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Much has been said about the reception of Pocahontas in London, but the contemporary notices of her are scant. [4]

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Brigond was considering whether it were better, with his scant chart, to attempt the bay, or to take small boats and make for the shore. [11]
Her scant hair was now pure white, her dress seemed to have fallen away from her wasted neck, which was like a trefoil column. [9]
When he had urged his case upon the basis of fresh information, he was drily told that the security was too scant, even for a king. [11]
Climbing out of the ravine was, in most places, simply impossible; and I began to look with interest for a slide, where bushes rooted in the scant earth would enable me to scale the precipice. [4]
As soon as the pathway widens, we'll run you down with scant ceremony, and may the gods deprive me of a day of life for each one I spare! [10]
Then one of the doors was pushed open a scant four inches, a scarlet madras handkerchief appeared in the crack above a yellow face. [9]
To be sure, the ballroom was little frequented, only an adventurous couple now and then gliding over the floor, and affording scant amusement to the throng gathered on the piazza and about the open windows. [4]
In their scant shadow, or in the shelter of an overhanging ledge of rock, Arabs offered us draughts of cool water, and oranges. [11]
The face was scant, perchance from lack of food, the nose large, with a curved rim, and the eyes blue gray. [9]
No mercy and scant shrift would be shown him. [11]
Only the Cure's scant news were authentic, however, and Charley never saw the good priest but he had a secret hope of hearing him say that Rosalie was coming back. [11]
He had scant, sandy-grey whiskers, a tightly closed and smooth-shaven upper lip, a nose with-a decided ridge, and rather small but penetrating eyes in which the blue pigment had been used sparingly. [9]
Hodder did not relish half truths; and he felt that, however scant his intercourse in the future might be with Alison Parr, he would have liked to have kept it on that basis of frankness in which it had begun. [9]
On the Sorrentine promontory, and on the island of Capri, the hardy husbandman and fisherman draws his subsistence from the sea and from a scant patch of ground. [4]
Pierre's wanderings took place in a period when civilization had made but scant marks upon the broad bosom of the prairie land, and towns and villages were few and far scattered. [11]
This mental and physical strain for sixteen consecutive hours, with scant sleep, so demoralized him that he was obliged once in two or three months to hire a substitute and go away to sleep. [4]
Two foot large, on the stabboard, two and a half scant on the labboard! [5]
No greater proof of this can be needed than the effort to give princely entertainments in un-princely houses, where opposing streams of guests fight for progress in scant passages and on narrow stairways, and pack themselves in stifling rooms. [4]
But he was never a good runner, being apt to find himself scant o' breath, like Hamlet, after violent exercise. [6]
It appears by Mr. Wingfield's statement that the supply left with the colony was very scant, a store that would only last thirteen weeks and a half, and prudence in the distribution of it, in the uncertainty of Newport's return, was a necessity. [4]
A scant flue miles of water lay between us and her, and if they really meant business back there, and they gave every sign of it, we had about an hour and a half to get rid of the Celebrity. [9]
Mr. Claude told me that indeed a man had arrived that morning from the North, a spare person with a hooked nose and scant hair, in a brown greatcoat with a torn cape. [9]
She would be lingering in the drawing-room in her best bib and tucker, or strolling in the garden as Dr. Courtenay passed, and I got but scant attention indeed. [9]
Low, unpretentious, the latticed shutters of its two windows giving it but a scant air of privacy,--indeed, they were scarred by the raps of careless passers-by on the sidewalk. [9]
I was shoved into a dark and narrow cell in a dungeon, with some scant remnants for dinner, some moldy straw for a bed, and no end of rats for company. [5]
He lived with his mother in a little cabin up among the hills, that had about it scant patches of potatoes and corn and beans, a garden fenced in by stumproots, as ill-cared for as the shanty. [4]
More than once he cleared his throat to commence, while Mr. Drew pulled his scant clothing closer about him, his whiskers playing in the breeze. [9]
In a very few years nothing but a scant remnant remained alive. [5]
That gives six feet scant in the head of Murderer's Chute. [5]
And although Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke had been in town but a scant twenty-four hours, it seemed as if he knew more of its inhabitants than both of us put together. [9]
Yet the young farmers who hovered near her now, buying a glass of cider or a mogue of soup, received but scant notice. [11]
We slept till far into the afternoon, and then got up hungry enough to make cotter fare quite palatable to the king, the more particularly as it was scant in quantity. [5]
There was nothing else in his outfit; he had grown used to a scant fire. [13]
Evelyn, indeed, seemed, at the distance of Newport, more unattainable than ever, and the scant news he had of the drama enacted there was a perpetual notice to him of the social gulf that lay between them. [4]
Many folks are astir, and all in scant attire and full of eager thirst for tidings. [10]
Taken separately, and as they were spoken, his words might not be very significant, but pieced together, arranged, and interpreted through even scant knowledge of circumstances, they were sufficient to give me a key to difficulties which, afterwards, were to cause much distress. [11]
The coat was an old khaki jacket of a Gippy soldier, and, being scant of buttons, doubtful linen showed beneath. [11]
We groped around a while on our hands and knees, but we could not find it; so we sat down in the mud and the wet scant grass to wait. [5]
The canyon was a hundred rods wide, its yellow walls were perpendicular; it had abundant sage and a scant growth of oak and pinon. [13]

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