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• You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.
• My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
• A region scarce of prey.
• With a scarce well-lighted flame.
• And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you [...].
• Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.
• Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.