- "An element so alien that we can scarcely conceive of it!

He could scarcely conceive that life, at least his own, could be much different.

They scarcely conceived, still less tackled, the problems which even the First Men had faced so often, though so vainly.

As she had at San Serano, she felt again that outside the room lay, not death, but something worse whose nature she could scarcely even conceive.

Part of her mind could scarcely conceive it.

One could scarcely conceive of a high-ranking imperial officer being so casual with what was obviously a top-secret document.

Tylara could scarcely conceive of a starship.

We can scarcely conceive of it.

Blood's house would be somewhere on the Palatine; Silk could scarcely conceive of anyone who rode in a privately owned floater living anywhere else.

Sumari could scarcely conceive of traveling offworld, much less the long-term deep exploration that now defined his life.