This is but the barest catalogue of his work; there is nothing that arises, no part of the life of the village and the country side, to which he does not set his hand.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Even so a drowning man fights who in old failures to learn swimming has just mastered its barest rudiments.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
So when, after a two hours' walk through the evening glow and the moonrise, Rosalind came home to Sally's revelation, as we have seen, the slight exception her voice took to universal rejoicing was the barest echo of the tension of her absolutely unsuccessful attempt to get in the thin end of the wedge of an incredible revelation.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan