Barely

Examples

• He had barely got back, before you got back too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You've barely time to catch the five-forty. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Though she said she never considered me young, I am barely thirty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Never before have men stood so barely face to face with the community of their interests and their common destiny. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The poles were two hundred feet apart and could barely hold up a wash-line. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A woman answered, and I barely had time to throw myself against the door--she would have been in, in another second. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Many inventors have barely escaped with their lives from the fury of mobs who thought the inventor would take their living from them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Barely, said Gurth, though the sum demanded was more reasonable than he expected, and it will leave my master nigh penniless. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I had then barely time to get my great-coat, lock up the chambers, and make for the coach-office by the short by-ways. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was barely half-past seven when I went downstairs, but I found them both at the breakfast-table waiting for me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sir William Siemens had said that the power of all the coal raised in the world would barely represent the power of Niagara. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The women made way for them, but barely sufficient, as if grudging to yield ground. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If a gentle breeze is blowing, a barely perceptible opening of a window will give the needed amount, even if there are no additional drafts of fresh air into the room through cracks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There is barely room between Jos and Miss Sharp, who are on the front seat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Nothing but the interest of her twenty thousand pounds--barely enough to pay our daily expenses. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This lowest price is that which barely replaces, with a moderate profit, the stock which must be employed in bringing the commodity thither. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This gentleman looked barely thirty. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His face showed no sign of excitement, though an assistant, standing near him, could barely keep still. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What if six, continued Wamba, and we as we now are, barely two--would you not remember Locksley's horn? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Something must be done with Maggy too, who at present is--ha--barely respectable, barely respectable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The same tree, Anselmo said so low Jordan could barely hear him and he knew he was speaking without moving his lips as he had spoken that first day. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But it is barely possible that an accident may happen. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Edison, barely twenty-one years old, was a keen observer of the stirring events around him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This notion had barely struck me--when who should appear at the end of the shrubbery walk but Rosanna Spearman in her own proper person! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I should not, perhaps, have to make the sacrifice long, as it wanted now barely three months to his departure. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We had barely taken our seats when he said to Mr. Jarndyce quite triumphantly, You would hardly suppose that I am Mrs. Bayham Badger's third! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• One by one, however, the ships managed to dip below the crests of the outlying hills until only one barely moving craft was in sight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At the time Edison was born, in 1847, telegraphy, upon which he was to leave so indelible an imprint, had barely struggled into acceptance by the public. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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