scarcely

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Speak, young man, if there be need of thee: and yet scarcely when thou art twice asked.

Its fabric owing to the draught of wind was in perpetual motion, and as this motion was communicated from the bottom and the curtain bulged out to its highest extent, it afforded a pleasant spectacle from which a man could scarcely tear himself away.