All 9 Uses of
scarcity
in
The Turn of the Screw
- Why, he's scarce ten years old."†
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- Scarce anything in the whole history seems to me so odd as this fact that my real beginning of fear was one, as I may say, with the instinct of sparing my companion.†
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- I scarce know how to put my story into words...
Chpt All *scarce = hardly (by a small margin)
- "Two hours ago, in the garden"—I could scarce articulate—"Flora SAW!"†
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- I should not have been prompted, by stress of need, by desperation of mind—I scarce know what to call it—to invoke such further aid to intelligence as might spring from pushing my colleague fairly to the wall.†
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- Until you came out, that way, this morning, you had, since the first hour I saw you, scarce even made a reference to anything in your previous life.†
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- I saw my colleague scarce knew how to put it.†
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- If so much had sprung to the surface, I scarce put it too strongly in saying that what had perhaps sprung highest was the absurdity of our prolonging the fiction that I had anything more to teach him.†
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- To mark, for the house, the high state I cultivated I decreed that my meals with the boy should be served, as we called it, downstairs; so that I had been awaiting him in the ponderous pomp of the room outside of the window of which I had had from Mrs. Grose, that first scared Sunday, my flash of something it would scarce have done to call light.†
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Definition:
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(scarcity) shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)