scarce

niukka, vähäinen

niukasti uncommon Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
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You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.

A region scarce of prey.

With a scarce well-lighted flame.

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you ....

Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.

Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.

Well, it's scarce the replacement then, is it?