Use harder in a sentence
Sentences starting with harder
- Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in innocent sufferings. [2]
Sentences ending with harder
- So much the worse for the Russian army.... Go on... harder, harder! [2]
- Lovejoy alone remained tense, though he had seated himself on a bench, and the hot anger in which he had come was now cooled into a vindictiveness that set the hard lines of his face even harder. [9]
- I wish the old man had hit harder! [10]
- The priests will not release us from our vows, and times get harder and harder. [10]
- It seemed to me we had felt as sorry for them poor people as a person could for anybody, and as mournful, too, but we was mistaken; this last caravan's death went harder with us, a good deal harder. [5]
- The force driving him on, however, was greater than hunger--he ran harder. [11]
- To have to endure it in silence, and sitting still, made it all the harder. [5]
- Her wistfulness had deepened into downright unhappiness, and that made his task to tell her all the harder. [13]
- They turned with carbines cocked, but it was Abe Hawley who cursed them, flung his fingers in their faces, and rode on harder and harder. [11]
- Life is hard as it is, and you have suddenly made it harder. [11]
Short sentences using harder
- Eros loves harder work. [10]
- But that is harder still. [11]
- None worked harder. [4]
- He ran harder. [11]
- Pelt harder! [2]
Sentences containing harder two or more times
- She knew that Sonya was the chief obstacle to this happening, and Sonya's life in the countess' house had grown harder and harder, especially after they had received a letter from Nicholas telling of his meeting with Princess Mary in Bogucharovo. [2]
- There was no question in her mind, now that it was given her to see things more clearly, that she might have tried harder, much harder, to make their marriage a success. [9]
- Clothes were wearing out, bread was harder and harder to get. [5]
- This, of course, intensified the sufferings of the awakening--so the mortifications of each succeeding morning of the few that passed between his return to bondage and the combat with Hugo, grew bitterer and bitterer, and harder and harder to bear. [5]
- The man tried his best to understand me; he tried, and kept on trying, harder and harder, until I saw it was really of no use, and said: "There, don't strain yourself--it is of no consequence. [5]
More example sentences with the word harder in them
- A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century. [6]
- The flatteries with which she had been surrounded, and the effect of all the new appliances of beauty, which had set her off so that she could not help seeing her own attractions, rendered her harder to please and to satisfy. [6]
- I'm very comfortable where I am; that is, I know just where the pinch comes, and if it comes harder, why, I've got used to bearing that kind of pinch. [8]
- Kitty Tynan's eyes were fixed on him as though hypnotised, and the Young Doctor was scarcely less interested; while the widow knitted harder and faster than she had ever done, and she could knit very fast indeed. [11]
- How infinitely harder was the one dealt to him! [10]
- That Margaret herself was apparently unconscious of this, and that it did not affect much her own enjoyment, made it the harder to bear. [4]
- One has to wait, and wait, even if the heart grows harder, and one gets hopeless. [11]
- There is another up above, but the stair has got harder to climb o' late years, and I never use it. [12]
- A bright hope unfulfilled is harder to bear than an unexpected sorrow. [10]
- It proved an unfortunate journey; the hot weather was hard on Mrs. Clemens, and harder still, perhaps, on Mark Twain's temper. [5]
- You are past twenty, and every year it grows harder to say yes to a lover. [10]
- This was a truth which the fiery old theorist found it very hard to learn, and harder to bear, as it was forced upon him. [6]
- I was hard towards thee, harder than a father. [10]
- It happens only too often that Epicurus is confounded with Aristippus, who places sensual pleasure above intellectual enjoyment, as he holds that bodily pain is harder to endure than mental anguish. [10]
- I am counselled to wait and watch--D. V. I will do so; yet it is harder to wait with the hands bound, and the observant and reflective faculties at their silent and unseen work, than to labour mechanically. [14]
- So nobody goes to headquarters and reports insults of manner, insults of gesture, look, and so forth; and yet these are sometimes harder to bear than any words. [5]
- It is harder to fight against cunning weakness than against honest enmity. [10]
- Folks work harder to enjoy themselves than at anything else I know. [4]
- When I went to Berlin in winter, harder work, many friends, and especially my Polish fellow-student, Mieczyslaw helped me bear my burden patiently. [10]
- Uncertainty is harder to bear than disaster itself. [4]
- She begged me to be content with the 'no;' then I pressed her harder, till she interrupted me, and owned with proud decision that she preferred some one else. [10]
- You must be tired, I think,--you've worked hard in this campaign, a good deal harder than I have. [9]
- I, too, have thought of thee with secret rancor; for through thee I lost another possession harder for a man to renounce than office: the love of woman. [10]
- The Scientist finds this reasonable, natural, and not harder to believe than that the disease germ, a creature of darkness, perishes when exposed to the light of the great sun--a new revelation of profane science which no one doubts. [5]
- There are just thirty-two of them, as there were five and thirty years ago, but they are steeper and harder to climb, it seems to me, than they were then. [6]
- Well, no doubt they find it harder than clergymen to believe that there can be any world or state from which this benevolent agency is wholly excluded. [6]
- Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. [5]
- The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still harder from behind. [2]
- They say at the Union that years ago he used to do a good many generous things--that he is a great deal harder than he used to be. [4]
- And so now, the thought of its being there, so handy and close by, and yet not get-at-able, made it all the worse and the harder to bear. [5]
- The harder I--as the sovereign--find it to answer the question the more positively do I feel it to be my duty to mete out the same measure to all veterans alike, whether officials, warriors or instructors. [10]
- The more severe the pain he had to endure, the harder must he find it to hide it from the crowd who were constantly about him. [10]
- A few laughed the harder because they knew Wassef would come to feel it had been better to have chained Mahommed Selim to a barren fig-tree and kept him there until he married Soada, than to let him go. [11]
- Yet he found the conflict harder than he expected and as, at the close of the mass, the Dona nobis pacem (grant us peace) began, he joined beseechingly in the prayer. [10]
- But I know that there is none harder for a woman to make than her love. [10]
- Don't you know that the harder you are at work, the happier you are? [12]
- But if anythin', that makes it harder to tell. [13]
- It was considered that a person could strike harder in the duel, and with a more earnest interest, if he had never been in a condition of comradeship with his antagonist; therefore, comradeship between the corps was not permitted. [5]
- That is harder than to see a husband ride away for a few hours on the anniversary of his wedding-day. [10]
- It is harder than the other. [11]
- He tried to take her by storm, and when this method failed, resorted to pleadings and supplications even harder to deny because of the innate feminine pity she felt for him. [9]
- Colder and tighter stretched the skin over his face; colder and harder grew the polished butts of his guns; colder and steadier became his hands as he wiped the clammy sweat from his face or reached low to his gun-sheaths. [13]
- It was in sooth a foolish thing to do; yet perhaps that was why she found it all the harder to give it up, and go she would not, but hid herself among the bushes. [10]
- The precious minutes slipped by; among so many bewitching songsters he found it hard to choose, and all the harder because the promised penalty for an error was so terrible that it unsettled his judgment and made him afraid to trust his own ears. [5]
- It is a sickness that gives raging pain--like a poisoned arrow in an open wound, and devours all that is near it like a fire-brand, and is harder to cure than the disease which is killing that coughing wench. [10]
- Day by day she grew harder of heart against those who held her in the hospital--for to her it was but a prison. [11]
- Little Tomkinson, the second assistant, had resigned; and McCrae, who worked harder than ever before, was already marked, Hodder knew, for dismissal if he himself were defeated. [9]
- I wanted to say to Hungerford that I was an ass; but that was even harder still. [11]
- The more she saw of Lassiter the more she respected him, and the greater her respect the harder it became to lend herself to mere coquetry. [13]
- Sacrifice and again sacrifice, according to the Minorite, was the magic spell that opened the gates of heaven, and what harder sacrifice could he offer than that of his love? [10]
- This wood is really harder than iron, and I confess that the man who could bend it, would really be my master. [10]
- He depends upon Ralph, and it will be harder for me when he is not with us. [9]
- It had been raining since morning and had seemed as if at any moment it might cease and the sky clear, but after a short break it began raining harder than before. [2]
- No excommunication, no punishment, can make my present suffering harder to bear, but if you harm the doctor, I shall curse the hour I invited you to cross my threshold. [10]
- The harder his position became and the more terrible the future, the more independent of that position in which he found himself were the joyful and comforting thoughts, memories, and imaginings that came to him. [2]
- But all at once you remember--and then you work harder, not because you love work now for its own sake, but because it uses up your misery and makes you tired; and being tired you can sleep, and in sleep you can forget. [11]
- What he desired of her would be hard for her to do, but now that he knew her it was far harder to ask. [10]
- But he had noticed Lali shrink visibly and flush slightly when some one stared harder than usual, and this troubled him. [11]
- Mr. Flint did not call it a conscience--he had a harder name for it. [9]
- But I am not a business man, and honor is a harder master than the law. [5]
- He understood human nature; he knew that a jest is often much harder to bear than a grave affront, and therefore seized this opportunity to repeat the inconsiderate joke which Amasis had, it is true, allowed himself to make in one of his merry moods. [10]
- If you obey me we must succeed; and the harder the task, the higher the reward. [10]
- That knowledge made matters all the harder for him. [9]
- He left Mrs. Mandel to a far harder lot than had fallen to him, and he went away hating her as an enemy who had humiliated him at a moment when he particularly needed exalting. [8]
- Between the old man and herself there had come a gradual separation, harder to bear than any former sorrow. [12]
- Stone statues are made of harder material, but a soul dwells within them too. [10]
- Prodigious acquisitions were made in things which add to the comfort of many and make life harder for as many more. [5]
- The voice now lost a little of its caressing note and partook of a harder quality. [9]
- You have but lost a day and made our task harder, for we will cross and take the bridge forts. [5]
- But when the little Chevalier stopped and turned his eye-glass upon him with sudden startled inquiry, he found it harder to keep composure. [11]
- In this light Lindau seemed the harder of the two, and March had the momentary force to say-- "Mr. Dryfoos--it can't be. [8]
- The longer we let 'em rear and kick, the harder to break 'em. [9]
- Unspeakably hard trials lay behind her, and harder ones must, perhaps, yet be vanquished. [10]
- He did not know that since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they did still harder work on their own land. [2]
- A cry of joy came from the lips of the missionary, and he worked harder still. [11]
- I don't believe it's harder than it was to solve that prize problem which puzzled so many teachers, or than beating Crakowitz, the great chess-player. [6]
- In a word, it shows that a dollar will be much harder to pay for the war than will be a dollar for emancipation on the proposed plan. [7]
- I shall find it harder to forget. [10]
- I think it is twelve times--I cannot remember; and each time it was down a step lower, and each time I got a harder master. [5]
- True religious equality is harder to establish than civil liberty. [6]
- Your other question is harder to answer. [5]
- O Wolff, why is everything made so much harder for us than for others? [10]
- Oak, when bent, is even harder to bend back again. [9]
- The conversation got involved, and it grew harder every minute. [11]
- When he looked into their eyes it was with a steely directness harder and fiercer than was observed by the audience. [11]
- I do not intend to spare myself, and giving will be harder than earning. [9]
- He was down in the lowest depths of despair, now; for the harder Barrow tried to find work for him the more hopeless the possibilities seemed to grow. [5]
- The Sphynx: a hundred and twenty-five feet long, sixty feet high, and a hundred and two feet around the head, if I remember rightly--carved out of one solid block of stone harder than any iron. [5]
- He had a heart harder than iron, a speech that bruised worse than the hoof of an angry moose. [11]
- In another moment he could not have been harder to find, under that tossing sea of life, if its billows had been the Atlantic's and he a lost sixpence. [5]
- The organ-blower works harder with his muscles, for that matter, than the organ player, and may perhaps be exasperated into thinking himself a downtrodden martyr because he does not receive the same pay for his services. [6]
- Women's hearts are harder to understand than your Greek books. [10]
- There is nothing harder to forgive than the sting of an epigram. [6]
- He found it harder to establish any very near relations with Myrtle, who had never seemed to care much for any young man but Cyprian Eveleth, and to care for him quite as much as Olive's brother as for any personal reason. [6]
- Man has nothing harder to endure than uncertainty, and generally, when in suspense, looks forward to bad rather than to good news. [10]
- Our parents were harder on us than any one else. [5]
- I had a harder job with her; my knife is so bad, and the copper blade bent with the blow; I had to strangle the gaudy devil with my hands, and she tore my shoulder and bit my arm. [10]
- Mary (how much harder featured and brazen a woman is in such a position than a man of the same caliber! [4]
- The way is harder but more open, and if we be prospered we will rest awhile at the Bar of Balmud, and at noon we will tether and eat in the Neck of Baroob. [11]
- Her heart beat harder at the thought of it. [11]
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