But he could hardly keep up a conversation with Mr. Lindsay, and Mysie showed herself utterly indifferent to him even in the way of common friendship.
And Robert soon began to feel that it could hardly be more ghastly to look upon a ghost than to be taken for one.
Thereupon Robert, who had been dejected all day at the thought of the separation from Miss St. John, found his heart beating so violently that he could hardly breathe.
When they reached the Gorohovaya, and came near the house, the prince's legs were trembling so that he could hardly walk.
I could hardly believe my eyes when I met him in Petersburg just now.
I had taken hold of the door-handle meanwhile, intending to leave the room without reply; but I was panting with my run upstairs, and my exhaustion came to a climax in a violent fit of coughing, so bad that I could hardly stand.
Such a combat, he had felt, could hardly fail to result in personal injury to either the party of the first part or the party of the second part, or both.
Ashe, who had resigned himself to a permanent contemplation of the subject, could hardly believe he heard correctly when, at the end of some ten minutes, his companion changed the conversation.
A curious species of mutual toleration--it could hardly be dignified by the title of friendship--had sprung up between these two men, so opposite in practically every respect.
Ashe, rehearsing this interview in the passage before his entry, had decided that he could hardly do better than model himself on the detective.
From Hoggle End he could hardly hope to pick up further lessons of wisdom.
But it could hardly be that he should seek Lily again, or that Lily, if so sought, should even listen to him.
I should go to him as a gambler goes to the gaming-table, knowing that if I lost everything, I could hardly be poorer than I was before.
His business was one on which he could hardlybegin to speak until the visitor had gone.
And oh, Frank, I could hardly think of anything but her in the church the other day, God forgive me!
It could hardly be, for him, a marriage after his mother's heart.
I could hardly refuse it, however, and he came along in excellent spirits, having effected the demolition of British social ideals, root and branch.
Being the third of the Breakfast-Table series, it could hardly be expected to attract so much attention as the earlier volumes.
As he was the son of the old Doctor's second wife, he could hardly be expected to remember her predecessor.
A clearer illustration of the confusion between the incorporeal and the corporeal, between the name and its material embodiment, could hardly be found than in this practice of civilised Greece.
The coincidence, if it happened, could hardly fail to strike the imagination of a superstitious and excited multitude, who might thereupon hail the great man as the deity whose coming was announced by the sign in the heavens.
It could hardly be otherwise, since they are familiar in the concrete, though certainly not in the abstract, to the crude intelligence not only of the savage, but of ignorant and dull-witted people everywhere.
It was never easy to detect expressions of feeling or spirits on his massive face, and he could hardly be more silent than usual; but it was noticeable that he never fell asleep after his former wont when sitting still.
And the thought of all that was before the mute creature, sitting there in heavy, hopeless patience, stung Felix's heart so that he could hardly bear to look him in the face.
Somebody helped him up, and trembling so that he could hardly stand, he caught an axe out of the hand of a strapping young fellow who had just arrived, and placing himself by the Rector's side, swung it feebly against the boarding.
For several minutes his round figure could hardly be seen at all in that scrimmage of tossing heads, stamping hoofs and waving tails.
I could hardly wait to get back to the little house with the big garden--to see the Doctor and his private zoo.
Most of the time I could hardly keep my eyes off poor Luke, who sat there between his two policemen, staring at the floor as though he weren't interested.
She told him the story little by little, and sometimes she sobbed so much that he could hardly understand.
For a moment he felt such a weakness in his legs that he could hardly stand; then he walked after her quickly; he touched her on the arm.
His heart beat so that he could hardly breathe, and he was more frightened than he had ever been in his life.
I could hardly spare a hundred pounds without giving up one of the horses; and I want to see you riding again.
Without much reply, he applied himself to his letter, feeling that he could hardly give an impartial judgment.
If any one else had compared you it would have been no compliment; but he told me you had reminded him of her from the first, and now your white cheeks and sick dress recalled her illness so much, that he could hardly bear it.
Here are bills that must be renewed, and one or two things I had forgotten, and while I owe the money and more too, I could hardly in honesty speculate with the price of my commission.
A more perfect contrast to the trim-built English clipper-ships that I had been accustomed to I could hardly imagine.
We were so sorely exhausted that we could hardly climb on board; and how we hoisted the boats I hardly know.
The blubber was so hard and tough that we could hardly cut it up for boiling, and altogether it was one of the most disappointing affairs we had yet dealt with.
So swiftly passed the time that when four bells struck: (two o'clock) I could hardly believe my ears.
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