scarcely,

They had a twelve days 'voyage and a four days' journey before them; boxes to carry, custom houses to face, and stomachs to fill; yet the whole party could scarcely,

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

For people who, like myself, were reared in the Gladstonian tradition, it is a shock to be told by those who are in immediate contact with young men that for the rising generation he is only, or scarcely,

Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886