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I went thru a dozen women in that time and they were scarce out there where that cut was
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Money was scarce but not for the young Bimal
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At least he wouldn’t miss this in the dark, even though lanterns were scarce in the yard
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Like the rest of club land, the boys are staring at Leona and Bex, putting together the essential facts; it's time to make themselves scarce
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Davie is aware of time, aware of the slow dripping down of fragile existence, aware of the need to make himself scarce, but he is fascinated by this montage, by this still life
6.
I found out that parts for the Boeing 777 are particularly scarce at present, making this a plausible motive
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He explained that there were scarce traces of the Energy Age in Lumpral, and the whole Trenst basin had been peopled by hunter-gatherer tribes who watched the Energy Age go by while peeking from under the forest canopy
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Humans were scarce among them – dwarves even scarcer
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Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment
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Both the pecuniary income and expense of such families have increased considerably since that time through the greater part of the kingdom, in some places more, and in some less, though perhaps scarce anywhere so much as some exaggerated accounts of the present wages of labour have lately represented them to the public
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High wages of labour and high profits of stock, however, are things, perhaps, which scarce ever go together, except in the peculiar circumstances of new colonies
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In a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals, enjoy a good deal of security, the poor, or the owners of small capitals, enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit
13.
But there is scarce any common trade in which a small stock yields so
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That the chance of loss is frequently undervalued, and scarce ever valued more than it is
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have scarce any chance of preferment, they figure to themselves, in their youthful fancies, a
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remain in the condition of common sailors, they receive scarce any other recompence but the
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silk-weavers in London had scarce been incorporated a year, when they enacted a bye-law,
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shoemakers in London who earn forty pounds a-year, and there is scarce an industrious
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But this is a security which scarce any man
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There is scarce a poor man in England, of forty years of age, 1 will venture to say,
21.
This, no doubt, may be partly the case upon some occasions ; for it can scarce ever be more than partly the case
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It affords a good rent ; and the landlord sometimes finds that he can scarce employ his best lands more advantageously than in growing barren timber, of which the greatness of the profit often compensates the lateness of the returns
23.
If the countries are near, the difference will be smaller, and may sometimes be scarce perceptible ; because in this case the transportation will be easy
24.
Among savages, the poorest of all nations, they are scarce of any value
25.
Their whole commerce was carried on by barter, and there was accordingly scarce any division of labour among them
26.
The Spanish armies, though they scarce ever exceeded five hundred men, and frequently did not amount to half that number, found almost everywhere great difficulty in procuring subsistence
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The difference in their accounts of the populousness of several other principal towns of Chili and Peru is nearly the same ; and as there seems to be no reason to doubt of the good information of either, it marks an increase which is scarce inferior to that of the English colonies
28.
There is scarce any commodity which brings a better price there; or which, in proportion to the quantity of labour and commodities which it costs in Europe
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That, notwithstanding this reduction, the value of silver has, during the course of the present century, begun to rise somewhat in the European market, the facts and arguments which have been alleged above, dispose me to believe, or more properly to suspect and conjecture; for the best opinion which I can form upon this subject, scarce, perhaps, deserves the name of belief
30.
The first comprehends those which it is scarce in the power of human industry to multiply at all
31.
Had the Scotch cattle been always confined to the market of Scotland, in a country in which the quantity of land, which can be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle, is so great in proportion to what can be applied to other purposes, it is scarce possible, perhaps, that their price could ever have risen so high as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them
32.
In England, the price of cattle, it has already been observed, seems, in the neighbourhood of London, to have got to this height about the beginning of the last century; but it was much later, probably, before it got through the greater part of the remoter counties, in some of which, perhaps, it may scarce yet have got to it
33.
Till the price of cattle, indeed, has got to this height, it seems scarce possible that the greater part, even of those lands which are capable of the highest cultivation, can be completely cultivated
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The rest will, the greater part of them, be allowed to lie waste, producing scarce any thing but some miserable pasture, just sufficient to keep alive a few straggling, half-starved cattle; the farm, though much overstocked in proportion to what would be necessary for its complete cultivation, being very frequently overstocked in proportion to its actual produce
35.
Without some increase of stock, there can be scarce any improvement of land, but there can be no considerable increase of stock, but in consequence of a considerable improvement of land ; because otherwise the land could not maintain it
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They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third
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These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all ; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little
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Almost all that he gets is pure gain, and their price can scarce be so low as to discourage him from feeding this number
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The feeding of poultry seems scarce yet to be generally considered as a matter of so much importance in England
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In the warm season, when it is most abundant, it will scarce keep four-and-twenty hours
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Part of all these is reserved for the use of his own family; the rest goes to market, in order to find the best price which is to be had, and which can scarce be so low is to discourage him from sending thither whatever is over and above the use of his own family
42.
If it is very low indeed, he will be likely to manage his dairy in a very slovenly and dirty manner, and will scarce, perhaps, think it worth while to have a particular room or building on purpose for it, but will suffer the business to be carried on amidst the smoke, filth, and nastiness of his own kitchen, as was the case of almost all the farmers' dairies in Scotland thirty or forty years ago, and as is the case of many of them still
43.
The increase of the quantity of gold and silver in Europe, and the increase of its manufactures and agriculture, are two events which, though they have happened nearly about the same time, yet have arisen from very different causes, and have scarce any natural connection with one another
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so that, without any further care or attention, those coffers are likely to be always equally or very near equally full, and scarce ever to require any extraordinary expense to replenish them
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were scarce and the rent was coming due
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With regard to the latter, it seems to have made scarce any distinction between real and circulating bills, but to have discounted all equally
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Corn is, upon most occasions, fully as cheap in England as in France, though there is a great deal of paper money in England, and scarce any in France
48.
, To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free
49.
In the whole interval which separates those two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instance, in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement of any kind
50.
In some ancient cities, which either have been long stationary, or have gone somewhat to decay, you will sometimes scarce find a single house which could have been built for its present inhabitants
51.
Even they scarce ever borrow merely to spend
52.
The course of human prosperity, indeed, seems scarce ever to have been of so long continuance as to unable any great country to acquire capital sufficient for all those three purposes; unless, perhaps, we give credit to the wonderful accounts of the wealth and cultivation of China, of those of ancient Egypt, and of the ancient state of Indostan
53.
Yeah, the rural scene, surrounded by vast open spaces, dirt or gravel roads, scarce traffic (mostly pickups and tractors), and almost no noise at all anywhere you turned, at least of the kind that was to be found in my home of the other nine months
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The Arabian histories seem to be all full of genealogies; and there is a history written by a Tartar Khan, which has been translated into several European languages, and which contains scarce any thing else; a proof that ancient families are very common among those nations
55.
Money, like wine, must always be scarce with those who have neither wherewithal to buy it, nor credit to borrow it
56.
The transportation of commodities, when properly suited to the market, is always attended with a considerable profit; whereas that of gold and silver is scarce ever attended with any
57.
The whole gold and silver annually imported into both Spain and Portugal, according to the best accounts, does not commonly much exceed £6,000,000 sterling, which, in some years, would scarce have paid four months expense of the late war
58.
A country which carried on foreign trade merely upon this account, could scarce have occasion to freight a ship in a century
59.
The number of vagrants was scarce anywhere sensibly increased by it ; even the wages of labour were not reduced by it in any occupation, so far as I have been able to learn, except in that of seamen in the merchant service
60.
That part of his capital which had usually been employed in purchasing materials, and in paying his workmen, might, without much difficulty, perhaps, find another employment ; but that part of it which was fixed in workhouses, and in the instruments of trade, could scarce be disposed of without considerable loss
61.
A gentleman drunk with ale has scarce ever been seen among us
62.
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy : but the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit, of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind, though it cannot, perhaps, be corrected, may very easily be prevented from disturbing the tranquillity of anybody but themselves
63.
The ancient Egyptians, it is said, neglected foreign commerce, and the modem Chinese, it is known, hold it in the utmost contempt, and scarce deign to afford it the decent protection of the laws
64.
In spite of all these encouragements, almost all those different companies, both great and small, lost either the whole or the greater part of their capitals; scarce a vestige now remains of any of them, and the white-herring fishery is now entirely, or almost entirely, carried on by private adventurers
65.
But it is scarce possible, even by the
66.
Even in such countries, however, the drought is, perhaps, scarce ever so universal as necessarily to occasion a famine, if the government would allow a free trade
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the quarter, besides, though it may be considered as a very high price, yet, in years of scarcity, it is a price which frequently takes place immediately after harvest, when scarce any part of the new crop can be sold off, and when it is impossible even for ignorance to suppose that any part of it can be so engrossed as to hurt the people
68.
In such great countries as France or England, it scarce ever can
69.
This diminution, however, can scarce amount to any positive loss, but only to a lessening of the gain which it might otherwise make
70.
Had the king of Portugal submitted to those ignominious terms which his brother-in-law the king of Spain proposed to him, Britain would have been freed from a much greater inconveniency than the loss of the Portugal trade, the burden of supporting a very weak ally, so unprovided of every thing for his own defence, that the whole power of England, had it been directed to that single purpose, could scarce, perhaps, have defended him for another campaign
71.
The citizens, therefore, who had no land, had scarce any other means of subsistence but the bounties of the candidates at the annual elections
72.
He has no rent, and scarce any taxes, to pay
73.
Towards the end of the fifteenth, and during the greater part of the sixteenth century, Spain and Portugal were the two great naval powers upon the ocean ; for though the commerce of Venice extended to every part of Europe, its fleet had scarce ever sailed beyond the Mediterranean
74.
The plenty and cheapness of good land are such powerful causes of prosperity, that the very worst government is scarce capable of checking altogether the efficacy of their operation
75.
The government of Spain contributed scarce any thing to any of them
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Its superiority, perhaps, would scarce appear greater in the present times, at least if the Dutch navy were to bear the same proportion to the Dutch commerce now which it did then
77.
In her present condition, Great Britain resembles one of those unwholesome bodies in which some of the vital parts are overgrown, and which, upon that account, are liable to many dangerous disorders, scarce incident to those in which all the parts are more properly proportioned
78.
Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal ? Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? Such has been the tone of mercantile expense in those two trading cities, that those exorbitant profits, far from augmenting the general capital of the country, seem scarce to have been sufficient to keep up the capitals upon which they were made
79.
The most visionary enthusiasts would scarce be capable of proposing such a measure, with any serious hopes at least of its ever being adopted
80.
The persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importance which, perhaps, the greatest subjects in Europe scarce feel
81.
In such circumstances, to prohibit the servants of the company from trading upon their own account, can have scarce any other effect than to enable its superior servants, under pretence of executing their master's order, to oppress such of the inferior ones as have had the misfortune to fall under their displeasure
82.
It is scarce possible to devise a tax which could produce any considerable revenue to the sovereign, and at the same time occasion so little inconveniency to anybody
83.
Even though he couldn’t see the river, he thought about how that water runs wild and free, abundant, while in most of the world it is scarce and people are dying from lack of it
84.
That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere
85.
A more extensive foreign trade, however, which to this great home market added the foreign market of all the rest of the world, especially if any considerable part of this trade was carried on in Chinese ships, could scarce fail to increase very much the manufactures of China, and to improve very much the productive powers of its manufacturing industry
86.
As long as nothing stops their progress, as long as they can go on from one district, of which they have consumed the forage, to another, which is yet entire; there seems to be scarce any limit to the number who can march on together
87.
In order to render them less formidable, according to some authors, Dioclesian, according to others, Constantine, first withdrew them from the frontier, where they had always before been encamped in great bodies, generally of two or three legions each, and dispersed them in small bodies through the different provincial towns, from whence they were scarce ever removed, but when it became necessary to repel an invasion
88.
Among nations of hunters, as there is scarce any property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days labour ; so there is seldom any established magistrate, or any regular administration of justice
89.
Though the produce of his estate may be sufficient to maintain, and may, perhaps, actually maintain, more than a thousand people, yet, as those people pay for every thing which they get from him, as he gives scarce any thing to any body but in exchange for an equivalent, there is scarce anybody who considers himself as entirely dependent upon him, and his authority extends only over a few menial servants
90.
Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion
91.
This scheme of making the administration of justice subservient to the purposes of revenue, could scarce fail to be productive of several very gross abuses
92.
“They"re here because food could became scarce
93.
During the continuance of this state of things, therefore, the corruption of justice, naturally resulting from the arbitrary and uncertain nature of those presents, scarce admitted of any effectual remedy
94.
When the judicial is united to the executive power, it is scarce possible that justice should not frequently be sacrificed to what is vulgarly called politics
95.
It seems scarce possible to invent a more equitable way of maintaining such works
96.
Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression
97.
The maintenance of a public minister, requiring scarce any attention, and but a moderate and limited expense, is a business much more suitable both to the temper and abilities of a regulated company
98.
The car, in any case, would make itself scarce in whatever area it thought to be inconspicuous
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than that it should come into the hands of a set of people with whom those resolutions could scarce fail to set them in some measure at variance
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circumstances, is a species of warfare, of which the operations are continually changing, and which can scarce ever be conducted successfully, without such an unremitting exertion of vigilance and attention as cannot long be expected from the directors of a joint-stock company