There are scarcely any descriptions or reactions preserved from the heyday of the machine play in the 1670s 1690s, although a general idea of its technology can be gathered from the better-documented French and Italian opera scenery which inspired Thomas Betterton at Dorset Garden Theatre.
It seems that the Gabrades arose from the Inner Pontus, a region with its own distinct identity: a mountainous area, it was scarcely affected by Hellenization and preserved a traditional and archaic societal structure, with tiny lordships centred on mountain strong-holds.
Machiavellian intrigues of international high politics are scarcely the preserve of our century alone and in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence Jonathan Capee, April), the original master of unscrupulous strategy takes a starring role.
The 1602 journal by Willem Van West-Zanen of the ship Bruin-Vis mentions that 24-25 dodos were hunted for food, which were so large that two could scarcely be consumed at mealtime, their remains being preserved by salting.
The wealth of herbarium specimens preserved in international herbaria has, however, scarcely been exploited in this context, although already Bruns et al. [3] addressed the topic of extracting DNA from fungal herbarium specimens.
Moreover, so many personal papers are today preserved that a lifelong friend of the subject scarcely has time to complete his biography.
And though offscreen Bloom preserved a dignified distance in her caravan, the scorned Elizabeth can scarcely have enjoyed the spectacle of the two of them flirting on the set.
John Graves Simcoe, one of the unit's later commanders, noted in 1784: Green is without comparison the best colour for light troops with dark accouterments; and if put on in the spring, by autumn it nearly fades with the leaves, preserving its characteristic of being scarcely discernible at a distance.
Because the Psalms are poems, he wants to preserve in English what he calls the "rhythmic compactness" of the originals, "something one could scarcely guess from the existing English versions".
