, good only to figure in newspapers and speeches in the free States. [7]
I could just barely see her. [5]
We can just barely rub through if we hit it exactly right. [5]
There was a barely perceptible suggestion of wonder in her serious eyes, but that was all; and she said, in her simple and placid way: "The case of France hopeless? [5]
I could just barely have stood it if they had made him a cornet; but a captain--think of it! [5]
At first he barely glanced at me, and nodded. [9]
I sat still, barely conscious of the rising and falling voices beyond the footlights, feeling only her living presence at my side. [9]
Mark Twain was back in London, lecturing again at the Queen's Concert Rooms, after barely a month's absence. [5]
The afternoon we arrived, we had barely got into our rooms at Brack's Oude Doelan, when a gray-headed commissionaire knocked at our door, and offered his services to show us the city. [4]
A woman answered, and I barely had time to throw myself against the door--she would have been in, in another second. [5]
The other made a barely perceptible inclination of the head and departed. [9]

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