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• "It seems to me, Mr Needham," observed Tom, who had been taking a long, steady look at the chase, "they're heaving something overboard; what it is I can't make out,--scarcely a cargo of ballast but we shall soon discover when we get up to her, as we shall, I hope, before long Needham took another steady look. —  The Three Commanders
• We could scarcely, therefore, expect to survive till we should reach even the nearest point. —  The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.
• That a few defaced, dismantled, moss-grown or sand-choked fragments of these mighty buildings would one day be the only trace, the sole memorial of a rule and of nations that would then have past away forever, even into nothingness and oblivion, scarcely was anticipated by the haughty conquerors who filled those halls with their despotic presence, and entered those consecrated gates in the pomp of triumph to render thanks for bloody victories and warlike exploits which elated their souls in pride till they felt themselves half divine. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• But scarcely is the female that has come up out of the water established with seal-ox No. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• The objections he offered, and the tone in which they were urged, induced a practical dissolution of the society--scarcely compatible with regular government For the last time in these colonies application was made by the settlers for a law to restrict the amount of usury. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I

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