We consider that his worst enemy could scarcely say a harder thing of him than that he was a religious man.
Well, like them, I have brought a supply of sunshine from the South which much harder frosts than this could not exhaust!
We have now to plant the monastic school in the midst of the teeming emporiums of trade and vice, where thousands toil harder for a bare crust and a hard board than the monks of old toiled for the kingdom of heaven.
But, John, I must warn you that it is harder to reconcile an estranged wife than to win a bride.
Which is harder to believe--the Catholic doctrine which teaches that we must obey the church which we believe to be the only church of Christ, and in support of which teaching we bring forward some very substantial proofs, or this?
He felt how much harder her trial was, and how selfish his own words had been, yet he did not try to see her again until the day of her baptism.
Johanna, I trust you understand why it was so much harder for me to accept this kind of help from you than from the others?
To resign it all voluntarily was hard; and yet how muchharder was it to resign his claim--superficial although it were--upon Magelone!
Rupert's ships were the more weatherly, and, if he had kept his wind and had pressed harder on the Dutch, it is possible that he might have worked through them as Monk had done in the last of the Four Days' Battle.
His task was made harder by the fact that the men of the English seaports sympathised openly with the Dutch.
The waters closed over the fairy as he disappeared, and the waves beat harder against Harpstenah's feet.
The other laughed scornfully, and his accent became harder and more tranchant than ever.
Velvet and gold are comfortable and costly, but they are not the most precious trifles that a man may lose or win; bills are very stubborn inconveniences but there are debts yet harder to meet, on which we pay heavier usury.
It would have been harder to find one honest menial there than ten saints in a City of the Plain.
The fall of footsteps came nearer and nearer, more and more distinct, as the poachers crossed the low fence one by one, and got on to the harder ground; they were evidently very numerous.
It will be a little hard on you at first, Bibi dear, I know, but it would be harder at your father's now.
It only made the torture yet harder for them to bear.
The younger folk were of another and a harder stuff; and he often was amazed to find how vigorously their minds echoed his ideas.
It was harder for him to suppress his past; it was so inseparable from Father Lasse that he was obsessed by a sense of unfaithfulness.
Here, it's true, I do work harder and I have to use my brains more, but then there's a future before me.
One after another the feelings of the child's defencelessness dropped and gave place to the harder ones of the individual.
He wept inwardly because he had let him off forty strokes; but he made up his mind to lay into him all the harder for it.
One could not go by the thermometer, for according to that the frost had been muchharder earlier in the year.
And you know very well, young man,' said he, 'that this is harder for me to say than to do.
He had a considerably harder task before him as he ascended the steps to the consular doorway, knocked and made known the nature of his errand.
Don't be alarmed; I shan't hit you any harderthan I have to.
This put the students on their mettle, and never did cadets study harder than during that week.
But if he catches us it will go so much harder with us when it comes to a settlement.
Never was it in a worse state, and good men were naturally harder and harder to get.
That was harder work; but there were strange, new thoughts beginning to come to Rita.
They believed they had solved one of their puzzles; but a good deal harder one was the question, "Who are those pale-faces, and where do they come from?
The bear gives a growl, and again pushes the stone aside, and this time harder than before.
That is why the deer nearly always gets away from the tiger--because he is trying harder than the tiger.
So with another growl he pushes the stone again--and now much harder than before.
The stone swings back and hits the bear harder than before!
But I must tell you that, although the tiger tries very hard to eat the deer, the deer tries still harder not to be eaten!
The more fleshly, selfish and materialistic is the life, the harder it is to be sure of immortality.
They show that it is harder not to believe than to believe in immortality.
Don't judge me by my sad looks--I have a disagreeable impression that I am not a cheerful fellow to contemplate; but if the truth were known there are much harder lots than mine.
A Grecian flute-player charged double fees for pupils who had been taught by inferior masters, on the ground that it was much harder to undo than to form habits.
Like a rubber ball, the harder the obstacle he meets the higher he rebounds.
The harder the diamond, the more brilliant the lustre, and the greater the friction necessary to bring it out.
The longer he watched that slender and pale hand plucking at the grasses, the harder and rougher grew the fight between pride and its kindly adversary.
Let me breathe," she said, panting a little harder than before.
But he was going to the other extreme, growing harder as she was becoming more panicky.
He took a delight in having her work harder and harder.
For there are things harder than to go barefoot and hungry and friendless.
Monday morning it looked like rain, and the wind blew harder than ever, so we lay by and the boys finished putting on the tar paper roofing.
During the preceding night the Fred Swain passed down and bumped us against the rocky shore harder than at any time previously.
In the weeks to come the grip of Arctic cold was to tighten still harder and harder upon the bleak wilderness and the living things that occupied it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
