I looked at my yellow legal pad, which contained three scant pages of notes, and thought: how am I going to get anything out of this?
How Mabey has managed to convey so elegantly the strange coexistence of both these things – and so much else besides – in 90 scant pages is a mystery to me: a miracle on a par with a moonbow or sunshine breaking through thick fog.
In 1807, he read Mercy Otis Warren's three-volume "History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution," a twelve-hundred-page book that devoted a scant four pages to the character of one John Adams.
[Page C6.] New Economy's Lighter Fare The March 2002 issue of Red Herring, all 6.5 ounces of it, runs a scant 100 pages, and that includes public-service ads, along with 6 pages of advertising for the magazine itself.
The March issue, all 6.5 ounces of it, runs a scant 100 pages, and that includes public-service ads for the Girl Scouts and the United Way, along with 6 pages of the magazine advertising itself.
Written by the fashion journalist Francoise-Marie Santucci, the book is a scant 300 pages.
In a scant 14 pages, Davies has created a family thicket as dense as a dictionary.
What strikes you all over again in the scant 30 pages he devotes to this time is his self-pity.
Wheen's embarrassing misconstruction of Marx the thinker occupies a scant dozen pages, and his evocation of the final decade of the life is unexpectedly poignant.
This essay's scant six pages are so bracing, merely reading them makes you feel a little neater around the middle.
