Sentence:  That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in the Boy's bed. At first he found it rather uncomfortable, for the Boy hugged him very tight, and sometimes he rolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could <WSD>scarcely</WSD> breathe. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Almost not at all; by a small margin.