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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I have brushed your coat, sir," said the old man, when he perceived Lovel was awake; "the callant brought it frae Fairport this morning, for that ye had on yesterday is scantly feasibly dry, though it's been a' night at the kitchen fire; and I hae cleaned your shoon.
But he had scantly granted him this and put it in his hand when, ere ever it was worth aught to him, the Sultan suddenly sold it to another of his own sect, and put our Hungarian out. Then came he to him and humbly put him in remembrance of his grant, spoken with his own mouth and signed with his own hand.
It had been his fate to be but scantly the latter and never at all the former our aunt Janet had not survived his birth; but on this day of our collective pilgrimage to Sing-Sing, where he was at a "military" school and clad in a fashion that represented to me the very panoply of war, he shone with a rare radiance of privation.
Then the old woman trembled, and scantly able to speak gan say, Behold my puissant and faithfull masters, you shall have meat and pottage enough by and by: here is first store of bread, wine plenty, filled in cleane rinsed pots, likewise here is hot water prepared to bathe you. Which when she had said, they put off all their garments and refreshed themselves by the fire.
You shall scantly go above him, I count." "I would I were but a king! Wouldn't I lead a brave life!" "That would not I be for all the riches in Christendom." "The which speech showeth thine unwisdom. Who so bravely apparelled as I, trow?" "Be your garments not warm enough, Matthew?" "Warm enough? certes! But they be only camoca and lamb's far, with never a silver button, let be gold."
For the Parisians, who always worship success and trample on misfortune, had, since the disaster at Worcester, shown themselves weary of receiving so many unlucky cavaliers, and were sometimes scantly civil. The stranger, as he saw the others come up, called out: 'Ha, Walwyn, is it you?
'There'll be no stopping him, Carling said, and he slipped to the rear. At this juncture, Armandine's mellow bell proclaimed her readiness. Victor rubbed the back of his head. Nataly asked him: 'Dear, is it that man? He nodded scantly: 'Expected, expected. I think we have our summons from Armandine. One moment poor soul! poor soul! Lady Carmine Sir Abraham Quatley. Will you lead?
Of the bombastic and grotesque paeans of triumph emitted by Lord Ellenborough, whose head had been turned by a success to which he had but scantly contributed, nothing need now be said, nor of the garish pageant with which he received the armies as they re-entered British territory at Ferozepore.
An indolent, dark-skinned race, turbaned and scantly clothed, move through the meadows, splash in the river, and rest beneath the palm-trees, which meet in graceful clusters here and there, as if striving to get beneath one another's shadow. Dirty villages swarm and babble on the river's brink. Were there leisure to listen, the diamond could readily relate the whole history of this famous valley.
French, in the fine old formula of those days, so much diffused, "was the language of the family"; but I think it must have appeared to these students in general a family of which the youngest members were but scantly kept in their place.
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