A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this".
In the presidential debate last week a coherent thread could scarcely be found; the candidates thrust prefab speeches and wonky allusions into their ripostes.
Informative articles, such as Your Home, are now pushed to the back pages, and Q & A tucked away where it can scarcely be found.
"In reason", Jefferson says, "[Blacks are] much inferior [to Whites], as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid" ([N]: 139).
Yet five-star luxury outside Beijing, Shanghai and a couple of other cities is still scarcely to be found.
But the emotional engagement evident in, for example, the haranguing exchanges between Elijah and the idolatrous mob in the recording was scarcely to be found onstage except in individual numbers by vocal soloists.
Some metaphors apparently travel better than others, because the weight of that observation is scarcely to be found in the slapdash, make-it-up-as-you-go-along story of a sulky, insecure young woman who briefly loses her adoring Prince Charming to her bad-advice-giving best friend.
A letter written by Alcuin to the people of Kent in 797 laments that "scarcely anyone is found now of the old stock of kings".
Thomas Hardy, one of the finest of all memorialists of rural England, knew that there were scarcely any peasants to be found there at all, if by "peasant" one means a farmer who owns and works his own land.
Scarcely a man can be found familiar with the use of a gun; few have any skill or experience in horsemanship, and the whole breed are as nervously fearful of gunpowder and bloodshed as women or negroes.
