Each of these hamlets possesses a church, though the population is of the very sparsest, and in each he maintains a resident curate.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Carlat had made a couch for her, and screened it with cloaks from the wind and the eye; for the moon had risen, and where the trees stood sparsest its light flooded the soil with pools of white.
"Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France"
Stanley J. Weyman
Each was drawn instinctively toward the Cours la Reine-the point from whence the stream was pouring, the point where the crowd of loiterers was sparsest, where the bare and frosted trees caught the sun in a million dancing facets.
"Max"
Katherine Cecil Thurston