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Updated: June 17, 2025
When Marcella saw her, she knew that the unhappy woman had already wept so much in the hours since her husband came back to her that she could weep no more. The two little girls in the scantiest of clothing, half-fastened, sat on the floor beside her, shivering and begrimed watching her.
The men in the Life Saving Service continually and in the most matter of fact way do deeds such as make Americans proud of their country. They have no political influence, and they live in such remote places that the really heroic services they continually render receive the scantiest recognition from the public.
I wish I could tell how the people live then in their beautiful, cool houses, but I do not know, and I do not know how they live at any season except from the scantiest hearsay. The women remain at home except when they go to church or to drive in the Delicias that is to say, the women of society, of the nobility.
Nor did the contents, taken out by the man-servant and arranged in drawers by the nurse. His toilet paraphernalia was of the simplest and scantiest. His stock of frayed linen and darned underclothes made rather a poor little heap on the chair.
Martha might some day let her stand in the housemaid's closet, to behold her idol issue forth in the full glory of an evening dress a thing Charlotte had read of, but never seen anything nearer to it than Miss Walby coming to tea, and her own Miss Clara in the scantiest of all white muslins. But Mrs. Martha was in an unexampled state of vixenish crossness, and snapped venomously at mild Mrs.
In this way, we possess but the scantiest information about the journeys which occupied a great part of his time during the last few years of his life.
The country school-district, sparsely settled and chary of its taxes, is apt to obey the law in the scantiest way possible.
The story of his miraculous birth, and the expectations it had aroused, had almost died out of the memory of the countryside. For many years John had been living in the caves that indent the limestone rocks of the desolate wilderness which extends from Hebron to the western shores of the Dead Sea. By the use of the scantiest fare, and roughest garb, he had brought his body under complete mastery.
At some distance for the heat was still intense were grouped the slouching, spiritless figures of the mountaineers. On the porches of the houses, plainly visible in the unwonted red glow, were knots of women and children ever and anon a brat in the scantiest of raiment ran nimbly in and out.
It is pleasant, sometimes, to meet with people like these, who, clothed in the scantiest garments, and with only a crust upon their tables, at the least touch of suggestion, mount into a region of splendor. Their poverty all fades away; the bare walls, the tokens of stern want, the dusty world, are all transfigured with infinite possibilities.
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