During this time, the IWW member became synonymous with the hobo riding the rails ; migratory farmworkers could scarcely afford any other means of transportation to get to the next jobsite.

The environment where dolphins live makes experiments much more expensive and complicated than for many other species ; additionally, the fact that cetaceans can emit and hear sounds ( which are believed to be their main means of communication ) in a range of frequencies much wider than that of humans means that sophisticated equipment, which was scarcely available in the past, is needed to record and analyse them.

This means that, at the scarcely absorbed continuum of wavelengths ( 8 to 14 µm ), the radiation emitted, by the earth's surface into a dry atmosphere, and by the cloud tops, mostly passes unabsorbed through the atmosphere, and is emitted directly to space ; there is also partial window transmission in far infrared spectral lines between about 16 and 28 µm.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

The Dolley Madison House, Walton concluded, was scarcely worth preserving.

But aside from everything else, it would scarcely be pleasant to have dealings with one who was nominally an underling and actually held -- you could say -- the whip hand.

At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.

The events which marked the life of the artist during the first fifteen years of the period in which he was engaged on the above-mentioned works scarcely merit notice.

The Amir had scarcely suppressed it by winning a desperate battle when Abdur Rahman's reappearance in the north was a signal for a mutiny of the troops stationed in those parts and a gathering of armed bands to his standard.

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

In the forelimb, the upper and lower series of carpal ( finger ) bones scarcely alternated, but in the hind foot, the astragalus overlapped the cuboid, while the fibula, which was quite distinct from the tibia ( as was the radius from the ulna in the forelimb ), articulated with both astragalus and calcaneum.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

* In the first Exodus, water was provided by God, but scarcely.

Thus, under Elizabeth, a more permanent enforcement of the Reformed religion was undertaken, and the 1552 book was republished in 1559, scarcely altered.

" For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother were sent to live with their father, whom the young boy scarcely knew.

However, much of later liberal thought was absent in Locke's writings or scarcely mentioned, and his writings have been subject to various interpretations.

British relations with France had scarcely improved since 1815. As prime minister, the Earl of Aberdeen was one of these officials, who feared France and Louis Bonaparte.

In 1931 he admitted: " In youth I scarcely did any letter-writing — thanking anybody for a present was so much of an ordeal that I would rather have written a two hundred fifty-line pastoral or a twenty-page treatise on the rings of Saturn.

But Steinschneider will not admit the possibility of this conjecture, while Renan scarcely strengthens it by regarding " Andreas " as a possible northern corruption of " En Duran ," which, he says, may have been the Provençal surname of Anatoli, since Anatoli, in reality, was but the name of his great-grandfather.

In July 1520, when scarcely four and a half years old, she entertained a visiting French delegation with a performance on the virginals ( a type of harpsichord ).

At Brown, he became interested in the computational analysis of human language, though at the time there were scarcely any tools for this type of research.

At the time, Wisden said of him: " He blossomed forth as an almost completely equipped batsman of the forcing type and was probably the best exponent — Bradman himself scarcely excluded — of the art of hitting the ball tremendously hard and safely.

Upon his return to Frankfurt, events prevented his concentrating upon the book on aesthetics he wished to write: " Valid student claims and dubious actions ," he wrote to Marcuse, " are all so mixed up together that all productive work and even sensible thought are scarcely possibly any more.

" The Crimson defended it, " That political theories should prevent a Harvard student from enjoying an opportunity for research in one of the world's greatest cultural centers is most unfortunate and scarcely in line with the liberal traditions of which Harvard is pardonably proud.

The solo performance was scarcely more than that of a clever student who has worked hard to memorize the concerto but is still liable to be thrown off his stroke, even to the point of forgetting his notes occasionally.

One who could be linked to anti-Semitism only by overcoming his objections is scarcely a good specimen of the Jew-baiter throughout the ages.

By chance he encountered a copy of " Captain Claridge's work on the ' Water Cure ,' as practised by Priessnitz, at Graefenberg ", and " making allowances for certain exaggerations therein ", pondered the option of travelling to Graefenberg, but preferred to find something closer to home, with access to his own doctors in case of failure: " I who scarcely lived through a day without leech or potion!

" The language of Merz now finds common acceptance and today there is scarcely an artist working with materials other than paint who does not refer to Schwitters in some way.

who scarcely dar ' st lift up thine eyes --

Private libraries appeared during the late republic: Seneca inveighed against libraries fitted out for show by illiterate owners who scarcely read their titles in the course of a lifetime, but displayed the scrolls in bookcases ( armaria ) of citrus wood inlaid with ivory that ran right to the ceiling: " by now, like bathrooms and hot water, a library is got up as standard equipment for a fine house ( domus ).

Lindberg and Numbers write: " There was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference ".

“ That Sergius, who remained Pope throughout the storms of seven years, was at least a man of energy must be admitted, although apostolic virtues are scarcely to be looked for in a character such as his .”

Modern scholars regard this claim as mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: " there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.

In 1845, settler Charles Griffiths sought to justify this, writing ; " The question comes to this ; which has the better right – the savage, born in a country, which he runs over but can scarcely be said to occupy ... or the civilized man, who comes to introduce into this ... unproductive country, the industry which supports life.

There was scarcely any lessening of admiration for the old king who had overseen the destiny of Saxony for more than half a century.

There the unclean spirits, who beheld them as they wandered through the wilderness, bestowed their embraces upon them and begat this savage race, which dwelt at first in the swamps, a stunted, foul and puny tribe, scarcely human, and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance to human speech.

However, the cavalry officers could not be reconciled to the orders of a foreigner who could scarcely speak English and whose ideas of discipline and tactics differed widely from those to which they had been accustomed.

Xerxes II, who reigned for a very short time, could scarcely have obtained so splendid a monument, and still less could the usurper Sogdianus ( Secydianus ).

He was constantly attended by Dr. Gunst, who however, could scarcely impress his patient with a sense of the very serious nature of his disease, which he regarded somewhat lightly.

The controversy had to do with the fact that permission to excavate Tiwanaku, being such an important site, is only provided to certified professional archaeologists and rarely to independent Bolivian scholars who scarcely can present proof of funding to carry on archaeological research.

" I had written at length about the life of Harry Crosby, who I scarcely know ," he wrote, " in order to avoid discussing the more recent death of Hart Crane, whom I know so well that I couldn't bear to write about him.

As the chancellor could scarcely be judge in her own case, the matter was referred to the lord deputy and council, who decided, upon the evidence of a single witness, who testified to words spoken nearly twenty years before, that Loftus must settle upon Sir Robert Loftus and the children by Eleanor Rushe his house at Monasterevan, co. Kildare, furnished, and £ 1, 200 a year in land.

In Surat Al-Kahf (" The Cave ", 18: 83 – 98 ) of the Qur ' an, a pious warrior king called Dhul-Qarnayn journeys to the place between the East and the West, and in the place between the two mountains he finds people who scarcely understood a word " 18: 94 They said: " O Dhul-Qarnain!

West is said to have " exclaimed with a warmth and enthusiasm of which those who knew him best could scarcely believe him capable, ' What delicious coloring worthy of Titian himself!

Recent Holliday biographer Gary L. Roberts, however, considers it unlikely that Holliday, who had scarcely left his bed for two months, would have been able to speak coherently, if at all, on the day he died.