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Sentences starting with hardly

Hardly were the words spoken, when Dorothy ran to my bedside, and seizing my hand, faced him. [9]
Hardly any passengers were taken, because they not only add weight but they never will 'trim boat. [5]
Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. [5]
Hardly a day went by that there were not people in the White House begging mercy for a sentenced soldier. [7]
Hardly a word was said during the next three-quarters of an hour. [5]
Hardly any of us young people had ever seen a man before who had lost his life by violence; so this cadaver had an awful fascination for us; we could not take our eyes from it. [5]
Hardly anybody seemed to know her, and she seemed not at all disposed to make acquaintances. [6]
Hardly worth while to come so far, though; any other supposititious place would have answered just as well--hey? [5]
Hardly comprehensible by the vulgar mind! [10]
Hardly had she swallowed the deadly draught when she shivered with a sudden chill. [10]

Sentences ending with hardly

Jim said nobody would know me, even in the daytime, hardly. [5]
We rode half through the city and through the famous "street which is called Straight" without seeing any thing, hardly. [5]
Do not take the words too hardly. [10]
Others of us have fared less hardly. [5]
So we dug and dug with the case-knives till most midnight; and then we was dog-tired, and our hands was blistered, and yet you couldn't see we'd done anything hardly. [5]
I'm all in a muddle; can't recollect anything of it, hardly. [5]
Hardly. [5]

Short sentences using hardly

You hardly do yourself justice. [11]
We're hardly settled yet. [8]
I can hardly wait. [9]
I need hardly tell you. [3]
I could hardly stomach it. [8]
Jo could hardly speak. [11]
I hardly know myself again. [2]
It hardly ever happens. [5]
She hardly ever goes out. [8]
He will hardly feel it. [10]

More example sentences with the word hardly in them

He thought the young gentleman could hardly find time for such a meeting during his brief visit. [6]
To be sure, you'll hardly find me before ten o'clock. [10]
She was hardly yet over the naive surprises of her lovely surroundings. [4]
What she now wrote to John could hardly exert much influence upon him. [10]
If I am wrong, forgive me--if I am right, your punishment will hardly be lighter than my fate. [10]
I don't often write anything that I laugh at myself, but I can hardly think of that thing without laughing). [5]
She did not write a mournful poem; indeed, she was a silent person, and perhaps hardly said a word about it; but she quietly turned of a deep orange color with jaundice. [6]
Mr. Davis's pamphlet would hardly be complete without a mysterious letter from an unnamed writer, whether a faithless friend, a disguised enemy, a secret emissary, or an injudicious alarmist, we have no means of judging for ourselves. [6]
It is hardly worth while to consider the projects for relieving the Mississippi River floods by creating new outlets, since these sensational propositions have commended themselves only to unthinking minds, and have no support among engineers. [5]
Some of 'em's worth twenty dollars apiece--there ain't any, hardly, but's worth six bits or a dollar. [5]
At times the world swam around me, and I could hardly keep from letting go, so dizzying was the appalling danger. [5]
So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
Then came these words, but hardly audible: "And in a thousand years the English power in France will not rise up from that blow. [5]
Naturally, the distant witness supposed they were now looking upon three corpses; so they could hardly believe their eyes when they presently saw two of the men rise to their feet and bend over the third. [5]
It is hardly without a smile that we resuscitate the old question of the 'vis insita' of the muscular fibre, so famous in the discussions of Haller and his contemporaries. [3]
She did it with the greatest caution, but her fingers had hardly touched her, when Selene shrank back with a groan, and before she could undo the sandal, the patient had fainted away. [10]
It was brilliant with sunshine, and the vast smooth bulge seemed hardly five hundred yards away. [5]
They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
Book-agents visit it with other commercial travelers, but the flood of knowledge, which is said to be the beginning of sorrow, is hardly turned in that direction yet. [4]
Deal not hardly with me, sir, else am I ruined. [5]
He remained there, with his head unconsciously bent forward, drinking in the melody, stirring neither hand nor foot, hardly breathing. [5]
He read it with eyes and senses that at first could hardly understand. [11]
He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor. [6]
Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he was. [5]
That was a wise thought; matches were hardly known there in that day. [5]
Even the reformers will hardly insist upon two Presidents in order to carry out the equality idea, so that we are probably anticipating difficulties that will not occur in practice. [4]
I fancy that will be hardly necessary. [11]
But the young wife hardly tasted anything. [10]
The world is wide, and a cousin or two more or less can hardly be considered an essential of existence. [6]
The author from whom Montaigne took his facts is the elder Pliny, who, in his Natural History, Book X, Chapter 83, says, "Other animals become sated with veneral pleasures; man hardly knows any satiety. [5]
The bootmaker to whom I went on good recommendation had hardly anything about his premises to remind one of his calling. [6]
He had that wholesome, happy look, so uncommon in our arid countrymen,--a look hardly to be found except where figs and oranges ripen in the open air. [6]
There were here whole groups of men who did not join at all, or hardly opened their mouths. [10]
The tall Thessalian who marched after the Archidikastes to the Hall of justice, carrying his papers, was hardly grander than his "body-servant. [10]
The two men, who had been drinking, hardly knew what ground to take. [6]
You young men who are following the hospitals hardly know how much you are indebted to Louis. [6]
Cornelia's lips grow white, and her pulse hardly warms her thin fingers,--but she has melted all the ice out of the hearts of those young Gracchi, and her lost heat is in the blood of her youthful heroes. [6]
For a little while we had some warm days--according to the family's estimate; I was hardly discommoded myself. [5]
I hardly breathe while she is on the stage. [4]
The many characters which they possess in common can hardly have been independently acquired by so many distinct species; so that these characters must have been inherited. [1]
It is individual, which the ocean, with all its gulfs and inlets and multitudinous shores, hardly seems to be. [6]
Yes, pitying kindness, which is a bitter sweet in which the amiable ingredient can hardly be said to predominate. [6]
I hardly knew whether to smile or shudder. [5]
Gifted hardly knew whether to be pleased with her sympathy, or vexed that she did not take his leaving more to heart. [6]
These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent--their desolation is complete. [5]
A year ago, when Italy saw utter ruin staring her in the face and her greenbacks hardly worth the paper they were printed on, her Parliament ventured upon a 'coup de main' that would have appalled the stoutest of her statesmen under less desperate circumstances. [5]
But just then, when I had hardly any hope of succeeding, the gracious Amescha cpenta sent a youth across my path, who seemed created by Angramainjus himself to suit my plan. [10]
He hardly knew what to think. [5]
I hardly know what to say. [7]
We hardly know what to do with all the money. [10]
I hardly knew what I was going to talk about, but it went off in splendid style. [5]
He thought of what he had done as a misfortune, and not as a crime; he himself hardly knew how it had all come about. [10]
I hardly know what happened even to myself. [10]
He was hardly what Dr. Johnson would have called a "clubable" man, yet he enjoyed the meetings in his still way, or he would never have come from Concord so regularly to attend them. [6]
What his words were you can imagine; his manner you can hardly realise, nor can I forget it. [14]
If the prisoner were to take advantage of his freedom and attempt to escape, the jailer's feelings would be hurt, and public opinion would hardly approve the prisoner's conduct. [4]
Daly and Clemens were old friends, and it would seem that Daly could hardly have escaped seeing the play when it was going the rounds. [5]
But now steps were heard at the door, steps so rapid that they could hardly be his mother's. [2]
But these sounds were hardly heard in comparison with the noise of the firing outside the town and attracted little attention from the inhabitants. [2]
Bryant and Halleck were abundantly praised; hardly any one else escaped. [6]
It may be well enough to explain, though in the case of many of my readers this will hardly be necessary. [5]
Indeed, she resented wearing them, and could hardly bring herself to thank him for them. [11]
I felt so weak that I hardly knew whether I was awake or asleep. [10]
So,' he says, 'we tie our faces up with kerchiefs and turn our heads away as we drag them off: we can hardly do it. [2]
When we arrived we found them crowded with stock, all of which was thin and hardly able to stand up. [5]
Give me the water, please, my mouth is parched and I can hardly speak for thirst. [10]
What this something was, Dudley Venner could hardly say; but he felt it distinctly, and it sealed his lips. [6]
Months after this was written, I happened into the National Gallery in London, and soon became so fascinated with the Turner pictures that I could hardly get away from the place. [5]
I knew I was pale as death, for as I turned to leave the room I caught sight of my face in a little mirror tacked on the door, and I hardly recognised myself. [11]
When the supper was over he hardly knew whether he had eaten any of it or not, and he certainly hadn't heard any of the conversation. [5]
After all, it was only an accident which would hardly need a word of explanation. [4]
But such immunity was not to be granted to the emperor's sweetheart, who could so audaciously reject two brothers accustomed to easy conquests; her demure severity could hardly be meant seriously. [10]
The last one was hardly twenty. [2]
Samuel Cooper Thacher was hardly twenty years old when the "Anthology" was founded, and died when he was only a little more than thirty. [6]
The poor fellow was hardly recognizable. [10]
But the Maria was hardly cast and under way before it became painfully apparent that the Celebrity was much better fitted to lead a cotillon than to sail a boat. [9]
This old-time courtesy was hardly appreciated at the moment. [4]
But when it was discovered that those lumps were melted half dollars, and hardly melted at that, a painful case of "salting" was apparent, and the undersigned adjourned to the poorhouse again. [5]
Long before it was decided Dada had been impatiently fingering her wreaths, and could hardly wait any longer to fling them into Marcus' chariot. [10]
The others are wandering, we hardly know where. [5]
Celebrities in every walk of life, persons of social and official rank, writers for the press, assembled there on terms hardly possible in any other home in Vienna. [5]
Clemens could hardly walk next morning, but they managed to get to North Ashford, where they took a carriage for the nearest railway station. [5]
He could hardly wait for her to come out. [13]
He could hardly wait for evening to come, before he went to see her; when it came, it seemed to have come too soon. [8]
Thus the second waggon likewise had come to hurt by the sudden stopping of the first, and it was but hardly saved from turning over into the ditch. [10]
Selene had hardly vouchsafed Antinous a glance. [10]
Cauchon raised his voice and began to speak in the midst of this noise, but he was so angry that he could hardly get his words out. [5]
But it is very, very difficult; it is next to impossible, and so we hardly ever try. [5]
The river was very wide, and was walled with solid timber on both sides; you couldn't see a break in it hardly ever, or a light. [5]
But he is very pasty and tough and misshapen now, and hardly ever interests himself about anything. [5]
Moreover, anything performed very often by us, will at last be done without deliberation or hesitation, and can then hardly be distinguished from an instinct; yet surely no one will pretend that such an action ceases to be moral. [1]
I am not very delicate, but I see you understand me; such substantial fare would hardly suit me just now. [10]
His name was Veit Spiesz, and she had heard her father say that the scribe was the son of a simple lute-player and could hardly earn enough to live. [10]
And though Prince Vasili, when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. [2]
Necessarily, then, these various clusters of whites must have heard of the great river of the far west; and indeed, they did hear of it vaguely,--so vaguely and indefinitely, that its course, proportions, and locality were hardly even guessable. [5]
Putting forth their utmost strength, the overloaded men labored up the steep and hardly distinguishable mountain path. [10]
The guide told us these things, and he would hardly try so hazardous an experiment as the telling of a falsehood, when it is all he can do to speak the truth in English without getting the lock-jaw. [5]
Then she looked up at the Doctor so steadily and searchingly that the diamond eyes of Elsie herself could hardly have pierced more deeply. [6]
It was taken up again by other companies, and by the time Iberville presented himself to Count Frontenac, not long after, there was hardly a citizen, soldier, or woodsman, but was singing it. [11]
Her mind was unsettled: she could hardly recall anything except the plunge over the fall. [6]

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