I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely — Soren Kierkegaard
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. — William Shakespeare
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. — George Herbert