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1. The girl yelled, the man screamed, the bull dropped and turned his head, twisting his horn out of the way of the man’s neck scant milliseconds before disaster
2. Those in authority realised that they had scant days to make their
3. unmoving on that table those few scant days ago
4. It only took scant seconds to
5. I realize I have only a background of the most routine education, parents who have granted me my almost every wish, and scant talent or skill for actual life in the real world
6. Nothing ever seemed to scare him, though he had less than two years on my scant twelve
7. You gave them scant attention
8. Sebastian jumped back into consciousness a few scant hours later when a cold hand touched his arm, which was hanging off of the side of his bed
9. Since there were no children, there was scant delay
10. Amaranthe studied the scant offerings of the charging platform
11. I believe that many of us are losing sight of the bigger picture by focusing our attention exclusively on inanimate objects while paying scant attention to the causal factors that have contributed to higher crime rates in our nation as compared, for example, with other industrialized nations that enforce stricter gun-control laws
12. The province’s thriving tourism industry was all but eliminated in the scant forty-five seconds it took the Earth to shake off the strain along the fault
13. A shiver raced up Truman’s spine as the knife menaced scant inches from her flesh
14. The scant “clues” that we have inherited don’t allow us the pleasure of positive confirmation, but all of history succeeding that time seems to positively affirm that the “traditionalists” went on to eventual extinction, or at least their ideas did, as Man’s next best guess expanded toward the more powerful forces seen within climatic disturbances
15. Why would he have felt the need to include this advisory within his writings? He was born a scant thirty years after the Council of Nicaea had canonized the works chosen from the many that purported to truthfully convey the Christian message
16. Fourth; Avoidance of History: What is meant here is that the Leftist pays scant attention to history as a precursor of the future
17. In all Mind testing we dwell on Intelligent Quotient (IQ) and pay scant attention to the other major factor, common sense
18. 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11
19. Indeed, we had seen scant evidence of their existence along the way
20. fail them, and all their water is scant, and they have determined to lay hands on their cattle, and purposed to consume all those things,
21. Palin and the inept conduct of the Republican campaign diverted what scant attention there was away from the true nature of Obama’s background and makeup
22. under the age of twenty, huddled together in the scant warmth of
23. He spoke little that evening, alternating between grief for his son and petulance at the scant attention Alilia paid him
24. “In the scant thirty thousand years since the gods withdrew from Kellaran, this world has changed more than it had in the previous two hundred million years
25. But she found scant choices in either and shyly suggested that our family money might better be spent at an institution that offered the quality of business and communication courses she had wanted to take at Chapel Hill
26. The discussion was earnest, and it continued with scant interruption throughout the luncheon and the door-prizes and the dancing
27. nothing but scant money for some potatoes and meat
28. the scant pile of materials
29. Sari seems to have come under the same spell as I did with the old man, Moshe thought as he watched them depart, remembering again what scant urging she had needed to agree to his well rehearsed proposal that she go where her safety would ensure his peace of mind as he played out the part that he was called to
30. 11 And now that my Lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose even death is now fallen on them and their sin has overtaken them with which they will provoke their God to anger whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done: 12 For their victuals fail them and all their water is scant and they have determined to lay hands on their cattle and purposed to consume all those things that God has forbidden them to eat by his laws: 13 And are resolved to spend the firstfruits of the the tenths of wine and oil which they had sanctified and reserved for the priests that serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God; the which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands
31. Now recalling what he'd taken scant notice of before, he hazarded a guess that
32. Had Lansdale been in the palace with Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem before the coup that killed Diem in 1963, scant weeks before Jack Kennedy himself was assassinated, things might have been different
33. The rocks gave scant protection and he shifted slightly to shield the body of his friend
34. They dressed in crowded, poorly ventilated dressing rooms under the stage with scant assistance
35. After exploring the scant delights of Luxor town I wandered along a lengthy avenue of sphinxes to the impressive Luxor Temple, then on through dusty lanes until another, even vaster temple reared above the palms
36. A scarlet light could scant be seen through the layers of waveglass that constricted the hydra
37. He pokes at the scant remains of the carcass of a dead hare with his long stick
38. It is a bit scant in places
39. Where there was previously scant in the way of records there were now targeted and scheduled visits with site visit reports, performance indicators and action trigger parameters
40. She was up to her eyes in notes from parish meeting minutes that had to be unravelled before the five pm deadline, so she gave it scant attention
41. “It won’t,” said Bill showing scant concern
42. He had scant regard for money and spent it as easily as he got it
43. "Nonsense!" Vateesa had scant respect for the ways of what she deemed a false cult
44. She did not put in; there was scant profit in trade with the sons of Shem
45. Returning scant minutes later with an orderly, they helped me up, put slippers on my feet and transferred me to the chair
46. 'The light is sufficient,' grunted Conan, seating himself with scant ceremony, and drawing his poniard
47. Gave them no more than scant recognition that those days had been more precious than I knew
48. When he told how Mitra aided certain kings to overcome their enemies, they paid scant heed to the miracles of Mitra, but they hung on the description of battle-lines, mounted knights, and maneuvers of archers and spearmen
49. Information was pitifully scant
50. It only took seconds for him to reach the edge of the lagoon and scant seconds more to wade out and silently breaststroke towards the shadowy center of the confluence