With nothing left but a soon-to-wither manioc crop, it could hardly be a strategic advantage for the combatants to seize on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, she hardly said a word at all. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

With hardly a word Cilia went back to the settle where Isannah was sprawled and picked up her slate. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a class together, but she hardly ever talks.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She could hardly remember a Christmas day when she didn’t have a present from one of her students. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these pillboxes are so scarred by assault that she can hardly imagine the fire and speed and terror of the projectiles showering onto them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The noise of fourteen thousand aeroplanes advancing in open order. But in the Kurfurstendamm and the Eighth Arrondissement, the explosion of the anthrax bombs is hardly louder than the popping of a paper bag.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it is also generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clem Ostler placed his forefinger between my eyes and pushed me, so gently I hardly felt it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Though some of you hardly look like children,” she added, nodding at William. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Anyone attempting to scale these heights would hardly be capable of fighting a duel upon arrival at the top. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I have to go,” Jessica said, and Olive had hardly begun to say goodbye when her new friend was borne away by the crowd toward a waiting train. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He turns on the TV, it hardly comes in at all the screen is so fuzzy, and he keeps switching channels and he's cussing out the old lady for having such a crummy TV. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They worked diligently, hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Last night I was so upset I could hardly sleep,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, they spent their whole time on the plaza undisturbed by Martina or anyone at all, and yet they spoke hardly a word. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He examined it and found that it was not too tight, indeed hardly tight enough. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At lunch on the day of my Chicago visit, Jesse and I could hardly stop talking about what had happened at Littleton. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marly hardly heard past the words “country schools.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what the counselor at school said anyway about Grandma’s and Mom’s ghosts, which was pretty astute considering I hardly told her anything. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Like things had been out of control for so long that whatever I did hardly mattered anymore. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Aron sat up and said almost angrily, “I don’t hardly ever cry unless I’m mad. I don’t know why I cried.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d hardly have a minute to eat her meal if he didn’t go. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve hardly seen him all week, since he’s been at practice every afternoon until pretty late. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding and I could hardly breathe. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she wanted to be a super architect when she grew up—she loves math and historical buildings and all that—but I hardly understood a word she was saying. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In time, mothers and children discover they hardly know each other. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He gazed around, this way and that, hardly knowing where to look first. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Bordering this, where the mountains turned to foothills, the map showed rolling country with quite a few roads but hardly any towns, which, we thought, ought to mean farmland. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bells rings, but you can hardly hear it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Even though listening was about the best thing that Branwell had been doing lately, he hardly looked at me the whole time I talked. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s hardly a joking matter when one’s loyal subjects are being eaten like popcorn.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The case could go on forever, and he hadn’t taken hardly a minute off since it began. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had hardly passed us when Papa Nnukwu shouted, “Look away! Women cannot look at this one!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway I just got your beautiful letter and I love you to pieces, distraction, etc., and can hardly wait for the weekend. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was just as tall as I was, and I could hardly think of life without her. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His upper lip was so swollen he could hardly get his mouth shut. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You will hardly recognize it, but it is very fitting that you came to the Golden Day with the young fellow," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were hardly the only wares for sale in the heated marketplace that was ancient Greek cosmological debate. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Everything looked like it was a hundred years old and hardly ever repaired. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure can hardly fit it into the mouth of her knapsack. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“In short,” said he, “perhaps, Miss Woodhouse—I think you can hardly be quite without suspicion”— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“I think no. Now is not the season for tsetse flies. There is hardly any sleeping sickness at all in Kilanga right now.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The axe got so heavy I could hardly swing it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir?” she said, her voice hardly audible. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At home he hardly communicated with anyone but went immediately to his tiny room, where he listened to the gospel music of James Cleveland. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, my mantra is taking a lot of effort; I can hardly wait until these guests leave. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I no longer had to root through the bathroom wastebaskets for food, and I hardly ever went hungry again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had hardly been a slouch his junior year, scoring fifteen touchdowns in addition to gaining over a thousand yards rushing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry bellowed, and he flung his arms over his head, hardly knowing whether he was trying to hold in his anger or protect himself from the weight of his own disillusionment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was hardly anyone to be seen in the narrow alleys, only a few of the Black Jackets, as Meggie had secretly dubbed them, with skinny boys following them like puppies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And he held the bright-burnished vambrace that was upon his arm before her cold lips, and behold! a little mist was laid on it hardly to be seen. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It hardly counted as paying rent, but they insisted it was plenty. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The night sky was clear, but I could hardly see the stars for all the streetlights. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Together they watched as the green sea lolled about, the waves hardly peaked enough to break against the rocks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Or hardly anything, except that I make something of myself that she called a "race leader." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with Mami’s help, I hardly have time to study or do my homework. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For we had hardly passed through the gate, when I saw more people—men, women, and children—in that one moment than I had seen in all my life together. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

During all its long hours of cloud and fitful sun they hardly paused, now striding, now running, as if no weariness could quench the fire that burned them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That hardly seemed necessary when a white-and-black police car circled around the block. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the children, listening, could hardly contain themselves, and when he’d finished, they burst forth with questions: How had he come here? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly speaks to me and I do not know how to tell him I am sorry his mother died. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would have gone himself, but with the recent disciplinary troubles in the warren he could not take the risk; and Campion could hardly be spared just now. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a baby’s breath tremor, a hairline crack you could hardly see unless you were looking for trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. I can hardly keep up with people wanting them. Besides, you already have enough.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But I was hardly any less in the dark, and I was in Bulungu, the very village where Lumumba had been captured. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. ’S all right, Lyra,” he called back, though his eyes were filled with tears of pain and he could hardly think. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Father and Mother and Mr. Dussel were awake most of the night, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that I hardly got a wink of sleep. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But then, right at 2300 hours, Werner sees it, hardly one block from where they parked the Opel: an antenna sliding up alongside a chimney. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jesse could hardly comprehend a Congress that would care about a presidents sex life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly ever saw her in the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did he always speak in so subdued a voice, hardly above a whisper? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family paid no attention to her scribblings, and Stella surprised even herself—today she could hardly wait to write down what had happened. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He curried and brushed two saddle horses in the stalls, talking quietly to them all the time; and he had hardly finished when the iron triangle started ringing at the ranch house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a happy evening that she could hardly sleep later that night. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t checked the weather and felt vaguely unsettled about that because the Frog didn’t have any radio gear except a cheap little transistor battery-powered receiver that hardly ever worked right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minnie could hardly wait for the end of the school year, when her sister at last would be able to extricate herself from her duties at the Midlothian Academy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I hate him for reasons that run so deep my conscious mind hardly has access to them. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Relia, don’t get upset. The show’s hardly started yet. There’ll be lots of worse things than a few camels getting chewed up. Wait till the lions come on!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the parade music began, I hardly talked and no one seemed to notice. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was drenched with sweat; but Faramir did not move or make any sign, and seemed hardly to breathe. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He could hardly hold the fork when he ate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hardly resembled the perfect robot who had appeared on the shore just a week earlier. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For most of us, the periodic table is a thing of beauty in the abstract, but for chemists it established an immediate orderliness and clarity that can hardly be overstated. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Several of us Navajos were there by the radio and we could hardly believe it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was incredible. We could hardly take it.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But Griffith, an unassuming, painfully shy scientist—“this tiny man who...barely spoke above a whisper”—could hardly be expected to broadcast the broader relevance or appeal of his results. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hardly got to go anywhere either, so I wasn’t going to mess up my chance by crossing Raheem. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

For a moment one could hardly think about anything else. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the roar of the water and the lashing of the trees in the wind were too loud: he could hardly hear the hammering himself. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The knife is so sharp and Aaron must be so strong that it’s hardly ruined the book at all. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

If I’m not worthy of water in this state, then I can hardly even imagine what it’s like to be worse off. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

"I may be craven, but I'm not stupid. I'm sore and my back aches from riding and from sleeping on the ground, but I'm hardly scared at all. Look." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That hardly seems like a good reason for shipping your brother off in the mail.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She arrived at four and had hardly let herself down from her van when she saw the front door swing open and Mr. Singh come down the path to the curb. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her head swayed, as if she could hardly keep it up. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I said, “You’re lucky to be leaving the city where one day is like another and you hardly notice the weather. It’s like living inside a glass bottle. You’ll be happier on your farm.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And in the later afternoon, everyone would come home, looking tired, hardly noticing the demons who lit the gas lamps. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, Turner III, you’re as wicked as I am. You hardly have to practice at all.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sink in the corner of our room is hardly big enough to wash our dishes so it sure ain’t fit for washing clothes. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Riccio's mattress was covered with old comic books and his sleeping bag was stuffed with so many stuffed animals that there was hardly any space left for him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

You could hardly check your coat, it was so crowded. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s getting so noisy in here I can hardly hear myself think. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The nation could hardly bury its martyred Father Abraham with a lead ball lodged in his brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hardly ever been to the Kingsfield in those days, so Ruth and I had to consult the map a number of times on the way and we still arrived several minutes late. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Neolithic Revolution is the invention of farming, an event whose significance can hardly be overstated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ash stared down at the ground and perhaps, yes, there was a broken leaf, but the hoofprint was so faint that it was hardly visible. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t just fail to contribute any talk of his own; he could hardly listen to hers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mark hardly registered the fact that the people he was looking for were nowhere to be seen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Whoever it was, I knew they were buried in that place, but it was so overgrown I could hardly see the names on the stones, and it was getting dark besides. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I unfasten the wire next to the pine tree, legs like rubber, hardly holding me up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And hardly looking up, she grabbed for her paper. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We discuss this back and forth, and I hardly notice the boats spinning along the river, or the people pushing past us. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All those of us who care for the future well-being of Europe will take comfort from the fact that Mr Lewis is now - how shall we put it? - hardly the influence he once was. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He just stared at me, smiling, hardly even blinking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Matthias wasn’t sure what might be fact or fiction, but it hardly mattered. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My swings are flying wild and soon I’m hardly even jogging. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was hardly back from her tour when Chup flew over the bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even as I was receiving my degree, I realized that hardly anything I had learned at university seemed relevant in my new environment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, one could hardly believe two whole hours had elapsed when Miss Kenton looked up at the clock on the mantelshelf and said she would have to be returning home. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were almost home, and he was suddenly so tired he could hardly keep his eyes open. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

His face was so bruised and swollen that he hardly looked human. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like a million more they could hardly wait to get there and love it back. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had hardly heard the demon until the demon tapped him on the shoulder. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of it would hardly satisfy a rogue, and he could not spare any of it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And there was that trunk full of gold bars. They could hardly carry it.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hear me out,—but if I were to remove Joe into a higher sphere, as I shall hope to remove him when I fully come into my property, they would hardly do him justice.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was so battered that she could hardly think. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It hardly matters. Annabeth is very territorial about her friends, in case you haven’t noticed. She was quite worried about you. And now that you’re back, I think she suspects where you were marooned.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

My hands shook so much I could hardly turn the knob. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This is...hardly representative of how the country as a whole will respond,” she says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I hardly know you, Augustus Waters. You could be an ax murderer.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There’s not much to do, because there’s hardly any food. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t think of anything to say, but that hardly mattered. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Yet here were two white persons whom I had known hardly a day, treating me as if we had known each other for years, as if we were brothers and sisters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Covered in gauze and plaster and hardly able to move.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we all climbed into the car, our excitement was so intense we could hardly bear it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He raises one arm up high as the music’s tempo increases to a fever pitch, until I can hardly bear it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There is hardly anything left for all the chords that aren’t part of this mighty triumvirate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He could hardly remember what the school looked like. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“After our kiss, I am such a fool over you that I can hardly contain myself,” I tell him with as much sarcasm as I can muster. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The messenger the Shaper’s attendant has sent goes up to the door and has hardly knocked once when the door opens inward and the lady appears, staring through him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family's house was beige with navy-blue shutters and a matching front door, which we hardly ever used. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By now, Spot was so sick and starved I could hardly stand to look at her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I hardly think about it on the way home because Tiny keeps going on about Zach. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Over the hum of machinery, I could hardly hear my own footsteps. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tears came into Omakayas’s eyes and she could hardly see, hardly noticed when the bears wheeled and silently disappeared. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I gathered up my bag and ran along the creek toward the bridge, hardly aware I was crying. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He licks that pan clean and then hightails it outta there so fast I hardly get so much as a glimpse of him.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was so good that Laura could hardly wait for the corn to be ready, after Ma started to hull it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the others were in a stupor of exhaustion and could hardly stand. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She waited like that, hardly able to get a breath past her Adam’s apple, until she began to feel quite faint. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The pinkie is hardly ever used; whereas I often use the index finger when I want to make an important point. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I grinned back and then looked out my own window, hardly able to keep myself from giggling. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

This way of keeping a diary is much nicer, and now I can hardly wait for those moments when I’m able to write in you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“That all you got, Bert?” said Mary Poppins, and she said it so brightly you could hardly tell she was disappointed at all. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

When the money was used to pay for The Vermeer Dilemma, she was surprised but could hardly complain, given her request. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

That was what she sang as she sauntered through the woods, and her voice hardly trembled at all. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

For birds that can sail around in the air all day with hardly more than a movement of their wing tips, they sure were clumsy and awkward about getting started. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally my hands were so sore I could hardly close them over the oars. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And though I did just drop it and carry on with the discussion we’d been having, the atmosphere had gone chilly, and could hardly have helped us get through the difficult matter in hand. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so excited I hardly noticed when Miss Love left the room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I spent the next night at Phoebe's house, but I could hardly sleep. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Bringing this little boy to justice was hardly the impressive feat she needed to accomplish, but she was feeling desperate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Robin became so excited at seeing real features emerge from the piece of wood that he could hardly bear to take time to attend to his studies. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She was crying, which got me worried because my sister hardly ever cries. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Jubilee, you know I had my doubts about this rally and you getting tangled up with all these people we hardly know. Worried you’d be disappointed or hurt.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He spoke it very well, with hardly a trace of accent. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was already out of the car when the second and third screams came, and by then I knew it was Tommy, though that hardly lessened my urgency. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they expanded and the matter particles got farther apart, one would be left with an expanding universe that contained hardly any particles and was still in the supercooled state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Henry Ross was “thirty-five years of age, of a chestnut color, and well made,” and said that he had “hardly been treated as well as a gentleman would treat a dumb brute.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hardly a foregone conclusion that this is a good strategy for survival on the savannah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have too many settlers to feed, and yet hardly anyone is working to store food for the winter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I suppose one could argue that as I have not joined the Death Eaters, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named can hardly count me a friend ... in which case, I might well be safer a little closer to Al-bus.... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This could hardly be called a great event, I suppose, but it was for me an important and terrible one, and it happened almost without my knowing it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“With our heavy equipment, weapons, and thick clothes, we could hardly move.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night when he came home from work, he hardly spoke. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well...let me see, Mrs. Danvers, I hardly know; I think we had better have what you usually have, whatever you think Mrs. de Winter would have ordered.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said that he himself had been a prisoner in Orthanc and had hardly escaped, and he begged for help. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Already, she hardly believed anymore in the figure standing in the rain—until she knelt down again at the window. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She could hardly see the old man through the mist. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Father with Parkinson's, A new marriage completed, Though hardly a new mother. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly room for any of them to move, yet the rolling and pitching of the coach seemed worse rather than better for the load. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had not expected her to use his computer, because she hardly ever did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They, too, were tired and hardly had energy enough to walk. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was so taken with the automobile he hardly noticed anybody except me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Once we arrive, there are hardly any Negroes in sight. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa said hardly a word through the whole meal. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why those children hardly worked fifteen minutes out of the hour, just taking off the full spools and replacing them with empty ones. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a little shocked, because he hardly ever talks about Dada. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My jaw dropped, but Chiron hardly looked up. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few weeks of the new school year, Nadia hardly spoke. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If I had, I should hardly be likely to acquaint you with the fact. As a matter of fact I didn’t murder the fellow.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there he is, hardly any bigger now than he was in day care, and he's standing there waving his crutch up at the tree. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air close, damp, and heavy; so thick, I could hardly breathe. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first street was narrow and there were hardly any windows in the walls on each side. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly see a thing,” said Milo, taking hold of Tock’s tail as a sticky mist engulfed the moon. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arches and vaults curve, soaring so high I can hardly see where they intersect. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The clay hypothesis hardly excludes life on Mars, but it certainly carries us far enough to say that there is no compelling evidence for microbiology on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until a few days ago, Sarai could hardly have said what there was to live for, but now her hearts were full of reasons. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, everything about Diana made sense, and I could hardly believe I hadn’t figured it out earlier. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even notice when I pinched it Three SpagBols a day for nine days. I could hardly stomach the stuff after day two, but you get so hungry.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Can hardly be back before five. Which leaves us seven hours.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried to run, but they could hardly breathe. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

If Donovan Curtis didn’t measure up to Lee standards, that hardly made him stupid. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

At present it was seaworthy, but hardly habitable. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Momma made chili for dinner, and it’s just the way I like it, super spicy with hardly any beans. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I smiled, nodded, laughed at all the right places, but I hardly heard a word he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before Open Mike Fridays, I hardly knew anybody in this school at all. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the intentions of the marchers, I could hardly believe the chaos, confusion, noise, and violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly had time to pull my boxers down and sit, and that’s when it all came back to me, and I remembered Mrs. Singer’s cursing me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I can hardly breathe as I wait for her next words. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The boys had been assigned to row in the first heat, at 5:15 p.m., and in lane one, the most protected lane on the course, though with such calm water it hardly mattered. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They’d walk across the island, through the quiet green cemetery, past the foundation of the Tripp house, and then around the whole island, hardly talking, hardly needing to. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He has often taken babies that were crying from their mothers, and it would hardly be any time until he had them sound asleep or playing as happily as little ones can.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So far in the ancient lands, she’d only seen one place on her wish list: Diocletian’s Palace in Split, and even that visit had hardly gone the way she’d imagined. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And then, because she hardly knew what to say, and also to turn Digory’s mind to cheerful subjects, she asked: “Is Mr. Ketterley really mad?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I myself can hardly believe I’m here.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s not himself. His exam results came the day before you did; twelve O.W.L.s and he hardly gloated at all.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Still, you can hardly blame it on the pilot when her plane gets hit by antiaircraft fire. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was just before sunrise, that rare time when there was hardly any traffic on the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, some days I hardly saw any people so I was glad the horses knew me and would listen when I talked to them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relatives we hardly saw when Devon was here so how can they help? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I built you tents you hardly ever see. I have had so much of you around me always and I have been unable to give you anything in return that you can keep.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Neel liked hearing his mother make music again—she had been sick for so long, her temperature raging until she hardly recognized them. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly time to talk over the first letter from Enscombe before “Mr. Elton and his bride” was in every body’s mouth, and Frank Churchill was forgotten. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He had hardly shut the car door when Master drove off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The moon was hardly a scratch in the sky, but underwater lights illuminated the tiled bottom of the pool. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I filled my sack to the brim; I could hardly budge it, so people helped me carry it, marveling over how vivisima I was. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even a year between them and so close, you could hardly tell where one ended and the other started. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Blood came pouring down and he seemed both proud of himself and sorry for himself, and he selfishly hogged attention for his injury to the point where Omakayas could hardly bear it. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

That is not to say I consider I became, necessarily, a 'great' butler; it is hardly for me, in any case, to make judgements of this sort. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Swinging about, he leaped for the head of the ladder, hardly looking where he went. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since hardly anybody had actually seen what had happened, no one spoke. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The contentment of the does spread to everyone else, until one evening Hazel remarked that he felt a perfect fraud as Chief Rabbit, for there were no problems and hardly a dispute to be settled. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly had time to sit back down when he heard Ann's voice booming down the hallway as if through a bullhorn. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously he could hardly wait to reach their destination. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I looked over at Rosaleen, who I hardly recognized for the way she leaned forward in her chair, chanting along with them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Could we go now?" she asked, hardly daring to hope. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had hardly said a word since they were locked up again, but had flopped down on the pile of straw and turned his face to the wall. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could hardly see five feet in front of me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But he had hardly started when he was called away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was attentive to his surroundings and hardly limited in his physical activity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Religious mania, that's the ticket...Looking at her, though, you can hardly believe it...Suppose I'm wrong...." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He jammed his toes into the desert boots and leaped as well as he could into the tweed trousers, which he could hardly button at the waist. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in such fright I could hardly breathe. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There is hardly any desiring to refresh such a memory as that,”—said Mr. Knightley, feelingly; and for a moment or two he had done. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Students like these remain in college because they can hardly imagine doing otherwise. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I should’ve been overjoyed, but I hardly felt anything, just a spreading numbness as the trembling pain of the Feeling receded. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Harry could hardly believe that he’d left Privet Drive only a few hours ago, that he wasn’t expelled, and that he was now facing two completely Dursley-free weeks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The hallway was gray and empty, hardly more interesting than the room, but at least it was different. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to a large Man-like, almost Troll-like, figure, at least fourteen foot high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They could hardly believe they had not foundered, and they prayed they would not see another wave like that one again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was all so beautiful I could hardly believe it was real. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hardly admit starting four days after her sixteenth birthday. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Young Mr. van Daan is usually quiet and hardly makes his presence known. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then he plays with his finger against the button, making his throat whistle a tune, which he says is the theme from Star Trek, although you can hardly recognize it. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had all happened so quickly that Mary had hardly moved. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It never mattered before; prior to Independence, hardly anyone gave a thought to the large idea of a geographical Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to make apologies, which no one paid any attention to, since the soldiers could hardly know how many weapons he had purchased. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl, frightened and perplexed, could hardly muster a shake of the head. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He did not mention Papa—he hardly mentions Papa in his letters—but I knew what he meant, I understood that he was stirring what I was afraid to stir myself. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the white flowers that brushed against her white skirt, and at first he was shy and glum and hardly answered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither do they,” Alec remarked sadly, “but it hardly matters, for they don’t miss it at all.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly blame him for telling the truth. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The slightest effort, hardly more than desire, tired me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet in Havana his schedule could hardly be called restful. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Now that the trip down to Pownal was real, Turner could hardly think of much else. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But she could hardly help it if there was something so much better to do, like watching the tide come in. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I hardly know where I am when I hear about a thing like this and am completely knocked down and out. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I won’t have some man I hardly know trying to beat sense into me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Your kid hardly has any toys, and you only have one floor on your house.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

And her father hardly ever left home anymore. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mast, so called, ended hardly a few inches above my head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had hardly finished speaking before he dashed off and I saw the blue flash of his tank top. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each time the woman left Dad could hardly contain his excitement, so that finally, succumbing to either the woman’s desperation or to Dad’s elation, or to both, Mother gave way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Olanna was surprised; of course she would not find salt here; there was hardly salt anywhere. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It would hardly be worthwhile. She’d be weeks in comprehending it.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my song so well I hardly had to think about it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The scar on his cheek, you could hardly see, but it had stayed with him. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I think he was Johanna’s male counterpart from District 7, but I hardly remember seeing him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was in my math class, but he was way over on the other side of the room, and he hardly ever got up to recite or go to the blackboard or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But I’d recently turned into a cranky, disobedient girl, and so, with my dinner hardly touched, I ran to my room and slammed the door. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The thought appears in my head, but I hardly know what it means. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly speak it myself, these days—it’s been so long.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the new girl I told you about who is so shy you can hardly notice her breathing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Hamilton’s complaint—that he could hardly be expected to remember everything he had said over “the course of a fifteen year competition”—inadvertently opened up a whole new and much larger field of conflict. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Robert had hardly been seen; the talk was he was traveling in the huge wheelhouse, drunk as often as not. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was true that the situation was dire and Adina had hardly known these people. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Look at him—he can hardly stand up. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I suppose I did hear the couple rehearse a little right before the dinner ” I shook my head, hardly believing it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A voice you could hardly hear said, ‘The statement, miss.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man could hardly tell there had been a change. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could hardly wait to see the pieces after they were fired. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There are hardly fifty of us left, and those that are left are half starved and weak. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the doctor had gone we looked at one another, hardly daring to believe that our secret would be kept. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I hardly ever seen him anyways. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pot was so distracting that hardly anyone referred to the race by its actual name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But of course, that was long before her time, so I could hardly blame her for that. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When he was done, he was so stuffed he could hardly walk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve hardly seen any friends all summer, Marty. Why don’t you go down to Friendly one afternoon and ask David to come up here another?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ear’s wounds healed until you could hardly see a mark, unless he opened his ears wide, and only then with the sun behind them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He weighed hardly more than a large sack of potatoes or a full butter churn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have worked on Gaia, but for the last two nights she’d hardly slept a wink. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Soon the road became crowded with bands of party- goers until Guapo could hardly move at all. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on that leg, so that I hardly noticed when Jerome began to pull me down on our cot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the past eighteen months, my mets have hardly grown, leaving me with lungs that suck at being lungs but could, conceivably, struggle along indefinitely with the assistance of drizzled oxygen and daily Phalanxifor. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The whole thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He got out of the truck and could hardly stand up; the muscles of his legs were stiff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because she hardly ever spoke English to him, it sounded cold, distancing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to go,” he muttered, so thickly that Hazel could hardly catch the words. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor was hardly listening, wondering dimly at the movement in the room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

One woman, hardly more than a girl, had green and purple hair. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we can hardly refuse,” ventured Rachel. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she got to the Acre she was out of breath and could hardly ask the children playing in the streets where Brigid’s house might be. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was huge, and Stella could hardly imagine how many books were in there. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To this day, you can find the Great Houses of old plantations on hilltops throughout the Caribbean, and yet the strange thing is that the men who built and owned the homes hardly used them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her journey could hardly be more dangerous than his, could it? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And after a while, that name caught on with so many people that hardly anyone remembered where it came from. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My head couldn’t hardly believe what my tongue told it. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Someone said we shouldn’t be so obvious about watching, but we hardly moved back at all. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words emblazoned in the tower’s bricks are so familiar I hardly notice them anymore. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a big machine in the billiards room, but I hardly ever played the tape in there because it was always full of people. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes could hardly decide what to follow first. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I see nothing in this darkness. Alas, Lord Hamlet, I hardly know you, nor do I know myself. Good night.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By itself, the gray patty had hardly any flavor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There now seemed hardly a sound in the air. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If he was not a spy, if he was indeed Hiram Wallace, why had he come back after all these years to an island where he was hardly remembered except with contempt? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for myself, I can hardly bear to look.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly wait to see that wide-open, airy space when I got back to Spring. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So we went to Oppenheimer,” Brady recalled of one such occasion, “and Lawrence hardly finished the first sentence when Oppie said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It is one long room running almost the length of the ship, though one can hardly walk for the barrels and crates that are taking up most of the room. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The answer to this seemed, almost unquestionably, No. Not only did he behave as if he wasn’t attracted to Bunny, he acted as if he were hardly able to stand him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It is hardly as simple as that, I fear,” he murmured. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As to the Construction Department, we hardly know what to say,” the report continued. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I can hardly hear myself setting those words free into the night. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

How could she say she could see hardly anything in the morning gloom of the huge, barnlike room, the very air a soup of dust and lint? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But these were seafaring birds that could span the Pacific with hardly a flutter of the wings. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

How could the War on Drugs operate in a discriminatory manner, on such a large scale, when hardly anyone advocates or engages in explicit race discrimination? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I hardly think she will confess to showing humans the Book. In any case, I mixed a slight amnesiac into her second injection. When she finally wakes up, the last week will be a blur.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The words had hardly left him when the train started to slow down. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She hardly ever put you in detention, made you do chores or withdrew privileges. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He acts as a beast would, blindly. He's at the mercy of his own evil, and hardly knows what he does." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m her sister, Mary Lou,” the second lady said, hardly speaking any louder. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was an old wicker one of Granddaddy’s with hardly any fishy smell left. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He said it so matter-of-factly, Thomas could hardly process the meaning of the words. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She could hardly taste the cheese and the bread. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I can hardly remember him without hating him for taking his life and leaving me alone in mine. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If zero never entered their minds, it could hardly be a problem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Since I’d never made a lot of friends in Welch, I hardly ever went to the school’s football games or dances or rallies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly stand to look at Emmett’s mother, and I prayed she wouldn’t look at me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the time Bertha went inside to get a box of graham crackers for us, I was so in love with Wishbone I couldn’t hardly stand it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They both turned their little black eyes toward me—bulging with demonic light—and clawed hysterically at the bars that were hardly holding them from escape. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I was at my window, handing money across the counter to some customer I hardly knew, and it just hit me. The lake is dying. It’s dying. I had to leave.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She hardly remembered the clamor of people gathering around them and the loud cheers as Da-A-Fu told about the destruction of the Green Tiger. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was so scared I could hardly breathe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The British army was hardly marching down Wall Street, but ten ships had docked downriver on Staten Island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellowstone, I hardly need point out, is sensationally beautiful, with plump, stately mountains, bison-specked meadows, tumbling streams, a sky-blue lake, wildlife beyond counting. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My home life was also normal, but as 1 told you before, I was hardly ever allowed to leave my yard and visit with playmates. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone hardly ten yards when the bottom fell out of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down, Polly could hardly see the King and the Queen, and even Aslan himself was only a bright yellow spot on the green grass. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t even remember where I got it, but I hardly took it off. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Thanks to me and Mom, you could hardly tell there had been a Nowruz party the night before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, ladies and gentlemen, the elevator hardly ever breaks.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Thousands of dollars down the toilet, and here I am, dancing to this awful waltz with all of my boy cousins, some of whom I hardly know, most of whom don’t even like me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I hardly knew what was going on around me at school. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He still wore no shoes, which was hardly surprising, for he had always been falling over the shoelaces and tying a bow had presented him with problems. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You, an interview? I hardly think he’s recruiting librarians, boy.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her light-was hardly any brighter now than a candle flickering out. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could hardly breathe and he didn’t even sound tired. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner we were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks that had just been finished a day or so earlier—although finished was hardly the word for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put hardly any effort into it, just a twist of the hips and a flick of the shoulders, but the steel screamed against stone as it cut halfway through the solid marble column. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My mom is a very pretty woman when she has her long brown hair down, and when she smiles, which is hardly ever. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

One deflected off a car shield with hardly a dent, but the other caught a Laistrygonian in the chest, and the giant went down. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hugo could hardly fall asleep, and when he did, he dreamed about a terrible accident that occurred in the train station thirty-six years ago, which people still talked about. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

To many Brazilians, Acre seems scarcely less remote—when I first visited, a friend in Rio de Janeiro could hardly believe I was going there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And Donay,” I say, hardly able to speak, “what is a central?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many side dishes, you can hardly count them—potatoes of all kinds, and cabbage and every other vegetable, and delicious breads. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, Grandpa hadn’t hardly passed the time of day with Loma since they quarreled about her being an actress, and things got even worse between them after she disobeyed him and married Uncle Camp. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He set them on the back of a chair to dry, which, he figured, would hardly take any time in a place as hot as this. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

For a time he hung suspended, hardly breathing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Riddle jumped to his feet; Harry could hardly blame him for howling in shock and rage; all his worldly possessions must be in there. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It surprised her, which blog posts got attention and which were hardly clicked on. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Madame went on standing there, hardly moving in the low sun, her head tilted as though listening for some sound from the seafront. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you needed to illustrate the idea of nineteenth-century America as a land of opportunity, you could hardly improve on the life of Albert Michelson. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They did not look like naked people; they hardly looked like people at all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s scholarship money for college, and Desda can’t hardly read what the award says, let alone try to get into college. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

No wonder they hardly seemed to love me half the time—I couldn’t step in front of my husband to shelter them from his scorching light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry tried to tell her, but he was so exhausted he could hardly talk, let alone shout. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was hardly the calm after the storm. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They fear one thing, but it hardly matters. He’s not here.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was so scared that he could hardly talk, and Judge Swango had to keep telling him to speak up so the jury could hear. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lying there that way might not have been much of a life, but it was all the life he had, and the decision to terminate it, Yossarian felt, should hardly have been Nurse Cramer’s. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We had hardly undressed when the kid came home from school, and I heard him yell for Vivian. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure I hardly touch the pint at all with the pains. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Charles did not reply until he had received four anxious letters, and then he replied coolly, “I didn’t hardly expect you anyway,” and he went on with a detailed account of farm and animals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were looking at our hands, entwined, and he was drawing patterns along my palm, and I could hardly breathe as he left trails of fire along my skin. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But it hardly seems worthwhile,” said Milo softly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the late 1980s—this is so extraordinary I can hardly stand it—it was the only significant player in the American timber industry that was cutting down trees faster than it replaced them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We hardly discussed our meeting with Miss Emily and Madame on the journey back. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about Allen is that although he reads a lot, he hardly ever speaks. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The current was tearing into his eyes and Alex could hardly see. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And they’re hardly ever romantic, unless the man and the woman are brushing their teeth before they face lick. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

"I hardly find that necess—" I start to say, but Ivy reaches forward to squeeze my hand. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe how annoyed that made him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But anything she needed she called on me and got so bossy I couldn’t stand it hardly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"You'll hardly grass on me if you also had liberated contraband on you, would you?" Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Me, I hardly ever think about checking out. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got me a invite to preach, but I warn’t into my sermon hardly when a mean-eyed man on the front row stood up and cussed me out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If you were going to be a farmer, you could hardly choose a worse place than New England. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was positive that Edward’s defensive behavior in the hall was a confirmation of the bizarre things I still could hardly believe I’d witnessed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was my first time in London, but I was so nervous about the competition, I hardly paid attention to the world speeding by outside the taxi window. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They found him frozen by the forge, hardly daring to move as Ghost sniffed him up and down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could hardly breathe, because I knew that something bad was happening, but I wasn’t quite sure what. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This had never bothered Nick before because he hardly ever had homework. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today the two of them hardly said a word, I don’t know why. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Palmer recalled last year’s Treatment, he could hardly believe his own memory: pride, honor, little kids lining up to touch his devastated arm. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could hardly see through the tears in my eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We dozed blissfully in the scented water until we looked like prunes, and then, because we could hardly walk from the drowsiness brought on by those hot, delicious baths, we headed right to bed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, could Loser Lane possibly succeed? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We ran to the net, but it was tiny, hardly large enough for two. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He looked as though he could hardly lift the cup. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly ever sit on his lap anymore. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder why exactly, since I hardly know them, but I promise to call them when I come home for winter break. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He does everything that way, quick as a whip, hardly ever makes mistakes. I’ll bet he knows every song you’ve ever sung to him. He knows more about what’s in my wagon than I do.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He held a small cage in one hand, and inside were two flapping birds mashed so close together I could hardly tell one from the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He hardly speaks, and he never hangs with any of the brothers I know. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just saw her for a couple of minutes when I went back to get something to eat. But she would hardly let me touch my food.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could hardly manage English, much less the poetic language of a king. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

And they like being on their own and I hardly ever see them because they are like okapi in the jungle in the Congo, which are a kind of antelope and very shy and rare. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had hardly saved the Ring from the proud grasp of Boromir, and how he would fare now among so many men, warlike and strong, he did not know. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He could hardly see for the explosion, and he held one hand out to ward off whoever had shot at him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the dim red light, the draccus was hardly more than a shadow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You could hardly see them because they were just huddled in balls and had no wood for fires or torches or anything. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You’ve known him for five years and he’s hardly looked at you. He threatened to shave your eyebrows off! He’s an obstacle, Celia! One you need to remove.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I’d done to someone who would care besides my mother. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There would only be enough for a bite or two for each person, but he could hardly wait. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can hardly do that after what I just witnessed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We hardly had time to think when the cop car pulled in the alley going just as fast. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her light brown hair was always pulled back into a thin ponytail, and her pale blue eyes hardly ever connected with anyone else’s. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure your elixir is fine for keeping a body regular, but I think it can hardly be classified as medicine.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone is waiting in the lobby and she can hardly wait to get there. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She poured the honey wine for both of us, drinking hers in a series of dainty sips from a silver beggar’s cup hardly bigger than a thimble. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So, when they came across a grove of wild apple trees, Amari could hardly keep herself from shouting with joy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly heard it, he said it so quietly. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Not hardly. Come on, let me teach you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph stopped the tape, hardly able to speak. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It would be difficult,” thought Milo—but there were so many words that were difficult, and he knew hardly any of them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are mosquitoes, but I’m used to them, I hardly bother to slap them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Carol Campbell moves away and I hardly notice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The coldness numbed her fingers, and she could hardly even feel him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As a girl new to America my mother had been awarded a high school diploma by teachers too careless or busy to notice that she hardly spoke English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Their description hardly matches. I fear they might be rather startled.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had hardly finished speaking when they were summoned to the hall by the ringing of many bells. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tried to lift it up the steps but could hardly raise one end and twice he dropped it painfully on his foot. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I will not trust myself on the subject,” replied Wickham; “I can hardly be just to him.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But she hardly knew anything about their city, except that she didn’t know anyone there Shay shrugged. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Through his glasses he could hardly see anything at all. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So it's all right for you to spend six hundred pounds on a golf-club membership you hardly ever use, but it isn't all right for me to improve our property?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nowadays her father hardly gave her any change because of her mother’s disapproval. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She could hardly tell him that the Specials had released her themselves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

You could say that they hardly noticed the other swans at all.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention it was hardly a “short passage” at all. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was an air of holiday that hardly paused for a blessing over the food and that erupted full blast before the echo of the “amen” died. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pall in the house because Akira had hardly moved all day, except to wobble his head and groan softly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I guess I could stick with the line about the sandwich, but it hardly qualifies as newsworthy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As I drank, the glass shook in my hand and the water would hardly go down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know what’s going on with me because we hardly talk anymore—not about me. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The priest’s feet hardly touched the ground; he pointed his toes in an effort to support himself somehow. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It's like I'm trapped underwater or something, so weak and floaty I can't hardly fight him, can't pry his fingers loose from my mother's neck. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

After all,with Washington as president, Jefferson as secretary of state, Edmund Randolph as attorney general—he might have added Madison as dominant presence in the Congress—Virginia's interests were hardly unrepresented in the capital. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The trees clustered so close and thick that he could hardly force his way between them, and when he did, the leaves scratched his hands and his head; but this was a relief. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s room, unlike the rest of her house, is very tidy, with hardly any clutter on the floor or her desk. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Upward he bounded, up, two bounds, three, hardly slowing, until he was among the lower limbs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“One who cannot tell the difference between lilac and hydrangea can hardly speculate about such things.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here I was laid up with a bad hog cut, hurting so bad I could hardly get my breath, and her expecting me to make a big to-do over a little old puny speckled pup. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s up and at work, and the sun is hardly over the treetops. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s hardly any left, but I don’t want the glass taken away. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Dad must have been real tired, he hardly ever talked this much straight. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly feel as much of each other as I had felt when Vivian had touched my bare wrist. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You spent hours writing back to Vinny all those summers, trying to make it sound as if the girls at camp were lame, as if you were hardly having fun at all. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Taran could not be sure how close the warriors were; he knew the Cauldron-Born could hardly fail to track them, by sound if nothing else, for they no longer attempted to move silently. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was hardly more than a crevice, not big enough for a man to squeeze into. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

On his own console he dialed for a creative and fresh attitude toward his job, although this he hardly needed; such was his habitual, innate approach without recourse to Penfield artificial brain stimulation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She hardly remembered the ride back to the stables, or telling Sammy good-bye. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She remembered that Emily Dickinson’s poems hardly ever rhymed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The elderly men whose voices hardly rose above a whisper, because they were so used to being listened to, were silenced completely in the ruckus. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when Aunt Rose called to see how we were doing, I could hardly talk to her without Lily pacing and mouthing, Sophie, get off! It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was strange to be alone with him, and I realized I hardly ever was. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Luckily, my mum hardly ever comes in here.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now she had money; she had her own car; we hardly saw her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“She hardly has any room to move. If we stay under the udder, we’ll be fine.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The excitement had hardly subsided when Hannah appeared, with “Mrs. March’s compliments, and would the ladies walk down to supper.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I propose we enjoy our carriage ride in the country. It would hardly be proper to remove my coat, but if I can beg my lady’s indulgence, I will unfasten a button or two.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hardly past noon but he was issued a beer on principle, and within minutes the man was telling his story. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

You'd hardly notice it if you were in a rush, and everyone in Manhattan is always in a rush. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When everyone is gone, she looks up and meets my gaze for hardly a second, then jerks her eyes to the brown curtains, pinned tight across the window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was so excited she could hardly breathe, and a funny little pain started at the back of her neck. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He could hardly expect a slave girl to know the significance of their environs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’m so upset, I hardly see where I’m going. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found this hardly comforting, and wondered if there was not some virtue in the quality of insincerity. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get a word out of him except the most minimal directions—“up there,” “that way”—in a voice I could hardly hear. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hardly September but the fall drenches have already begun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was not, admittedly, the most subtle of strategies, but you will appreciate that this particular task, though no doubt important in its way, hardly took the highest priority at that moment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly take in what he was telling me, about how everyone he’d loved had disappeared in one terrible moment. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She spread the silk on the ground and began the process of dividing and counting, dividing and counting and setting aside, which she’d done so often as a passionate, curious teenager, and hardly ever since. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The trip had hardly started when the Rodina became surrounded by thick cloud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There was one girl named Chantelle who tried to talk to me, but she spoke so fast, I could hardly understand her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But Morse definitely suspected that whatever had happened in the Gulf, the Americans were hardly innocent bystanders. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I can hardly imagine it—my sister on the other side of the world? Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She said that Quisqueya dyed her hair, which was hardly news—I had assumed as much when I met her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“No, my lord, this is hardly, the place,” I replied, my voice sharp with rebuke. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Musicians around the Braddock could hardly move without falling over him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat for a while shuddering with horror at what he had seen, hardly believing that the still body had been a warm, living, breathing creature not long ago. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She made a bow and arrows, but hardly ever hit her targets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was so dark and scrunched he hardly looked like a person at all. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But hardly had he given the globe a single spin—he hadn’t even located Stonetown Harbor on it yet—when he heard the bell clanging outside on the stairway landing. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My legs so tired and sore I could hardly move. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

So he had hardly heard of such a world until he fell into it. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m practically twelve. Really. You can hardly tell the difference.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She keeps the smile on her face, but hardly moves. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All that walking, and we hardly got anywhere. Maybe it’s magic. It doesn’t make any bloody sense anyway.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had hardly passed us when other trees nearby started to quiver with a frightening vigor, as if someone were shaking them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tyler County hasn’t hardly got the money to investigate reports of children being kicked, Dad says, much less dogs. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headlights of cars are all painted blue, they say, and at night the city is as quiet as a graveyard: no buses, no trains, hardly any gasoline. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“When my husband died”—Jesse could hardly imagine Mrs. Myers ever having had a husband—“people kept telling me not to cry, kept trying to make me forget.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

This type of “accident” had become so common to me—sometimes the team manager would forget to include me on team emails—that I hardly blinked. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They had been locked up as if they were very precious, but they were so patched and weatherstained that their original colour could hardly be guessed: it might have been dark green. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their corpses hung limply, their faces slack or stiff or swollen with gas, unrecognizable, hardly human. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I can hardly make out the shape, but I can almost feel its tiny heartbeat in my hands. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could hardly speak; my heart was so full that even those words seemed to choke me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He could hardly move any part of his body. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The city was waking up, but the boys hardly took any notice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It hardly mattered whether I went on two miles or five miles or twelve miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly breathe as I wait for him to pick up the phone. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

With dinner about to be served, this was hardly the moment to be summoning P.C. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Voting on principles was hardly a new phenomenon, but it seemed to go a step further in 1988. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn could hardly breathe, could hardly believe he would get this chance, but he once again dropped the bag he was carrying, forced the words out: “Where’s Roza?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m developing a knack for this, I can sniff out hidden misery in others now with hardly any effort at all. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded so loudly I could hardly concentrate. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I knew from the potatoes and peas, that Kazi was going to make samosas, which he hardly ever does. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was little sign of activity in the village behind the rebel lines, for it was hardly in their interest to appear above their trenches and petty escarpments while the guns were trained upon them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“And, Momma, I can’t even picture living with you. We hardly know each other.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I look back into the emptiness of the library “They’re hardly jumping off the shelves, now, are they? I don’t think anyone else wants them just now.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And any day now, oh, you must be so excited, she’s big as a house, I bet you can hardly wait. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Most of them had guns in their hands, but there were hardly a dozen overcoats among them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hardly wait till Sunday, when I could find my flower in the Garden of Blessings and write “My family” on it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The odd thing about our Norfolk trip was that once we got back, we hardly talked about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He won’t complain to Grandma because he hardly ever talks outside of a snuffle or two. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad hardly left me with anybody at first, but sometimes their work schedules overlapped, and they needed a third person to help out. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But what with Mr. Whiskers, Perilee, the three little ones, Karl, me, and my kit, there was hardly room to breathe in that wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I could hardly breathe for the smell of incense and the mustard oil burning in the hundreds of little lamps. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were hardly talking then, sitting down to our evening meal like boarders in a rooming house, reciting the usual, drawn- out exchanges of familiar news, bits of the day. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were hints of silver in his beard and sidelocks, but he was hardly the wizened elder I had imagined. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was turned away from me, staring out the window, so I could hardly see her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, a hundred visitors a week for three campsites at the height of summer hardly seems overwhelming. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds my toes were numb and I could hardly move my fingers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very small island, hardly a man’s height above the waves at its tallest point. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As daylight flooded the cavern, Arachne’s tapestries along the walls crumbled to dust, which Annabeth could hardly bear to watch—especially the tapestry depicting her and Percy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He could hardly believe what he was seeing, and although he detested flies, he was sorry for this one. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The gussaks cheered and opened bottles to toast the mythical line, but hardly had they taken sips than the windows became white and the plane was bumping along through a summer fog. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The reporters could hardly believe their ears,” one Washington Post journalist recalled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We hardly have enough for ourselves, and you throw our food to the dogs. What can you be thinking of?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He also had a girlfriend, so, though he was once again part of our daily lives, we hardly ever saw him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The tropics will intoxicate you with the sweetness of frangipani flowers and lay you down with the sting of a viper, with hardly room to breathe in between. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re done draping the soft tan blanket over the edge of the sofa, you can hardly see the parts that don’t match. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

One short ear had been chewed clear off and his tail had been bobbed so close to his rump that there was hardly stub enough left to wag. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bird I drew when I was four hardly even looks like a bird. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weirdness hadn’t fully registered yet, but now, trying to explain it aloud, Leo could hardly believe it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Room 22 was hardly used for classes because it was so small and, even on a day like that one, hardly any light got in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley could hardly keep up with her as she snaked her way through the crowd of travelers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mam says he might be asleep in one of the carriages but we know he hardly sleeps even in his own bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Boy oh boy. You just like your daddy. Ready to fight, and I ain’t hardly said anything to you.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

No one hardly ever guessed the joke, except when it was a super-easy one we all knew anyway, like “seven ate nine.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we picked up the telegram to put on her desk, Meryl Lee and I could hardly not read it ourselves. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The pleasure boats cruised along with hardly any passengers. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officer who’d picked them up on the river—a man named Winya, with a round belly and a thin mustache—had marched them through the quiet jasmine-lined walkways with hardly a word. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When Jesse and I visited the bookstore together, I’d disappear into the science section, lost in books about quantum mechanics and space travel and theories I hardly understood but that fascinated me anyway. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

While hardly an earthshaking question, it had symbolic significance because of the obsessive American suspicion of monarchy, which haunted all conversations about the powers of the presidency under the recently ratified Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"I'm so sore. All over. I can hardly move." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Bloom waited, still unable to move, hardly thinking. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith struggles, but he is tied so tightly hand and foot that he can hardly move. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

You could run your hand from one side of the door to the next and hardly feel the lines of it at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The high dead eyelids wrinkled more, the corners of his mouth snaked up as he chuckled, sly, hardly hiding his malice. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it, it’s so awful." Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She could hardly make sense of what she was saying. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If we can’t feed ourselves, we can hardly afford to employ you, now, can we?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In ordinary circumstances, having the military in control would hardly be good news, but it felt like the best thing I’d ever heard. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He won every game, yet she hardly noticed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

While crack use was hardly a black-only phenomenon, it hit black neighborhoods much harder than most. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I could see him touching me, like I was watching a film of what was happening in the room, but I could hardly feel his hand at all. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could hardly get through a day without Mrs. Caruthers talking about their family plantation back in Virginia. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Clarice could hardly contain herself for excitement, and I, too, began to get party fever as the great day approached. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Though Petunia evidently did not understand the word, she could hardly mistake the tone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had been all but drained of familiar faces, and now, only four months after fighting had broken out between the Mujahideen factions, Laila hardly recognized anybody on the streets anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

But in his family, that would just be Matthew or Mark, and they were hardly starving. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he happened to go out now, and as Wemmick was brisk and talkative, I said to Wemmick that I hardly knew what to make of Mr. Jaggers’s manner. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I have so much excitement to share with my relatives that I can hardly contain myself. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“You—stole—her—love. You thieP” Arm was so outraged he could hardly speak. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So much money I could hardly think of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In middle school she hardly let me spend the night at any friends’ houses, even if she’d met their parents. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was one in the morning and hardly anything stirred in those wide downtown streets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures flash in an increasingly contrasty and grainy format until they are hardly recognizable. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you got the symbol reader?” said the witch, in a voice so like the high wild singing of the Aurora itself that Lyra could hardly hear the sense for the sweet sound of it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a few people, hardly any people at all.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because the old mosquito—and with it the disease—had been absent so long, hardly anyone had built up an immunity to yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

This time the voice came from so close that Milo jumped with surprise, for. sitting on his right shoulder, so lightly that he hardly noticed, was a small creature exactly the color of his shirt. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had the voice added: ‘Your breakfast is ready,’ he would hardly have been surprised. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Serving men cleared away the swan, hardly touched. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, fifty thousand would hardly make a dent in the tuition, but maybe I could get a scholarship. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had hardly replaced the lid when the handle of the other door turned, making him jump nervously. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is not a square rod of admirable, hardly one of passable, gravel-walk in all of the Exposition Ground,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By then, I was lodged in the heart of darkness, so thoroughly bent to the shape of marriage I could hardly see any other way to stand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We seldom called him “master;” we generally called him “Captain Auld,” and were hardly disposed to title him at all. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really. I can hardly remember mine. Only my aunt that kept me until I was ten. And she’s gone now.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as I sat at the lunch counter in the five-and- dime to have a root beer, I could hardly eat for keeping watch all around me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man could hardly breathe now and he felt a strange taste in his mouth. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If those classrooms held their gains while the classrooms with a suspected cheater lost ground, the cheating teachers could hardly argue that their students did worse only because the scores wouldn’t count. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

O’Brien made a small impatient gesture, as though to say that the demonstration was hardly worth making. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The fact that I'm hardly allowed to read anything was also discussed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was hardly room for the diners’ own bowls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Boy howdy, I cain’t hardly wait to see that fancy Texas saddle on him!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure deduces what she can from the sounds of their shoes: those are small, those weigh a ton, those hardly exist at all. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Father hardly ever hit me, but he hit Sam dozens of times, mostly for arguing. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly anyone else about, so I could see an unbroken line of wet paving stones stretching on in front of me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s funny, but I hardly feel tired when I get up at six. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Looking at it below, she could hardly believe that it had been so cruel as to sweep Papá away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And that was enough encouragement for him—I hardly ever rewarded him with food. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were hardly out of town before we were both slumped half-asleep in the seat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He lives entirely in the past. But entirely. He hardly ever even watches television, unless you’re on. And don’t laugh, Zooey. It isn’t funny.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The way Andrea spoke, it was as if she hardly noticed if her parents were naked or not. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that a composer like Schubert should be attracted to poetic texts that placed emotions in the relative safety of natural metaphor. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you were interested in clothes at all, you could hardly help going in to see them closer. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m not involved with Barbara. I hardly know her. I don’t think we’ve exchanged more than a dozen words in our lives.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I could hardly wait to learn more about her. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Jonas, they have no interest. Look at us. Were hardly glamorous,” said Mother, wringing water from her hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When you hardly had anything, even a lowly rubber band could fill you with feelings. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could hardly bear to look at all the misery. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was so dark in the bar I could hardly make out anything except Doreen. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The grave was extremely old, weathered so that Harry could hardly make out the name. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

More corridors, and Lyra was tired by now, so sleepy she kept yawning and could hardly lift her feet in the woolly slippers they’d given her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When Diego kissed me, I could hardly believe it was real. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

To be sure, despicable is hardly a compliment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For his part, Fraser doubts the daughter library contained copies because “duplicates are hardly likely to have been subject to a careful count.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He also brought a big plate of shrimp, which I love but hardly ever get to eat because it’s real expensive. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A fine green mold spread over the books and papers and paintings that were stacked so high and piled so deep you could hardly cross the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The letters were squeezed together so you could hardly read them. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The chapel hardly breathed as he sighed deeply. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Argus hardly ever shows up unless something really major is going on. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom during lunch, I can hardly stand to stay in my stall. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But they both said I did a really good job, and that they were proud of me, and that my voice hardly shook at all. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They d been stuck up there so long, they hardly glowed anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Jokes like “Oh, don’t worry, they can’t all fall on him” or “One bomb is all it takes” are hardly appropriate in this situation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She knew that Sir Lancelot was going to his son by another woman—but she hardly minded that. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, Marco hardly has time for me, even though he claims I’m his woman, his one and only. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said that I would; that my father might be wondering where I was hardly crossed my mind. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Celia fears that the citizens of Santa Teresa del Mar once again will consider the court as hardly more than occasion for a live soap opera. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dont know. We going to have thirty three candles on a cake, anyway. Little cake. Wont hardly hold them. Hush up. Come on back here.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hardly morning, but already the room was sweating hot. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Though I’d hardly consider your valiant rescue to be entirely discreet.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That is hardly the attitude of some veteran summer residents, who find comfort in the thought that they can occasionally be fogged in without worrying about the office. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he woke again he hardly knew where he was. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The heat dried her eyes so much she could hardly make anything out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, Father, I am so stirred up by the thought of my first military duty—even if it is only reviewing border troops—that I hardly hear my good mother. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean Boyd sang the solo for “O Holy Night,” and I hardly flinched when she went flat on the first “shining.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We could hardly wait to get them the following week. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was bare-headed and his fair hair was encircled with a very thin band of gold, hardly thicker than a wire. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“This is a whim of mine it would give me great pleasure, though I can hardly tell why,” Emma wrote to Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly get the name past my trembling lips. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As for Lola, she didn’t wish to dirty her cashmere by lying on the floor, and instead slumped in a chair, and the director could hardly object to that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

You hardly ever saw the eagle—a pair of them lived nearby—let alone heard one. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her heart was thumping so much she could hardly hear the first words of his reply. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't get hardly anything out of anything. I'm in bad shape. I'm in lousy shape." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was breathing so hard he could hardly speak. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly any communication between us the first evening, but the second night would be different. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For days Malachy s tongue is swollen and he can hardly make a sound never mind talk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t travel now anyway. I’m so sunburned I can hardly move.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I can hardly get the sledgehammer up over my head, and when I bring it down, my arms is so wobbly my aim ain’t true. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so weak that I could hardly stand. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cholly edged around to where they stood, hardly believing he was at the end of his journey. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day when she was hardly more than a child she was gathering crocuses on a cliff where there was a deep cave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, at the market, or in the park, I’d notice how other people hardly seemed to even see him, like he wasn’t there at all. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve hardly finished giving one answer before she asks another, without pause or hesitation. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When lunchtime came I could hardly force myself to eat, although of course I did, so nobody would suspect anything. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said to Mom, who had hardly said a word to me all the way home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was hardly a light on in the whole vast house, and once or twice Meggie bumped her knee on a chair or a little table that she hadn't seen in the gloom. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I settled close to Kevin, relaxing, letting go of tension I had hardly been aware of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

With hardly a word between them, hardly even a glance, the boys slipped into their beds. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of radioactivity on health was hardly unknown—not least because of widespread press coverage of the poisoning of working women at U.S. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I ate and slept, but hardly spoke to the other girls in my room or to the boys who slept in another part of the house. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After every skunk killing, Old Yeller would get so sick that he could hardly stand it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood grew hap-hazardly a century or so ago and today looks hardly urban at all. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Satisfied, she grunted, and told the maid to serve ‘the little master.’This young girl was hardly older than Cilia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m hardly ever by myself in the apartment because Amá is always all up in my business and won’t leave me behind. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Despite my nervousness—and the speed with which I ate—I could hardly believe how rich and fine it tasted, filled with savory things I had never eaten and could not name. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up at her, my mind hardly attending to what was coming out of my mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mama told me she had seen her go up the hollow from the house, so weak she could hardly stand. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I’ve hardly seen you since we got back from winter break!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The day was brief, hardly a day at all. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was falling so thick we could hardly see the street at the far end of the schoolground. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hardly hold a thought in my head, but I kept going. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I made vague assurances, but I could hardly wrap my mind around what was happening at this moment, much less in the future. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He came by a lot less and then hardly at all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly believe I get to keep wearing my armband and stay on the track team. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“I hardly saw you the last time I was there.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But then, the next thing I knew, I was sitting in the dirt on the side of the road crying so hard I couldn’t hardly breathe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She hardly ever wore a hat, but that beret looked nice. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The Professor tells me that this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotise me at all, and that all I could say was: “dark and quiet.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We live high up in the hills above Friendly, but hardly anybody knows where that is. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hardly think we need new fixtures, Léonce. Don’t let us get anything new; you are too extravagant. I don’t believe you ever think of saving or putting by.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The fact that the meaning of race may evolve over time or lose much of its significance is hardly a reason to be struck blind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a matter of weeks Richard Parker became constipated and his bowel movements came no more than once a month, so my dangerous janitoring was hardly worth it from a sanitary point of view. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We hardly notice how ubiquitous our stuff is until we have to move it to a new house. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rail was lurching so violently, I could hardly keep hold of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Another one dead? By Meshe’s guts, and not hardly winter yet.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

You told your friends to watch while you put the moves on me…and then I hardly responded. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He was even thinner than usual and hardly made a lump under the threadbare sheet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I rooted again, but there was hardly anything in the pack—a map, a light sweater, a water bottle, and a packed lunch. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their legs were tied together so that they could hardly hobble, and their hoofs were cruelly overgrown, so that they looked like rams’ horns or curly skates. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can hardly keep up,” Grover admitted one afternoon as we were taking a break at the canoe lake. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was the polite thing to say; still, I felt strange asking about the cousins I hardly knew. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile hardly altered, which is to say it did alter, slightly. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

By suppertime I was feeling so frightened and miserable that I could hardly eat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The capsules moved so slowly they hardly seemed to move at all. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lady Catherine de Bourgh,” she replied, “has very lately given him a living. I hardly know how Mr. Collins was first introduced to her notice, but he certainly has not known her long.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

It hardly seemed worth taking the chance that their families could end up utterly destitute. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a pretty crummy hotel, and there weren’t enough sheets, and there was hardly any gravity, and no one had a fake ID so they put a lock on the minibar. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swelled and ached to the point where I could hardly read or keep them open for long, especially in light. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although each of those systems used distinctive sets of signs not borrowed from Egypt or Sumer, the peoples involved could hardly have been unaware of the writing of their neighboring trade partners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly wait for the day when these plans will be realized.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe it was me, Melba Pattillo, sitting on a stage in that elegant gold room with its stately place in America’s history. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He popped the cap off the bottle with his pocketknife, then chugged the entire beer without hardly taking a breath. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“That is hardly my problem. I don’t drive.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would hardly guess it, but Mr. Wheeler is no little Flutist, and played us all Tunes while we rallied him on the droll Faces he makes when he blows. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought I was the lazy one,” Theodora said complacently through the door, “but you’re much, much worse. Lazy hardly begins to describe you. You must be clean enough now to come and have breakfast.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The dagger doesn’t always show what I want to see. In fact, it hardly ever does.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The charred walls were hardly visible, camouflaged as they were by the spurge, brambles, and wild thyme that had taken root among the soot-blackened stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The first snow of the year was just beginning, the flakes so light that they hardly fell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t throw any more passes that night, but it hardly mattered. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilly had it appraised a few years ago and found out it wasn’t even a ruby, just a garnet, hardly worth anything. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Either of these is correct: She can hardly see without her glasses. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, I hardly think...” she began, and then suddenly, and unbelievably she turned upon me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“That was only a joke, Sticky. I’m hardly a queen, you know, and I’m not from England. I was born in a country called Zambia and brought here to Stonetown when I was a child.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at him as if unused to consideration, hardly credulous, almost suspicious. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad is more open, but he can’t tell me what I really want to know, like why Mom hardly speaks to Abuela or why she still keeps her riding crops from Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ida's boat stayed behind like a shadow, hardly more than a black speck against the dark outline of the shore. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the last days of Bobby’s life he was becoming more frail and could hardly speak, nor could he keep down any food. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So little food remained that it was hardly worth dividing. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The trees were so thick that we hardly ever got views, and when we did get views it was of infinite hills covered in more trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The placid composure of his face was so profound that he seemed hardly to be aware that Singer was with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s been rough for you, Henry, I know, but you can’t do this. You’re flunking three classes, getting into fights. I hardly see you because you’re always locked in your room.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Lonely? I’ve hardly had a quiet moment since arriving. Stop being a reporter and let’s eat. Besides, there are people in the city who are lonelier than I.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take a few hours to wire it up, but that's hardly a concern. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment she learned Sarai had fallen, she had stretched her senses to their limits, waiting, hardly breathing, alert to the telltale skim of passing ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The surcoats, which had originally served as covering to armour, were long behind and high in front You could hardly walk for fear of tripping over your sleeves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t hardly get through the kitchen without her saying that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Some little cans of things from France. Mushrooms and liver paste and sardines so little you can hardly see them.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When May died, Ob and me had to talk business with the funeral parlor, religion with the preacher, and make small talk with dozens of relatives and people we’d hardly ever seen before. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

They never go out anywhere, and when they’re home, they hardly even talk to each other. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A little faint trail, skinny as anything, hardly even there, leading away from the first turn of the road and toward the falls. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Laura’s heart was beating so fast that she could hardly climb the steps. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The luxuriant growth of the mustache was all the more peculiar because the overseer had hardly any hair on his head. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly see Father as he continues to explain. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

From then on, hardly a party took place without me turning up—inviting myself, if I had to—and lindy-hopping my head off. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The room was as white as all the others, but hardly bare. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I could hardly move before; with the Cong in the hole I couldn’t move at all. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, Fuchs had been a Communist back in his col- lege days, but that was hardly proof he was a Soviet spy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s head was in such a whirl of weariness and fear that she could hardly think, but “Yes? Yes?” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly ever spoke to them, if he could help it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cities are large and memorably crowded in India, but when you leave them you travel through vast stretches of country where hardly a soul is to be seen. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had hardly sat down, when there came a soft knock at the front-door. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sam’s mind was occupied mostly with his master, hardly noticing the dark cloud that had fallen on his own heart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. Sure do. Store-bought clothes ain’t hardly worth the thread it take to stitch them.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amanda was hardly finished when Maniac zipped across the room and stuck out his hand. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly contain their excitement till they got inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so little sag, she could hardly tell Akira lay above her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even for men accustomed to a hard life in a terrifying ocean, they could hardly believe what Shackleton and his men had endured. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He looked as if he was about to fall over, as if he could hardly pick up his feet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It hardly mattered what she studied, as long as she was learning. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You had to resort to tripping me. That’s hardly winning at all.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

While Bertha talked a blue streak and hardly ever sat still, Gus was quiet and easygoing, with a calm, slow way about him. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He cries because his tongue hurts and he can hardly talk and it’s terrible when you can’t talk. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“As yet, I am as one standing on a wreck and can hardly see when we shall be afloat again.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She spoke so sweetly that Ged hardly heard her words, moved by the promise of her voice alone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On that October Monday in 1937, as search crews struggled to reach the plane wreck, Elizebeth could hardly take in what had happened. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the composition of the household workforce is hardly fixed and has changed with the life chances of the different ethnic groups. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at once Malcolm began to regret not having rolled back more of the tarpaulin: he could see hardly anything ahead. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I need hardly point out that when he did get one it tended to be good. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But most cells died quickly, and the few that survived hardly grew at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was hardly any time left; now was the moment to decide: Horcruxes or Hallows? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Traveling close to the speed of light you would hardly age at all, but your friends and your relatives back home would be aging at the usual rate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paid no mind to the traffic lights, since there were hardly any cars on the streets. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I found a hazelnut buttercream, I could hardly chew it for laughing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

When I tried to push him away, he hardly seemed to notice. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And? It doesn’t have to be permanent. You spent a month of your gap year talking to yaks in Mongolia, H. It’s hardly unprecedented.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In those terrible months after Dad died, the twins had hardly ever left her side. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

They hardly spoke to one another, except to point to a tool or to a sign of disease in a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry strode confidently out from the wings, looking so handsome I could hardly believe he was the same boy who’d been staring up at his ceiling, wracked with grief, only an hour before. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The wound in my shoulder throbs, but I hardly feel it through the pulse of adrenaline. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly got any sleep because at the end of the day, after taking care of the clocks and working at the booth, he would stay up until dawn working on the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Since Javier returned home, Celia has hardly thought of Felicia, who has been missing since winter, or of the twins or of Ivanito, away at boarding school, or of the faraway Pilar. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could hardly go anywhere without hearing talk of the upcoming tournament. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Master and Madam both filled up on the onion pie and hardly touched the fresh-baked bread. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like there’s a tank truck sitting on my chest; can’t hardly breathe. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited, hardly breathing, to see who would round the corner. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But she had hardly finished the sentence when the sparrow fell to the ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exhibition was rather a success, and masters who had hardly ever spoken to me over the past four years would come up and say things like, ‘It’s quite extraordinary’ . Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were hardly any of them in Connecticut. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two children that were hardly more than babies shared a blanket on the stone floor, and another was curled up in a pile of rags. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ben could hardly shut up the whole way home. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I smiled to myself and thought, Miss Diana Ross wasn’t hardly digging any ditches in her sparkly gold pants. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was hardly worth discussing the matter in advance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So slow, so quiet, hardly a baby cried. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We sharpen their ears to the malicious, hardly audible buzz of the smaller shells that are not easily distinguishable. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he comes downstairs to get me, but that’s awkward too, because in spite of all his precautions his face turns bright red and he can hardly get the words out of his mouth. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The telephone system hardly worked, and it did not seem worth the effort to call any doctors to tell them that he was coming. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last, unfinished line gave no clue at all, and the first seemed pointless, as it hardly seemed necessary to tell them they needed to keep their eyes open. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a month my thinking processes had so changed that I was hardly recognizable to myself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watson could hardly wait for Crick to walk into the office. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

By midday her arms ached, and she could hardly push the vacuum over the thick rugs. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Grandpa just couldn’t hardly stand to watch a woman cry. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Gawaine had hardly been the sort of person you thought of as a writer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hardly keep her mind on her work. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I am finished, though hardly exhausted by the effort, I meet Melissa, who is, with only a couple of weeks on the job, pretty much my equivalent. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate her because she is always bumping into my boat,” continued the man, “and because her owner is a lazy boy who doesn’t understand sailing and who hardly knows a squall from a squid.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We hardly know them. I’m sure Milo is quite nice.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Already the whole class had begun to warm towards Miss Honey, although as yet she had hardly taken any notice of any of them except Matilda. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby had taught himself, after years of practice, to budget his time and he hardly ever drifted into time pressure. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I hardly know what to think anymore. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you. I know what I’m feeling is wrong, but I just...Well, I guess I just wondered...” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"I can still hardly believe you made all this happen for me." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We all watch as it pops between his palms, his hands hardly moving, as if he’s making it jump with his mind. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At any rate when suppertime neared, she said to him, “Do you want to set the table or get Mr. Randolph?” and he answered with hardly a stutter, “Get Mr. Randolph.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Second, that conglomeration of half-nailed boards could hardly be called a tree house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He hardly spoke Igbo, and although Jaja and I spoke it with Mama at home, he did not like us to speak it in public. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the food carts were open for business, but there was hardly anyone around. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I can hardly recall a time when Caroline was not playing the piano well enough to accompany herself while she sang. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Iofur bounded forward a step or two, as if he could hardly hold himself back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s hardly my place to prevent you from trying to recover it,” she says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her words were hardly out—and the song had not yet finished—when there was a loud pop and a sudden silence. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Your mother would hardly bear it if I should tell her, but I will not. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The President was slightly disconcerted: Mrs. Coulter’s eyes were heavy with sleep, and she could hardly see in the glare from the corridor light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chattana had more canals than streets, and in a few months, when monsoon season hit, it would have hardly any streets at all. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had hardly put a morsel to his lips when the hateful monsters darted down from the sky and in a moment had devoured everything and were flying off, leaving the intolerable odor behind them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of his steel seemed to hardly diminish the grace and quickness with which Ser Loras moved, his rainbow cloak swirling about him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She hardly ever went to worship, and Lord knew when she read, it wasn’t just the Bible. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because when the Blob comes and wraps us tight in his arms, holds us so close we can hardly breathe, that is when we can finally put our arms around him. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

That’s why, when I heard what I heard on the earphones—well, I didn’t hardly believe it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Lancelot were hardly more than children when it began, and the King was about eight years their senior. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So even though the wok trembled in my sweaty grip, even though I could hardly breathe for the fear gripping my chest, I charged. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly remember not knowing you. It’s hard to remember the days before you. I don’t even know if there were yy any. “My memory is like that, too,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The mayor of New York is a supremely important man, could well be the next Royal governor. It is hardly appropriate to welcome him into our home without offering refreshment.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl walked up the stairs so quickly that Victor hardly got a chance to look around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We had hardly begun to cook when the smoke alarm went off. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a soft blow, all in all, a little flick of the wrist, with hardly any force behind it It did not even leave a mark upon her cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They unearthed frogs that were still in hibernation and so groggy they could hardly move. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands shook so hard I dropped my stick and my knees were so weak I could hardly walk. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My quiet, unassuming father, whose voice could hardly be heard in church, stood there in his oilskins, his rubber-gloved hands on his tongs, and sang to the oysters. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went two or three miles further, and the orc-hold was hidden from sight behind them; but they had hardly begun to breathe more freely again when harsh and loud they heard orc-voices. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They say hardly a wedding or birth takes place without at least one in attendance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, Esperanza had written in her book on the land of Opium. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even raising his eyebrows was difficult, for his forehead was stiff with dried clay And he was so exhausted that he could hardly bear the thought of wheeling the now-heavy cart back to Min’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter much because there was hardly any milk in it anyway. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

And he touched the tree, hardly knowing that he touched it, out of an impulse to be hidden; and then he cried: “Oh, Lord, have mercy! Oh, Lord, have mercy on me!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A week passed in which I could hardly drag myself to my job, an internship at a law firm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He went skimming over the earth like some magical hop-skip-and-jumper with his feet hardly ever touching the ground. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunlight was soft and feathered, hardly skimming the forest floor because the trees were so thick and tall. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She would ride on the river— she could hardly believe it—and it might take her to the shining city she had dreamed of, or it might drown her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could hardly believe that Dumbledore would not have intervened if such cruelty was happening inside his own house, and yet there was undoubtedly something odd about the story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I stared at him because J.T.’s family hardly ever went anywhere, on account of their chicken farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stood frozen next to the window, hardly breathing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had been beaten, he whispered to her, and he could hardly walk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I watched Matant Jo just shake some salt and pepper onto it and wondered what else she was planning on doing to it since salt and pepper is hardly enough for a whole turkey. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She takes the three old coats from our bed and piles them on the pram till you can hardly see Alphie at all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

With hardly a rustle of leaves, the ape- man leapt live out of the trees and blocked her way. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what’s what and it’s all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she’s a vegetarian. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was bright and cheerful, with sky blue walls and so many windows, they hardly needed to use the overhead lights during the day. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He’s so old. He’s like twenty-two years old. Denise said he’s hardly eaten in two days. And that thing growing out of his head—well, it can’t be comfortable.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He bowed to Min and begged his leave for a short moment; Min waved him off, hardly seeming to hear him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“He had a badly bruised face,” said I, recalling what I hardly knew I knew. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she said, “you gentle him for me. He hardly hits me at all when you’re here. And he never hits you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I am confused now and hardly know what my impression is, but I have considerable hopes.... Every word about her is precious.... Except at post-time my sufferings are nothing to yours,” she told her husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can’t step directly into a cold stream of water, it’s too shocking, too brutal, but if you get there gradually, you hardly notice it; it’s like boiling a frog in reverse. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to search her books for a suitable mother, but there were hardly any mothers in her favorite stories. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It means something needs to be released. And if you don’t release the something, it just weighs you down until you can hardly move.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Be still,” she said—hardly more than a whisper, but it carried across the crowd. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette or something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I can hardly hear myself think over the cheering. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For each one of you there are dozens of young people who can hardly write their names. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I supposed he was thinking: there might be someone there, they could hardly hear from here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This way was not much used, being hardly fit for carts, and there was little traffic to the Woody End. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But these friends didn’t live near us, so he hardly ever got to hang out with them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Yossarian felt terrible; he could hardly bear to look at Nately’s battered countenance, even though the sight was so comical he was tempted to guffaw. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He could hardly see now for his tears. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear could hardly believe it; he would almost rather have Min shouting at him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dwayne’s been talking about getting married since we started dating. He can hardly stand it, but I’m fixin’ on graduating first. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s hand found his glasses and he shoved them on, though the light was so bright he could hardly see anyway. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

So much was happening that I could hardly keep up with it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I scramble to my feet, saying “Excuse me” loudly so the other people in the carriage will hear, but there’s hardly anyone in here and no one looks around. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was going every which way beneath them, and the wind was a storm blowing so bad, they could hardly control their wings. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Further up, where she hardly dared look, were the exposed muscles around his eye socket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

By this time Will was hardly surprised by anything, and he said, “I don’t know. We can’t see them. No, wait!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kick the bladder up and down the meadow till there are holes and rags start falling out and we get fed up kicking a bladder that’s hardly there anymore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, his decision had yielded an unforeseen dividend: in this moment of crisis, he could hardly be dismissed before he got his degree. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Although both were unshaped, formless things, Nel seemed stronger and more consistent than Sula, who could hardly be counted on to sustain any emotion for more than three minutes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was hilarious, because you could hardly understand what he said anymore. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have quite forgotten that there are such things, and even now we hardly believe our eyes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cut trees, cane; plowed till he could hardly lift his arms; plucked chickens and cotton; hauled lumber, grain, quarry rocks and stock. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But they don’t have hardly any meat on them.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had hardly gotten used to the idea of being a Spare; now she’d have to deal with whatever the impossible task would be. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But that was hardly possible unless he abandoned Penny. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was hardly her fault that Aunt Hermione had run off with some toad who delivered fireside sermons on the wireless every week. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A state of greater wretchedness could hardly be imagined. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“To profess what?” asked the King of the Moat slowly, hardly opening his jaws and speaking through his nose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The machines are more ... efficient near freezing. I wear a coat and hardly notice,” said Felicia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly ever see Summer during the day, since the only class we have together is English. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The plants were hardly more than a gray-green shadow, and a gentle mist wafted up from sprinklers in the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judd hardly lets him finish; starts off across the muddy yard in his boots. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trail had been fashioned with large, flat rocks, inlaid into the ground, and fitted so close to one another that the seam between them could hardly let in a piece of paper. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I read that the male okapi is smaller than the female, and more shy, and that hardly anything else is known about them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begin to throw in words I hardly understand myself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We hardly broke a sweat, Hassan and I, when we hiked up the hill just north of Baba’s house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still in his pajamas, he managed to climb up on it but was hardly settled when he saw a hand sticking up out of the molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Wynn shuffled around, hardly lifting his eyes from his freshly shined boots. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Before the night was over, hardly one storefront window was left intact. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s not that difficult. You hardly have to practice at all.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’d hardly ever talked to my father, much less gotten a compliment. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I can hardly remember now what it was all about, but I was a total mess then, having just split up with Salim’s dad and not yet having discovered Transcendental Meditation. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

About thirty people had turned up, but he hardly recognized any of them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was hardly a day that he didn’t tip me off to some new website or evolving phenomenon like the rise of the MP3 online music movement. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When morning came, Mama hardly had the fire going before they all began to pack. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Malcolm could hardly hear it over the rain hammering on the canopy. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

None of the Negroes milling around have weapons, which is hardly a surprise, but if what the sheriff says is true, everyone needs to be armed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Enveloped by comfortable circumstances, Siddhartha hardly noticed their passing. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully there was no one there, but oh—I can hardly bear to think about it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The pictures came out so beautifully that Helen hardly knew which of them to frame, and finally had two of them done, professionally, as well as his diploma. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sound you hardly noticed, but would miss if it stopped. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako could hardly hold her head up because Mama was clutching her braid. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She hardly cared when she was grabbed by one of the strangers. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep came hard, even when Daario came back, so drunk that he could hardly stand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They confessed to all sorts of creative sins, and Jorge was so pleased that he hardly ever punished them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now my mouth can hardly make the words. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Look. I came, didn’t I? Don’t start pushing me before I’m hardly off the plane. My god, I’ve been gone thirteen years, and you still think you can tell me what to do.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

"This is the first time we've feasted off the king's own table, and there's hardly enough for me and Billy." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

We did this until our backsides were so sore we could hardly sit down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mattress was firm and comfortable and I lay without moving, hardly breathing, happy in feeling the pain lessen. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was hardly more than a footpath, just a few feet wide, so the soldiers who’d been riding alongside us had to park their jeep and walk, one in front and two behind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But now that I’m back here I can hardly walk down a street without a glimpse of her, turning a comer, entering a door. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he had hardly begun to touch it when he stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“May you prosper too,” I whispered, hardly able to speak, for his words had left me defenceless. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had hardly thought about it. They arrested me—it could be two days ago—perhaps three.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But maybe—Prosper could hardly bear the thought—maybe Scipio would send him and Bo away. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We could not go fast because of the ice, but we drove relentlessly, hardly glancing at the passing of Texas beside us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I hadn’t grown accustomed to. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Shears said, “This flat is hardly big enough for two people, let alone three.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For though he continued screaming, I could hardly hear him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing it, the preacher could hardly keep his mind on how good Granny had been or how it was God’s will and all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It is hardly consoling to remember such a feeling, and so it deadens in our minds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slurred even when he was sober, which was hardly ever. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There are no potholes, no bumps, no double-parked cars—hardly any cars. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It hardly seems like there would have been time for them to make such a momentous decision, and I can’t imagine them choosing to leave me behind. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The suit,” he said, his voice hardly above a whisper. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

That and the ammonia smell from the chicken waste was so strong you could hardly breathe. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were hardly any other Black students at my elementary school, and besides, I had Isabella and Julia. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When it came my time to draw, my hand was shaking so hard I could hardly get it in the box. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hand is still shaking so much I can hardly hold my pen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bird I drew when I was four hardly even looks like a bird. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orders already issuing from the telescreens, recalling them to their posts, were hardly necessary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But I was hardly allowed to complain about that because, guess what. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I hardly ken, sir. I've never had the chance to find out." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

They and the university still formed some center to his universe, but only as a point of origin; he hardly ever saw anyone anymore. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in that truck with nothing but the mountain in front of me, I was so scared I could hardly breathe. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Their recovery times have been impressive, and hardly any of them have been classified as “agitated,” even before fourth donation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could hardly wait to get to the park to see if old Phoebe was around so that I could give it to her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

At the very rear, so far away that they could hardly be seen, were the percussion instruments, and lastly, in a long line up one side of a steep slope, were the solemn bass fiddles. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the detailed evidence Cicero has brought against him, he can hardly stay, but if he goes, he is condemned by his own actions. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Peering down at the ground passing below, Tally could hardly make out anything in the weed- choked darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now, whenever Annabeth made a sarcastic comment, Rachel hardly bothered to answer. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

All I had to fight back with was a pick and shovel, and I was so tired I could hardly lift either of them to defend myself. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had hardly laid themselves on the deep beds and drawn the light covers over them before they were asleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lyra watched, hardly daring to breathe, and squeezing her hands together so tight it hurt. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The chains I was aiming at burst apart like a toy balloon—could hardly believe my luck. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Money, though not as scarce as at Trotter’s, was hardly in the supply hinted at in the letters to W.E. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ever since Mom had gotten promoted in June from part-time education associate to director of education, she was hardly ever home. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

McCandless was hardly unique; there’s quite a few of these guys hanging around the state, so much alike that they’re almost a collective cliche. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was terrifying at first, but at least there was hardly any traffic on the river to worry about. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Not all classes were like this, but even in accelerated courses the classroom at Permian was hardly a hotbed of intellectual give-and-take. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands were so stiff, I could hardly move them; death loomed closer here. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lit countless candles and the crystal shimmered so beautifully that Hornet could hardly take her eyes off it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We can hardly see him, but the sound of his knife against the wooden trunk is crystal clear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew it to be half full, but suddenly it felt much lighter, as if there was hardly any water left in it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her next words she stabbed him to the heart “You will be staying for good now,” said she, hardly as a question. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hardly wait to see Sir Lancelot’s face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It hardly seems fair,” I whispered, my face still resting on his chest, listening to his breath come and go. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And you wouldn’t have favorites either among your own children or among the other creatures or let any hold another under or use it hardly?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Celaena hardly had the sense to lean her head away from the approaching stones, and the impact burst through her side and shoulder. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Iris- message images were going so fast I could hardly understand them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But in that kind of way, I thought hardly anything about the girl. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo was just yielding to the temptation to lie down again when a dark shape, hardly visible, floated close to one of the moored boats. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe there was a time she was anything but a friend to me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was so pretty Johnny could hardly think where all this prettiness came from, and sourly he thought it came from Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was lying on a cot, hardly able to move, her dysentery had drained her so thin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jews are hardly allowed to work anywhere anymore. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While I thought this was pretty impressive, my friends, some of whom had traveled Europe in a sideshow with Miss Peregrine, could hardly stifle their yawns. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I, in my high perch, heard these words, I could hardly believe them: I was being accused of a theft I had not done. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The man could hardly be a runaway slave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Already I m so numb, I can’t hardly feel a thing from the neck down. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Link spun again, and while he kissed this other girl, really hardly at all, Calista was still talking to Quendy, saying, in this really mean voice, “And don’t let anyone tell you you look stupid.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly talk, my pleasure was too intense; he caressed my cheek and arm, a bit clumsily, and played with my hair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She could hardly imagine the punishment given someone who had done something bad enough to be worth five hundred thousand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I can hardly read or write because nothing will stay inside my brain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She lay curled on her side, hardly moving, silent except for an occasional whimper. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly speak, so I nodded yes, and she said, “Let’s get out of here.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing better about the rematch was that hardly anyone I knew was there to see it; I was particularly grateful for Reginald’s absence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hardly have a functional hospital in our borders, or a passable road outside Kinshasa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some nights he could hardly bear to be chained up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But you could hardly ask a fellow to hunt up a few beasts of venery for you, and then not invite him to the meet. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imet, hardly more than a boy, who never sang and killed swiftly without tears. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sat at the high table as a dish of onion soup cooled before him, hardly tasted, staring at the flame of the nearest candle with those hooded eyes, ignoring the talk around him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t take it. I hardly come in here.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

This scheme, it is hardly necessary to say, is a mere daydream, impossible of realization. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You hardly ever leave except to go to the tiny beach.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was one of those moments that come from outta nowhere, when you all of a sudden feel something reach inside your chest, grab your heart, and squeeze ’til you can hardly breathe. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dari raised his pointer finger to his lips and held it there as we tiptoed through the lobby, moving so slowly we hardly moved at all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When it was all put together and painted, with a cardboard vulture’s head and cobra glued to the front, it looked so impressive they could hardly believe they’d made it themselves. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly it just hangs there in the background, hardly visible, hardly registering in my mind. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Now, he could hardly wait to begin something else. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I had never been able to say goodbye, and now that we were reunited, I could hardly even speak. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This man, his wife and son have hardly spoken to me, but they’re family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a very short man, hardly taller than Harry and Hermione. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It's so dark I can hardly see my feet, or maybe I got some dirt in my eyes, but the point is no one sees us because there's no one to see us. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Largely because of that, he and Joe had hardly ever exchanged two words, at least not civil words. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I can hardly count the letters I’ve received saying that my journey through Central High School inspired the letter writers to stand up for their rights. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The other inhabitants of Shell Cottage could hardly fail to notice that something was going on now that Harry, Ron, and Hermione only emerged for mealtimes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I took it out of the nest box really carefully and put it in the fridge like Agnes said to, even though I could hardly wait to scramble it and eat it for breakfast. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

My throat swelled till I could hardly get my breath. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When it was finally time for me to go to classes, I was so excited I could hardly contain myself. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were only two other passengers—a man and a woman who seemed to be married, though they hardly spoke to each other. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not really elegant, but he’s hardly ever sad. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The next day, people streamed into Harken Square from all four directions, crowding together so close that each person hardly had room to move. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Five people who watched each other, who now hardly troubled to hide their state of nervous tension. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He's like fuming, so upset he can hardly talk. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But hardly was he settled before a pup tracked him to his hideout and pounced on him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to Papa and them about my four hundred dollars, but it hardly seemed like the time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“His tomatoes would be red while everyone else’s vines were still climbing. His squash were bigger and sweeter, his grapes didn’t hardly have to be bottled before they started being wine.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Holly had hardly turned away when Daisy started back up. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like when you wake up and your arm is still asleep and you can't hardly make it move? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Protective worrying, engaging with another’s mind as one entered it, taking the dominant role as one guided another’s fate, was hardly mental freedom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As it was, Stannis would hardly need scaling ladders to storm the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Annabelle can hardly believe what she is witnessing, because the animal is actually in the air, like he’s been lifted by a tornado. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They do not mention Papa and they hardly mention prison. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He appeared already to know much about them and all their families, and indeed to know much of all the history and doings of the Shire down from days hardly remembered among the hobbits themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“She died when I was only five. I can hardly remember her, but when I hold Tedward, it’s almost like she’s with me again.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

With hardly a ripple, Winifred and three of her otters slid into the water. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Talk like that made my heart jump up in my throat till I could hardly get my breath. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly feel the pain now—the feet I gazed at seemed to be someone else’s. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were hardly out of sight before she blew out a breath so long it sounded as if she had been holding it for a year. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother always liked to say he was never going to get wrinkles because he hardly ever frowned. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly believe what had happened yesterday and were anxious to see if Chester would continue to sing familiar songs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a Shao Lin priest could have anticipated some of the more exaggerated movements, but these men were hardly trained adversaries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

These words were followed by the silence of surprise, as they were spoken by Big Henryk, who often bellowed like a cow but hardly ever bellowed words. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The next day at Sunday dinner, Papa had hardly finished serving the baked hen when my mother said, real pleasant, “I wonder who played the piano for the Methodists today.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Shay wasn’t exactly a freak, but she was hardly a natural-born pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At one point, he heard some men—familiar customers—talking about the river level, and he stopped to listen in the way he’d always done and that hardly anyone noticed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I could hardly even bring myself to look at her, as though just talking about something so terrible might cause it to rub off on me and stain. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The sky above him was sprinkled with so many stars there hardly seemed to be any space left for the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

You can’t hardly get down the street for the crowds, and the dust never settles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she went away to live in America hardly any of the family was speaking to her. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I hardly think they would hang the whole club, sir. Only you and Mr. Hancock.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you have hardly been at court at all,” said Arthur. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This girl was very slender, and Lazlo hardly expected the goddess of despair to have kind eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Briony was hardly to know it then, but this was the project’s highest point of fulfillment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I need hardly advise you, gentlemen, to lock your doors." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

If you weighed it on a postal scale, would hardly move the needle at all, but I suppose there was a fraction of an ounce of sorry for him somewhere inside me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hardly think we need new fixtures, L6once. Don’t let us get anything new; you are too extravagant. I don’t believe you ever think of saving or putting by.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those North Africans would hardly be confused with blue-eyed blond-haired Swedes, but most laypeople would still call them “whites” because they have lighter skin and straighter hair than peoples to the south termed “blacks.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While the other girls grumbled that their piece rates had dropped so that it had hardly been worth slaving through the summer heat, she kept her silence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Percy felt so angry, he could hardly breathe. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As the morning wore on, the sky became a crisp blue with hardly a cloud. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There are burrs and stickers on the path up the hill, and usually I wouldn’t take it without sneakers, but if there’s burrs and stickers in my feet, I hardly feel ’em. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether the cause was the Pilgrim God, Pilgrim guns, or Pilgrim greed, native losses were foreordained; Indians could not have stopped colonization, in this view, and they hardly tried. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The coaches questioned his work habits and desire, and they were hardly inspired by his background— from the Southside, living not with his parents but with his grandmother. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so full of humble gratefulness, I could hardly speak. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Wagner, nothing was allowed to distract from the unfolding musical story and he would happily intertwine chorus, solo, duets, instrumental interludes so that you could hardly tell when one ended and another began. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It stings the insides of my nostrils, so I hold my nose, but it hardly helps. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I finished so spent I could hardly wave to him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I remember, this suggestion wasn’t taken up; maybe hardly anyone heard it, because a lot of us were talking all at once. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, there were hardly any Oriental people in Iowa, and the store went out of business shortly after Lynn and I first counted the money under the refrigerator. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The kestrel had not yet seen it, but could hardly fail to do so as soon as it moved. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sand wouldn't have seemed very comfortable to you, but Shasta had been sleeping on the ground for weeks and hardly noticed it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, I hardly imagine you could forget her. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I curl up closer to the wall, but there’s hardly any need. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the storms came so fast and so close that one had hardly finished tapering off before the next came, with winds Turner could hear before he could feel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It is hardly likely master would laugh, I should think, Miss, when he was in such danger: You must have been dreaming.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

That’s when my heart swelled up so fast, it closed my throat and I could hardly breathe. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nicholas seemed to feel that he had done his part, delivered words of wisdom, and in the following months, he hardly spoke to Obinze at all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Opel bounces down roads that are hardly more than cattle trails. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, there were hardly any boats on the river at all. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I was hardly breathing, waiting for the moment to pass, waiting for people to turn away, waiting for my teacher to start talking again when he suddenly cleared his throat and said— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

No, she could hardly have done that, in fairness to Judith. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A more evil, vicious, and self-serving man could hardly be imagined, wrote Esperanza on the next line. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His scruff scraped my lips, he ran his hands up my back and across my cheeks and down the front of my pants so quickly, I could hardly react. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I’ve been putting on an act, but was hardly even aware of it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was standing near a doorway in the wall, under a street lamp that hardly gave any light. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Slowly, his feet hardly touching the floor, Matthias traveled a long corridor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s like he just couldn’t hardly wait for Ma to p-p-pass!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He could kill her right now, she supposed, though she could hardly gather up enough energy to care. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hardly finish telling about Shiloh and he’s got tears in his eyes already. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The youngster will hardly survive the carrying, and at the most he will only last a few days. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hardly ever this cold in the winter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had the beginnings of a home, but not a bite to eat, and I had worked so hard that I could hardly move forward to find that bite. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly recognize myself in the cracked mirror that leans against the wall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Or at least my body can hardly stand it. “. . . elections three weeks from today,” I hear Ms. Wyman saying. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Matt has hardly finished speaking when Lydia whacks him on the head. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I won’t hardly be able to look at the map behind Miss Simpson's desk now; it will only remind me of how far you are from Arlington. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The war had lasted so long that folk could hardly remember a time when the sky wasn’t dark with the smoke of burning towns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The one we shot today—right through the heart with an arrow. He hardly even kicked.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was hardly the goal in the mind of the Chicago school officials who conceived the lottery. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I hardly had any friends and I couldn’t look anyone in the face. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was so scared I could hardly breathe, and there was a strong smell of heated creosote. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She could hardly bring the last words out, and as she spoke tears were in her eyes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Galina, flying after Marina, could hardly see the wings of her own aircraft—let alone the two other planes in the formation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It hardly seemed like the time to bring it up, but I was angry and couldn’t help myself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There’s hardly an activity, a belief, or even an emotion that is not mediated by objects of our own devising. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell he liked her, but she hardly said anything to him. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Man, they can hardly get him loose, the way he's stuck deep in that mud, and before they drag him to shore they're all covered with slime and mud. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

That not onely the Experiment will be difficult, but a man can hardly reade them without laughter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She regards the pygmy beauty as some sort of rival and hardly suspects that I took her picture out of the National Geographic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally could hardly manage to speak through her own laughter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

That left me with hardly enough time to make breakfast and get myself dressed before driving to morning gym practice forty-five minutes away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Fives is possibly the fastest ball-game on earth, far faster than squash, and the little ball ricochets around the court at such a speed that sometimes you can hardly see it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t know; he doesn’t suspect; he doesn’t have the slightest idea. Otherwise he couldn’t live out a life as a bounty hunter, a human occupation—hardly an android occupation.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Wart was so much impressed by the kindness of the old man, and particularly by the lovely things which he possessed, that he hardly liked to ask him personal questions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel sat furiously next to Brangwain Spurge, but he hardly heard the opera. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Over the next three weeks, I hardly spend any time with Suesetta. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Others wept while they shouted; there was hardly a home in the county that had not felt the fiery lash of the war’s tongue. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were medieval paintings in gilt frames hardly bigger than CD jewel cases; some were rough pencil sketches of Renaissance statues; some were larger-than-life oil paintings. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beauty sleep hardly seems important for someone who filters the holy hell out of her photos, but what Harriett does for the ’gram is her business—literally. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The rocks were cold and smooth and slippery under his feet arid the water lapped up to his knees, but Turner hardly noticed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Even if they skipped more meals, there was hardly enough left for two weeks. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But not doing anything is hardly comforting, either. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

From the way it looked here, where you could hardly be bothered to lift your feet to step over a dead woman's arm, he did not think he would be needing apologies or tributes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lina started to say that she liked running and hardly ever got tired, but Lizzie didn’t wait for her to answer. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“His name’s Scabbers and he’s useless, he hardly ever wakes up. Percy got an owl from my dad for being made a prefect, but they couldn’t aff — I mean, I got Scabbers instead.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Because I can see people’s souls sometimes when I draw them, I know the following: Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there’s hardly any room in her for organs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I could hardly leave in the clothes I came in — what would the neighbors think?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It kept getting darker and darker, and we could hardly see the ball any more, but we didn't want to stop doing what we were doing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The common explanation, he wasn’t rah-rah enough, didn’t make any sense to him, although the coaches were hardly the only ones who found him to be stubborn and headstrong. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lazily turning ceiling fans did little to cool the heavy air, and several people around us were smoking, but we hardly noticed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hardly think she would have had time to do that, old boy, not in the time.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm so weak, I can hardly put my shoes on. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly bring myself to look in the mirror, first at my brown face and then at my sun-scorched hair. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or hardly anything, except that I make something of myself that she called a "race leader." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know that I hardly touched the ground. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the street the shouting is in a language we hardly know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hardly seem to care whether missionaries exist Don’t be bitter, I said. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt such a need to move and keep moving that he hardly noticed the pain in his hand anymore. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eb,” he exclaimed in a voice hardly above a whisper. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best thing about high school is that hardly anybody knows me at all. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The words stretched out large and scrawling so that he could hardly read them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hermione looked down at her hardly touched plate of food, then put her knife and fork down upon it and pushed it away from her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It hardly seemed right to use the same word for all of them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly spoke when he first came, skinny, pimply, beardless except for the babyhair on his upper lip and chin. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box was lined with shiny black taffeta, but you could hardly see any of the fabric because Meggie had a great many favorite books, and she always added another whenever they traveled anywhere. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’ve only ever been to one funeral in my life and it was for someone I hardly knew. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t feel at all well. I can hardly move.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not help inquiring then how many staff were employed there, and I suppose I was hardly surprised to be told there was only himself and a cook who came in each evening. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the afternoon, she could hardly keep her head up. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My only consolation is the knowledge that I then led a life where I’d hardly enough time even to think. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, relieving myself, also a monthly act, was hardly that. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has hardly any money left for the rest of the month, but he uses most of it to buy some rolls for the dog. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His voice was so low Chamberlain could hardly hear it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn't hardly keep my hands off you those first few days. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

They walked across the dark entrance hall, both hardly feeling the tiles under their feet, and headed for one of the exits on the north side of the building. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly bear to have him tutor me, and his affection seems forced. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Scipio whispered so quietly that Prosper could hardly hear him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The boy can hardly keep up, Elinor’s feet must need a rest, and if you ask me this wouldn’t be a bad place for one.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her mind roared protest, but her legs could hardly carry her to the privy. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

One bitter night I tried to call my parents from the pay phone outside the Boulder Tap; sleet was falling and I was shivering so violently I could hardly get the coins in the slot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The facts of the case are hardly even remarkable when viewed in the context of the persistent violence perpetrated against American workers for much of our early history. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The terse whispered exchange with Ofglen, on our walk today, hardly counts; but it was a tease, a preliminary. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, hardly any Americans knew about the NSA. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The colored rest rooms, they didn’t bother with them, seemed like they hardly ever cleaned them for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And it hardly needs any alterations, which is good. We don't have much time.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went on to praise Kathy and Jesus and reaffirm the primacy of his and their faith, but by then she was hardly listening. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t planned to tell him—she hardly knew him. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had asked him to come with us today, but he hardly ever came out of his apartment anymore. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Precious stones hardly ever popped up around her by accident anymore, and pulling gold from the ground was easy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The floor is a pale wood polished to a high gloss, and there are carpets so that you hardly even notice the bloodstains here and there. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh. That. I can’t say I was thrilled, but I was hardly in danger. Rex has no teeth.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Either it was dead, or it was undergoing the change that he’d read about in a library book but could hardly believe was true—the change from a crawling thing to a flying thing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Those big cameras were terrifying. I hardly said anything!” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Her visit to arouse him against the Trojans was hardly necessary. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day I could hardly wait to tell Papa and Mama the great news. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because of our special role, we code talkers were often able to go places where ordinary Marines hardly ever set foot. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle D and Mr. Lucas had worked out an arrangement to share the truck even though Mr. Lucas hardly drove it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

As the daughter of the groom, I could hardly keep up the pretense that I spoke only Ayorthaian. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s my own daughter. It’s just that it’s been so long. And she was hardly speaking to her father and me in those days. What will we say to each other?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was so dry, she could hardly talk. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was hardly moving forward and his movements were weak. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie could hardly believe these same houses had looked so menacing on the night of their escape. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sun was behind him, so I could hardly see his face. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As I cleaned it, the liver suddenly looked so tempting that I could hardly wait to prepare it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are much simpler tools than the Whisperer, hardly more sophisticated than metal brooms. Otherwise my Executives would be unable to operate them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But though he knew they were on the right side Shasta at first could hardly bear to look at them; there are some things that take a lot of getting used to. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It hardly seemed a song to calm the children. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hardly think a plum would survive the fall,” she repeated, laughing harder. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He hardly ever made gestures of affection, even to his sister. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

To himself he said, / don’t thin\\ I life it, but he could hardly pull himself away. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She hardly heard it past the blood pounding in her ears. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ant mounds on lawns or playgrounds may create a situation where children are likely to be stung, but this is hardly an excuse for drenching millions of acres with poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Will had to push against something invisible and then pull Lyra after him, and the Gallivespians could hardly make any headway at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frodo was hardly less terrified than his companions; he was quaking as if he was bitter cold, but his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could hardly hear my own voice as thousands of others joined and recited it with me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane had his own arsenal of horrors; he hardly needed hers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

However, here and there was a tent so obviously magical that Harry could hardly be surprised that Mr. Roberts was getting suspicious. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Turner hardly noticed when Mr. Stonecrop left, snorting. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was so exhausted she could hardly move, what with running from one patient to the next. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking down into a face that hardly came up to my armpit. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She could hardly move in the kitchen, large as it was, without tripping over the gangly legs of a man or having one of them bar her path to the fireplace with a poker. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He is short and bald and hardly ever seen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He still smarted, more from Ellidyr’s words than from the drubbing; and he was hardly pleased that Eilonwy had seen him sprawled at the feet of the arrogant Prince. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been in the school to do odd jobs, but he hardly recognized it now as the dust began to settle. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a one- dollar bill—not even a one-dollar bill and a fifty-cent piece—two dollars you had to eat! And from the Bellinis too—people who hardly make two dollars in two days.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't talk to you at all hardly unless you were a big shot or a celebrity or something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But there is plenty of scope for arguing with ‘is’ statements, and one could hardly describe them as stubborn or powerful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘He’s got a long glass of dark brown stuff in front of him and he’s hardly touched it,’ she reported. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The funny thing is that she hardly lets it show. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He could hardly cover the whole of Tarbean in just seven days’ time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Well, it’s hardly to be wondered at in this fog, Madam. That’s what I said to Robert just now. It’s difficult to find your way on the road, let alone on the water." Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed his limp wrists in his lap and hardly seemed to be breathing as he sat with his gaze drooping toward the floor in acquiescent defeat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the Lemnians are hardly ever mentioned, while everyone who knows even a little about mythology has heard of the Danaïds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is hardly room to step without landing on someone’s foot, a squawking chicken, or a pile of cow dung. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He hardly knew why he had ever rebelled. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ll call you tomorrow,” he said, but she had hardly settled into the car when her phone beeped with a new text message from him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government could hardly set the record straight, since it denies that Camp 14 exists. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was hardly ever in the cave without James—Alfred squeezed against the back, James up front, poking out his head to see if the coast was clear. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wild-eyed and savage, the bird Miss Wren was grinding into the floor was one we hardly recognized. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His fur is so soft that I can hardly even feel it as I pet him. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Jamie was so excited that he could hardly get the key into the lock to open the box. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure what’s wrong. I tried to reach you last night, but the bones came down so hard, I could hardly breathe. It was like being squeezed under a rock.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was so low by the time we got to the edge of the road that we hardly needed the boat. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly keep my voice from shaking all over the place. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“My boy’s floating around in our tub all day long. I can’t hardly get in my own bathroom no more.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colton was in a rotten mood, hardly talking, clearly homesick and hating Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up here in the hills you hardly ever get down to business right off. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I hardly even thought about it now. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She certainly couldn’t fund it, and with a restaurant to run and a team of her own to coach, she hardly had time to spare. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe that she would take such a risk for a mere pot, but going back for it gave her one more moment to survey her kitchen and what had been our home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she is alive; and more sensible and collected than she was. The doctor says she may linger a week or two yet; but he hardly thinks she will finally recover.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly see for the thick black smoke issuing from the stall in which Hermione was stirring the cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She could hardly make out anything, it was so dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

That night, squeezed into her drawer bed like a step-sister’s foot in Cinderella’s shoe, Shirley could hardly sleep thinking of what the surprise might be. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Half the morning, Miss Leefolt been on the phone with Miss Hilly gossiping about something, hardly noticing Baby Girl at all. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I certainly didn’t want to give up my craft room when I’d hardly had a chance to call it mine. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was hardly any traffic compared to the days before, and there weren’t many people on the streets, but there was plenty of noise coming from the apartment buildings. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The last level was the smallest of the three, hardly more than a thin crescent that hugged three walls, high above the stage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Will longed for that so much that he hardly knew he did. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was hardly a molecule that was uniformly represented everywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

By Wednesday morning, September 4, I could hardly believe it was really happening—I was going to Central High School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly believe my luck, and my wild heart laughs, but I let out no sound. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister and Ma hardly ever fight, but those footsteps sound like a battle's about to begin. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At least there was that—the man who haunted my childhood dreams was hardly ever here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly offer to patrol, since that will be Arthur’s occupation, but if you need anything I can hear you.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everything happened too fast—a bobbin of weft thread lasted hardly five minutes before it had to be replaced—and it was painfully deafening. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then as now, you hardly ever saw any olive-skinned people in Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I had scoffed back then, thinking this was hardly a lesson plan for a university course. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Charlotte says she hardly ever does. It is the greatest of favours when Miss de Bourgh comes in.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time the world was so thick with ghosts, I could hardly breathe; I could hardly walk, limping my way around the White Ghosts and their cars. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hot wind blows into my face, forcing tears from my eyes before I can stop them, until I can hardly see where I am going. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking of all the students in the town six thousand feet below us who love him, who hardly ever hear a kind word, who only have him telling them that they’re worth anything. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When they recognized me, they were as excited as I was, hardly daring to believe that I had made it out of the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the dream I could hardly take my eyes off of Lightfoot, swaying out there on the trestle. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But she hardly ever smiled, and when she talked everything came out with a hint of thunder in it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He clambered back up the ledges, retrieved his collar—it took some time to find—and so sprinted home, hardly able to breathe by the time he reached the front porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

That was hardly the staggering amount reported in newspapers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We can hardly control ourselves when our glance lights on the form of some other man. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

November 15 I had hardly dozed when East came into the room with a lone cup of coffee on a serving tray. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them, and if you're there you can hardly help feeling that you're out of it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He offered to share his supper, but there was hardly enough for one person, so we all politely refused, insisting that he go ahead—at least, Caroline and Call were insisting. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hardly the same,” he says, and I feel sad that he doesn’t see that it isn’t too different. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time Nico works and realize I’m hardly breathing. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I can hardly afford rent as it is.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He sum talking, so low I can hardly hear. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then again, it seems hardly worthwhile to speculate greatly on such matters now when one knows one will, in all likelihood, be talking face to face with Miss Kenton within forty-eight hours. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed hardly out of breath, in spite of climbing, but his hand trembled as he reached out to take hold of the railing, and his face was wet. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

An old guy with a walking stick who was so lean and healthy looking he looked like he could walk a thousand miles without hardly noticing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

During this period, I hardly had time for meals and saw very little of my family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lips of her wounds had hardly drawn together when Ira was on her feet again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hardly dared hope they had seen the last of the pressure attacks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It's hardly a secret our new king has always been an enthusiast for the Nazis. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Prince finished by advising them not to jump ship, since they were hardly in condition to swim that far. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His toy broomstick could hardly be considered interesting to the Death Eaters....The only potentially useful thing he could see here was possible information on Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I can hardly describe how comforting it was in the cool, quiet dark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stars were eager to participate; hardly had the blan­ket of colour been pulled a little than they started to shine through the deep blue. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five o’clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January, when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and nearly dressed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “You drunk? I can hardly believe it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What animal he was now, Will could hardly tell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’s laughing so hard he can hardly talk. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

This issue of the common good versus personal liberty was hardly new when Prohibition was enacted, and one hundred years later, it is still very much with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Mam says, No, you’ll stay here where there’s no work and hardly a lump of coal to boil water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He learned, while breathing in, to quiet his heartbeat, learned to lessen his heartbeats, until there were few and hardly any more. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny first, though hardly able to walk; then Durgan; Kannan with his wife, bearing a few jasmine buds; and Kali, bringing with her a muslin cloth to cover the bier. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The person who had tipped off the shopkeeper about the robbery, White was hardly surprised to learn, was William K. Hale. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I could hardly see because my hair was blowing around my face. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve hardly spoken word one to her since I found those bottles last week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hardly heard her; that theme song synced up with my pounding heartbeat. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Well, that was hardly a surprise because for the last few days people had been finding snakes everyplace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the incident with the detective, Mosca had drilled a spy-hole into the door, but it was already dark outside, so when Prosper pressed his eye against the hole he could hardly see anything. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the way, bulky, his eyes hardly visible under the low brim of his cap. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be de­scribed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“After all, we can’t simply send you home for refusing to fly more missions and keep the rest of the men here, can we ? That would hardly be fair to them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They hardly touched one another in the family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I'm pretty sure the something he's protecting is not secret information about our space program. He hardly looks like a rocket scientist.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the divorce, I hardly ever saw my father. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe what I was seeing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest laughed, said he had never seen the likes, that the child was a regular little Baptist now and hardly needed a priest. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“At the risk of sounding like Raymond Andrews, it’s not likely. Not impossible, but hardly likely.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson could hardly wait to get a good look at them up close. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By that time my legs had stiffened so I could hardly walk. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I consider informing her that there’s hardly any red in nature and that maybe she should try green, but I figure, why start something? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There he had undoubtedly fallen into a pool or a river and come to a tragic, but hardly an untimely, end. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“She seemed lovely, though hardly muscular. I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer. But again, lovely.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They could be gone for four or five days, but were hardly mentioned in that time; and when they came back, no one really asked them anything. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pursuing the patent now seemed to him “hardly worthwhile.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They return to the Parker House with a multitude of packages in tow, stopping by their rooms for hardly enough time to sit before Elizabeth comes to take them down to dinner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Twice Harry nearly hit another player, without knowing whether it was a teammate or opponent; everyone was now so wet, and the rain so thick, he could hardly tell them apart.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was also quite kind to Miss Trixie; there was hardly any friction in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, hardly able to say it out loud because it sounded so ridiculous, so impossible. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There were hardly any trees in the North End anyway. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was quiet, barely time for the shops to open, and there were hardly any shoppers abroad. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Mama! The other goslings didn’t know that warm air rises. So I found an updraft and we spent the afternoon circling around and around and hardly flapped our wings at all!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My hands are still numbed out and I can hardly walk, so all I can do is sort of fall on top of him and try to shove him loose from her. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the Crash came, larger circuses started going down and Uncle Al could hardly believe his luck. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He did not mean to kill the poor musician; he just struck out on the impulse of the moment without thinking, hardly aware of his strength. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she hardly ever got to hold him, for he was still very young. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Matt could hardly remember those terrible days three years before, when he was kept in a pen with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let go, stupid,” part of me was saying, while another voice I hardly recognized was urging me to hold him tighter. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is remarkable is that hardly anyone seems to imagine that similar political dynamics may have produced another caste system in the years following the collapse of Jim Crow—one that exists today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t wish to offend the woman, but he could hardly trust her now, and it was more important to know that Miss Perumal’s mind was at ease. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I could hardly, by myself, start shouting for rewinds just to see sex scenes again. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the 1960s, when she had money, which was hardly ever, Mommy would take us down to Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to shop for school clothes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I hardly think so. She gave it all to me when she left." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As the bird roasted, Salva could hardly keep his eyes off it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have the people of this generation come down to hunting mice? They aren’t very strong, the new people, but I hardly thought mice would be game for them.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lighthouse was only a quarter of an hour’s flight from the Charing-T Tower; but the hills of Malpais were hardly more deserted than this Surrey heath. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Second-grade burns,” he said, then waved away my concerned exclamation before it hardly began. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had hardly recognized himself in the mirror. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet between the houses and soon they entered the hidden heart of the city, where there were hardly any strangers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Rose Garden Hotel, while hardly luxurious, is certainly homely and comfortable, and one cannot begrudge the extra expense of accommodating oneself here. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was hardly necessary on the flat streets of Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon, as the locals still called it, but Artemis preferred to be as insulated from civilians as possible. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It’s been so long since I’ve been anywhere with live electricity, with light and power after dark, I hardly remember what it’s like to turn on a light switch. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the pig was done, I was hardly aware of it at all. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes widen, and I hardly see her hand slicing through the air before the slap lands on my cheek, hard, angry, and stinging. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon replaced by a shovel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But the job was so dull that I was almost dozing off and could hardly respond when the radio of a nearby officer loudly blared out the emergency tone. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t use the cane much for walking because she hardly ever walked. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He realized now that they could hardly have laid Dobby to rest in a more beautiful place, but Harry ached with sadness to think of leaving him behind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He rowed hard the last stretch—he didn’t want to show how tired he really was—but when Willis threw out the line and Turner could hardly tie the knot, he figured Willis would know. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel said, ‘‘You can wash in there,” indicating a small room hardly bigger than a closet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could hardly see them heaving an entire shark out of water, let alone carrying it on their backs and disappearing with it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hardly ever drinks, only at fiestas, or sometimes with his friends at a bar, like tonight. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a week King Pellinore saw hardly anything of his friends. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, you could hardly see the floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can hardly credit that such things still exist. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchs had also told investigators that his American contact seemed to know a lot about chemistry, but that was hardly evidence. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly notice the walk home even though a wet snow begins to fall. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even as I continue downloading information, I find myself distracted as the spotlights sweep over each team, hardly able to believe that I’m in the same space as them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It hardly matters, though, because all Aibileen will do is shrug at me, say she don’t know nothing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But it seemed hardly any time at all before we came to the Oaken Oar where she was staying in Imre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He felt so good, so at peace, he could hardly hold his thoughts together. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He might have slipped out of the other door, but hardly without being seen; and he could not have played hide-and-seek with this hideous orc for long. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hardly stand to see her give up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I listen so closely that he finishes cleaning my burns and I hardly notice the pain. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

On some weekend mornings, not always, hardly even any, but some, Apa becomes the Blob. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Islam followed right behind, hardly a year later. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe this was our tenderhearted little Mate whom Noris resembled so much. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew then it was him, but I couldn’t hardly believe it! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"But, tell me, how can my son be king when he can hardly talk? How will he rule? Who will listen to him?" Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny, who had his own colonel to watch, Colonel Smith, hardly left the Afric Queen all day and helped the pot-boy serve drinks to the officers in the dining room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As Equiano explained, the sugar slaves could hardly rest even when their day was done. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her breath makes a cloud of steam when she says, “No wonder she hardly ever talked.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There were stumps to burn aplenty as he cleared the land, but suddenly there was no need for potash in England and hardly any demand in Vermont. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not all immigrants believed that was true, but as one historian has written, “Whenever life could hardly be worse at home, they came to believe that life was better in America.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Olinski felt—the sensation was so strange to her that she hardly remembered the word—relaxed. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if worse comes to worst, though. It hardly has any miles on it.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising, therefore, that we are now aware of an alarming increase in malignant disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If Edward was a vampire — I could hardly make myself think the words — then what should I do? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Salva could hardly believe his eyes when he boarded the plane in Nairobi. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This hardly means that discrimination itself has ended—only that people are embarrassed to show it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Charlie says, bouncing up and down, hardly able to contain himself. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I saw hardly any kids in the neighborhood. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is more problematic, though, is that hardly anyone in the mainstream media noticed the oversight. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now that she was seeing him at last, she hardly knew what to say. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, though I could hardly admit it. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Amid such a picture of death and destruction, the young salmon themselves could hardly have been expected to escape, and they did not. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Well, to tell you the truth, I hardly go into Salisbury myself, so I couldn't really say what it's like at close quarters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The woodland of Belorussia was so thick that there was hardly any place to use as an airfield, so the 46th Guards had to take off and land in forest clearings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m awfully flattered you mistook me for Prince Gwydion. There’s hardly any resemblance, except possibly a certain air of...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

There are times when the world is gelatinous around you, and it takes such a gathering of willpower just to move the slightest bit, it hardly seems worth the effort. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Let’s get Harry and set him back before he becomes so mean people will hardly recognize him any more! Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I chatted with my friend—I think it was Matilda—as cheerfully as possible, and hardly looked his way for the rest of the time we were in the queue. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when he was so thirsty that he could hardly stand it anymore, he unscrewed the cap, turned the canteen over, and poured it all out onto the dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Drew was nice, but he hardly ever talked to her without Taryn around. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Internet, powerful as it is, has hardly slain the beast that is information asymmetry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I sank farther down, onto my heels, hardly aware of myself mumbling the words out loud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Salva could hardly wait for it to be skinned and butchered and roasted. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now her voice brooking in my ear, in a voice I hardly recognized. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear made his awkward way over the stony ground, barking his shin once but hardly feeling the pain in his eagerness. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“With so few belongings, the other girls will hardly know whether you are a servant or one of us.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re so much like her, I can hardly stand it,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was hardly the same as going off on a business trip and then setting up an automatic text to arrive a week later saying she was never coming back. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boys rowed with white knuckles and chattering teeth, their hands so cold they could hardly feel the oars, their feet throbbing with pain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And when I told him the truth, he could hardly believe it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hardly ever cold enough in San Francisco to wear mink. But it seems to be a fad, what people are buying their wives and girlfriends these days.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could hardly believe it,” Jesse later told me, recalling that first morning when they gazed up at a squat, ugly, four- story apartment complex facing a suburban highway. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a teenager’s bike, with a cut down Reynolds 531 frame, but the wheels were full-size so he could ride at speed with hardly any rolling resistance. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I'd planted Mo's cutting two years ago and hardly visited after that. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could linger two hours over a coffee, four over a meal, and hardly be noticed by the waitress. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But then the very next day I’d watch you workin’ at yore table and...I couldn’t hardly stand it, you was so beautiful. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They're shaking so much I can hardly keep hold of the money she drops into them. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When the car proceeded at a moderate speed, which was hardly ever, the whistle sounded no worse than an hellish roar. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he heard the soft pad of paws and the sounds of sucking and—he could hardly believe it—felt a rough little tongue licking the milk off his knuckles. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

In light of Hurd’s portrait, Revere’s work as a silversmith hardly explains these attributes and actions, natural as they seem. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was out of breath, hardly able to open his mouth. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for now, if she feels like she has to keep the deception going, I am hardly in a position to contradict her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So many that hardly any naked wall remained. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Events of great importance are unfolding upstairs and I can hardly stop to exchange pleasantries with you. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He said when they told him that he could hardly keep a straight face. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friday before Christmas, but it was early in the morning, and hardly anyone was on Fifth Avenue. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She could hardly take a breath without a wracking cough shaking her whole body. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hubbard arrived in the dining car in such a state of breathless excitement that she was hardly able to articulate her words. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes smarted and teared until he could hardly see two feet ahead of him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

By sunup I was so stiff I could hardly move. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the earth is flat and there are hardly any trees, the trailers rise out of the landscape like skyscrapers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I know she wasn’t your girlfriend, that you hardly ever talked to her and barely even knew her, but is that your best excuse for what happened next? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There’s hardly any way to keep the école secondaire open another term without funds, and parents are anxious that education is only putting their children at greater risk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a voice so quiet I could hardly hear him, he added, “And I suppose there will be children.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would hardly ever speak above a whisper and I would always be—yes, there was no other word, I would be charming. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we pay no attention to the Wife, we hardly even see her, our eyes are on Janine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

By next day you could hardly wake her—and if you did, a minute later she’d go right back into that loud, awful breathing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mom gave me the stink eye for blurting out my personal desires to someone we hardly knew. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He could not help looking out very hard for any sign of his friends, though the setting sun shone in his face so that he could see hardly anything. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“And you hardly tell me anything about yourself, you could have fled an arranged marriage of your own.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But in a school of 1100, that hardly made a dent. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ll try, but we hardly gave the advance man time to get here, did we?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I can hardly look at him without a welling of confused, unpleasant emotion. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few days I lay flat on my back, hardly able to blink without feeling like my forehead was splitting open, and everything sick and black. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hardly look at my own body in the mirror, even at home, in private. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But this is hardly a comprehensive explanation, and I have the nagging suspicion that some essential feature of the Martian canal problem still remains undiscovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you would, but it’s not hardly likely.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There’s hardly any point in my thinking, is there? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trickle went down cool, though he could hardly taste it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He hardly felt proud of them, nothing like the books his parents had chosen for him or the bizarre knitting he was sure Hyacinth had spent hours working on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I hardly have to think them up, they’re just there suddenly, like thought balloons with light bulbs in them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"He can hardly keep his eyes open, poor boy," Thatha says. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

That’s a unique contribution of the linguistic evidence, something we could hardly have guessed just from physical studies of living people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Father was out somewhere looking for trouble as usual, and we hardly knew how to answer that question ourselves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hardly spoke until they were inside the restaurant, seated at a tiny table near the bathroom. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They hardly need such patronizing, offensive lessons about not committing massacres. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blur of hands as the four men made moves on a chess set hardly larger than an index card. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t, it would hardly matter, because the city would be destroyed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was so close to me that I could reach it by hardly extending my arm, which is what I did without a second thought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But though he was quick, he had hardly got his hands on the place when there was another crash over by the wastebasket. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He does okay when he sings “Easy Street,” but I can hardly hear him. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A more suggestive comment could hardly have been made. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally let go of Harry’s hand, Harry could hardly feel his fingers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She looked more feeble than powerful, and hardly dangerous. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the short drive over, hardly a word was said in the car as both my father and I were lost in our thoughts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I hardly know the guy. How am I supposed to get him to put together a whole game just for me?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet there was hardly anybody about, and all was quiet; from the Common Room there came a low murmur of no more than two or three voices. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The picture of the bear with a balloon, which had once been brightly colored, had faded so much it was hardly visible. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But just as justice delayed is justice denied, a reform so long postponed and so grudgingly enacted was hardly worth celebrating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate those trucks. I can hardly see the road.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lyra’s heart was beating so fast she could hardly breathe. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for a week and hardly saw a soul. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could hardly manage to get the key into the lock. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

All morning long, students I hardly know are asking me to run for class president, begging me to join their clubs, their sports teams, to sit with them at lunch. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly get the key in the lock. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, Rodney leading the way, through little backstreets hardly penetrated by the sun, the pavements so narrow we often had to shuffle along in single file. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, if I was going to steal any of it, I’d hardly be here giving it back to you, would I?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s still so wonderful, I can hardly believe it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Tjaden especially can hardly contain himself; he takes the largest of the rings in his hand and every now and then puts his legs through it to show how much slack there is. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came toward me, without his cane at the moment, his new walking cast so much smaller and lighter that an ordinary person could have managed it with hardly a limp noticeable. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the tumblers clicked, it popped open; Lefty crawled on top of Desdemona and the two of them hardly even moved; the ocean swells did the work for them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Celia rocked Matt back and forth, all the while murmuring comforting words he could hardly take in. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity—because you can hardly mention anything I’m not curious about. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tonight you could hardly say two words to me because I didn’t tell you about one of the worst experiences of my life. You ever seen somebody die?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Astonished and proud, they could hardly have been more excited if they’d found buried treasure. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The animals were so disturbed that they could hardly sleep in their stalls. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I could have told her I hardly ever think of being light, but she wouldn’t have believed me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Lyddie tried to speak to Diana on the stairs, but she seemed hardly to hear the greeting. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Harry wondered for a moment whom he was speaking to, but then realized “Mad-Eye” could hardly be Moody’s real first name. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The boys got their share of spankings, but my father hardly ever spanked me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shells hardly ever land in the same hole twice, I’ll get into it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your parents trust you to make good decisions. This is hardly the place they expect you to fool around or get in trouble. Just think about how disappointed they are going to be.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Baba's anger is hardly ever directed at me, and I flinch at his tone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And worst of all,” he continued sadly, “there’s nothing for me to do, nowhere I’d care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning he could hardly wait to go out and look at the canoe in daylight, but his father wanted help clearing up in the bar after the busy evening. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Covered in sweat, his face red, clothes sticking to his body, the boy didn’t slow, hardly glancing at Thomas as he went past. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The matron stood “Those people hardly ever last long when they come here,” she said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Metro Gnome does make speaking easy, as easy as singing, but I can hardly carry one around with me, can I? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This august building was hardly difficult for me to locate, its looming spire being ever-visible wherever one goes in Salisbury. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was froth at the tops of the bottles, and Lil could hardly keep from giggling when she took her first sip. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I can tell her to go. She would hardly like a prince for an enemy.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And as each one spoke, he fell off to sleep and another picked up the conversation with hardly any interruption. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Things in common, that made it easier to talk to each other than to strangers, but hardly meant that when they did they would agree. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Deacon Hurd, Turner, has been fearing for his mother’s sanity for some time, and he cannot leave her safely alone. You can hardly expect him to care for an insane woman.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She hardly bothered with her charges at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For the first few weeks after I arrived, we hardly brought up Madame or that conversation with Ruth in the car that day. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm so hungry that I hardly chew as I gulp it down and ask for seconds. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We’d just been looking at each other, hardly breathing, when suddenly the bell rang. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I cut myself another piece, but I can hardly chew. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“No. I’d shot by the bulletin board a minute before on the way to my locker for my math book. And the poster wasn’t there. Chances are hardly anybody saw it.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hardly had time to exchange incredulous looks when another boat came their way. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes are both intense and vague; he hardly seems to realize when he misses targets in marksmanship. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He seemed hardly to hear her; he was thoughtful—and in a manner which shewed him not pleased, soon afterwards said, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He hardly knew his son, for Will was getting fat and prosperous and he wore a coat and vest and a gold ring on his little finger. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my memory the bulk of the damage had been skin-deep—his arms, back and shoulders had hardly been burned at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This early in the season—it was still early April—there were hardly any cars in the park, so we treated Skyline Drive as a kind of broad, paved, alternative footpath. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly believe it was true, and yet here were green branches huskily rattling on their hats as they bent beneath them, and little coloured flowers curling round their shoes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically—to those who hardly think about us in return. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I translate these notes they turn out to be so unlike him, so lacking in invention, so moronic in fact, that I can hardly believe it: “Talked to B.W.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back then Tally had hardly believed there was such a person. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As usual Winston hardly looked at Julia as they drifted toward one another in the crowd, but from the short glance he gave her it seemed to him that she was paler than usual. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Our conversation on the previous night had hardly alluded to that approach. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She was hardly one of their favorite students. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We spoke of everything and nothing, and all the while I could hardly breathe for the nearness of her, the way she moved, the sound of her voice as it touched the autumn air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Asking what happened to the ancient Maya is like asking what happened in the Cold War—the subject is so big that one hardly knows where to begin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he would have to come up with a wonderful out-loud lie, since he could hardly tell them that he had thrown a rock at his nose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It never bothered me that we hardly went out. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The silence surrounding them was so absolute that Meggie hardly dared to breathe. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

American newspapers barely took notice: A story about a weather plane gone missing hardly qualified as front-page news. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dad hardly gets to see you since he started working for Yellow Cab.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Robert thinks that our sons should go into law or banking. Trade is hardly suitable for someone of our background.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The churning of African Americans in and out of prisons today is hardly surprising, given the strong message that is sent to them that they are not wanted in mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lastly, prison is hardly a cheap solution: it costs about $25,000 a year to keep someone incarcerated. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I took out the book Parvathi Teacher had given me and strained my eyes, trying to read in the semidarkness, but I could hardly make out the words. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The snow blew in our faces so we could hardly see. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The board was cracked and the tiny wooden dice were so ill-cut that they would hardly lie on their sides. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I can hardly wait for the day when I'll be able to go to the public library and ferret out the information I need. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was right: After Regina had visited him once, she wrote to him about his cramped quarters: “You can hardly turn around.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly bear to look at him, but when I do, he doesn’t recoil from me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood perfectly still, hardly believing the beauty of the sound, until Aunt Chipo yelled at her to move on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I quickly decided not to tell her I had been in the house, I hardly knew what to say. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Next thing I knew, my mom and I were sitting directly across from Danielle and her mother with hardly anyone else around. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Turner supposed that if the Apocalypse had come, he could hardly have been more surprised. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But she had hardly opened it at the first page when she heard footsteps behind her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He would have men enough about him; if it came to blood, two more would hardly matter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Plus she had hardly expected that anything would come of it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly ever went over to his room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They can hardly see Hamza because my swaggering cousin has shrunk to almost nothing behind me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not a word,” Jethro replied in a voice that was hardly audible. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby, now so focused that he could hardly hear the growing murmur from the crowd, made his next moves percussively, shooting them out like poison darts, hardly waiting for Byrne’s responses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t hardly tell where my arms end and the oars begin. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Voldemort was flying again, whether to the underground lake or here, to the castle, he did not know: Either way, there was hardly any time left. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed I could hardly make a wrong move, as if every gust of wind blew in my favor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My wife, I miss my wife, the wife I hardly knew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could hardly ask a policeman where she was without getting a lump in her throat. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Though you would hardly guess it from that display just now." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Constantly intent only on creeping along quickly, he hardly paid any attention to the fact that no word or cry from his family interrupted him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You weren’t doing anything about your little crush. You hardly talked to Gregor. Someone else was going to hook him at that rate.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

With Mags hardly able to walk and Peeta too weak to fight. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But you could hardly beat the shop’s setting—if you looked west, beyond nearby Brigham City, the Rockies exploded dramatically toward the sky. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Charley came bawling into the yard and his face was so swollen that the tears could hardly squeeze out of his eyes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though, with him belting out every song, he hardly seemed to notice. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And I won’t have to waste energy being angry because she hardly ever does. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z