Philadelphia went on to drop a scarcely better 10 of their next 13 games, by which time Parent and McKenzie returned.

However, she had been down to salt pork and salt beef, and the Reliant was scarcely better off.

My backhand, as it turns out, is scarcely better.

Qat was weak, and his servants in scarcely better shape.

The colleges were in scarcely better condition, though philanthropy was about to dramatically change that.

The picture in the south is scarcely better.

Matters were scarcely better within the 25-story building, which had filled with smoke ingested by vents from the outside and spewed indoors.

She had to carry me out, and she was in scarcely better shape than I was.

Many of the infantry were in scarcely better condition.

Even some historians have maintained that free blacks before the Civil War were scarcely better off than bondsmen.