The eye of the old man was riveted upon a spot which Villefort could scarcely distinguish.

As yet he scarcely distinguished between the two sisters.

It was all but dark in the room and we could scarcely distinguish the faces of the men who had entered.

One could scarcely distinguish the numbers on the doors.

And when that tedious ten minutes had ticked by I could scarcely distinguish its hands.

He could scarcely distinguish the place, it had dwindled so with the distance.

The fog increased with such intensity that he could scarcely distinguish objects at ten paces' distance.

I dine quickly, and then try to read, but I do not understand the words, and can scarcely distinguish the letters.

None of them could have been seen, for they themselves could scarcely distinguish the brig in the fog.

They could scarcely distinguish those large spots which give the moon the appearance of a human face.