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/nˈɛroʊli/ Listen

adverb

Narrowly adv.

With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

Without much extent; contractedly.

With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.

With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.

Sparingly; parsimoniously.

With close adherence to the literal meaning of a text; as, to interpret narrowly; to construe narrowly; to read narrowly; used especially of laws and contracts.

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... Sir, on one occasion," and here Harry's voice fluttered and faltered. No one noticed it, however, except the prisoner; if any neighbor eyes had watched him narrowly—but they were all fixed upon the witness—they would have seen his face whiten, and his brow grow damp. Why should she have laid that stress upon "on ...

— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

... mind which, having long and trustworthy experience of a rule, can nevertheless understand that other minds may have equal experience of the exception to the rule, was one of the qualities which had not been included in the moral composition of Mrs. Payson. She held firmly to her own narrowly conscientious sense of her duty; stimulated by a natural indignation against Amelius, who had bitterly disappointed her—against Rufus, who had not scrupled to take up his defence. The two old friends parted in coldness, for the first time in ...

— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

... master was just as ugly as he had been when he went to sleep. He was keeping his temper on a wire edge for the purposes of the job of that day, as he had planned the affair. He did not go up to the impertinent drummer and cuff his ears, but the stranger did not know how narrowly he escaped that visitation ...

— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... thousand men; those who remained after the carnage were sent by Caesar in safety to the forests whence they had issued.[2] 10. The Germans, with Ariovis'tus at their head, were next cut off, to the number of eighty thousand, their monarch himself narrowly escaping in a little boat across the Rhine. The Belgae[3] suffered such a terrible overthrow, that marshes and rivers were rendered impassable from the heaps of slain. 11. The Ner'vians,[4] who were the most warlike of those barbarous nations, made head for a short time, ...

— Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome • Oliver Goldsmith

... Longford watched him narrowly and with something of dismay,—for if this lordly patron, who, by his position alone, was able to push things on in certain quarters of the press, were to suddenly turn crusty and unreasonable, where would his, Longford's, 'great literary light' be? Quenched utterly like a ...

— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

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