This excellent observer has with unwearied kindness sent me copious notes and descriptions, with valuable suggestions on many points; and I can hardly over-estimate the value of his assistance.
It can hardly be from high motives when a lot of men, thinking differently on every possible subject, come together for the sake of pay and power.
It can hardly be possible," he said at last to her, "that he should decline to answer his own daughter's letter.
In such moments silence charms, and almost any words are unsuitable except those soft, bird-like murmurings of love which, sweet as they are to the ear, can hardly be so written as to be sweet to the reader.
He is opposed to the modes of education which prevailed in his own time; but he can hardly be said to have discovered new ones.
We can hardly get a sufficient number of these new religious books the good ones, I mean--to supply the demand.
We can hardly be blamed for receiving his overtures with a moderate enthusiasm.
The good which a single religious captain may do can hardly be calculated.
It can hardly be that we shall fail to find them if they have taken that way.
If we again go out and again fight many battles, even if we are victorious, which we can hardly hope to be, the same thing will happen.
When, however, the soil is sandy or mingled with many small stones, it can hardly be viscous enough to flow inwards during even the wettest weather; but another agency may here come into play.
From the several foregoing cases, it can hardly be doubted that worms swallow earth, not only for the sake of making their burrows, but for obtaining food.
A turbulent faction in a State may easily suppose itself able to contend with the friends to the government in that State; but it can hardly be so infatuated as to imagine itself a match for the combined efforts of the Union.
With these advantages, it can hardly be supposed that the adverse party would have an equal chance for a favorable issue.
I can set to work now to remember things I never remembered before, such as what I had to eat for breakfast this morning, and it can hardly be wholly habit that enables me to do this.
We can hardly suppose a parliament of hitherto speechless elders meeting together and agreeing to call a cow a cow and a wolf a wolf.
And it can hardly be doubted that, in many cases of complicated behaviour very well adapted to its ends, there can be no prevision of those ends.
The first time a bird builds a nest, we can hardly suppose it knows that there will be eggs to be laid in it, or that it will sit on the eggs, or that they will hatch into young birds.
The degree of similarity required cannot be precisely defined: a man may pronounce the word "Napoleon" so badly that it can hardly be determined whether he has really pronounced it or not.
I never was there before," said the major, "and indeed I can hardly say I am going there now.
Clothes for five persons, of whom one must at any rate wear the raiment of a gentleman, can hardly be found for less than ten pounds a year a head.
It can hardly be that a man is bound to do a thing, the doing of which, as you confess, would be almost more than noble," said Mrs Dale.
I can hardly believe," said Crosbie, "that things can be so bad that I cannot have a bill for two hundred and fifty pounds renewed when I am willing to pay for the accommodation.
Mrs. Casaubon may be acting imprudently: she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardlycall a woman wise who does that.
I can hardly believe it--that you should be engaged without my knowing it--without your father's telling me.
And now, with regard to this tedious war, of which from day to day we are still, in this month of May, 1862, hearing details which teach us to think that it can hardly as yet be near its end.
It can hardly be expected to come from a young country, or from a new and still struggling people.
Such words coming from us, or from parties among us, cannot justify those threats of war which we hear spoken; but that they should make the hearts of men sore and their thoughts bitter against us, can hardly be matter of surprise.
To a stranger this practice seems so manifestly absurd that he can hardly conceive it possible that a government service should be conducted on such terms.
I can hardlyunderstand it myself when I look back.
The earliest form taken by the instinct of self-preservation and the revolt against death can hardly be called by a milder name than swaggering.
Whether this be contemporary or not, it can hardly be by the same Metrodorus as the forty arithmetical problems which are given in an appendix to the Palatine Anthology (Section xiv.
I have simply come here to tell you that you are not entirely alone in the world, and that I, knowing myself to be your mother--(although it happened so long ago I can hardly believe I was ever such a fool!
I can hardly believe it possible that I should meet here in London a real Jocelyn!
He can hardly be dismissed--the other hands would want to know why; no man has ever been dismissed from Briar Farm without good and fully explained reasons.
And I can hardlybelieve he is dead--actually dead-- can you?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "can hardly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
