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Example sentences for "hardly more"

  • A philosophic soliloquy is hardly more characteristic of Shakespeare than a sneer at money.

  • She is hardly more than a symbol of constancy.

  • There is hardly more plot or action in "Lear" than in "Love's Labour's Lost.

  • At my feet, hardly more than a few steps away, lay the tiny city of Arite and the lake.

  • The figure of the Chemist, standing motionless near the edge of the handkerchief, seemed now like a little white wooden toy, hardly more than an inch in height.

  • We had progressed through the woods in this way, hardly more than a few hundred yards, when suddenly I found that she was taking me into the mouth of a cave or passageway, sloping downward at an angle of perhaps twenty degrees.

  • The lizard, hardly more than an eighth of an inch long now, but still plainly visible, was wriggling along the top of the ring.

  • Oh, sorry day--the blood on it hardly more'n dry.

  • Did ye see that scalp, an' the blood on it hardly more 'n dry?

  • Now faint, and far away, hardly more than a hint of sound, they could hear something else, and it lifted Turner out of his reek of nightmare and semi-delirium so that his eyes cleared and his head came up.

  • The jail-house at Marlin Town squats low of roof and uncompromising in its squareness to the left of the Courthouse; hardly more than a brick pen, sturdily solid and sullenly unlovely of facade.

  • But she was surprised that Captain Thurston should have exposed a boy like Rupert, hardly more than a child, to such danger.

  • But, again, it was something very vague, intangible, hardly more than a phrase.

  • The stage tenure of most of the actresses was also brief, hardly more than a prelude to the social and domestic irregularities of their later lives.

  • But this golden age remains as hardly more than a brilliant picture; it has practically no important place in the progress of the education of women.

  • The Essay is, in reality, hardly more than a frame for the "Characters.

  • Hardly more than a faint buzzing, an imperceptible resonance, fainter and fainter, in the blue air.

  • Hardly more than a few portrait-statues found favor in his sight, and the originals had absolutely no interest for him.

  • The little village of Urville is hardly more than a score of coquettish-looking little houses, charmingly disposed along the shady roadway.

  • To continue up the valley of the Orne, and its smaller tributary, which is hardly more than a babbling brook, is to leave the well-worn roads behind and to strike out for oneself.

  • In reality the word port is excessive; it is hardly more than a beach where the fishermen's boats are hauled up like the dories of down-east fishermen in New England.

  • Le Trayas, though it figures in the railway time-tables, is hardly more than a hamlet; but it boasts proudly of a hotel and a group of villas.

  • The arena of Fréjus is in quite as dismantled a state as the theatre, one of the principal roadways now passing through its centre, so that to-day the monument is hardly more than a great open Place at the crossing of four roads.

  • In its proportions it resembles the log cabin of the Canadian backwoods more than it does the East Indian bungalow, though it is hardly more comfortable or roomy than the wigwam of the red man.

  • It is hardly more than a reminiscence, however, and while not in any way resembling the northern Gothic, at least in the Aquitanian species, hovers on the borderland between the sunny south and the more frigid north.

  • But toward the close of the Neolithic period we find the great stone chamber giving place to a small cyst or vault, hardly more than a stone coffin, and entirely underground.

  • He has a permanent home even if it is hardly more than a hut, which is the centre of his life and thought.

  • The axe of the kitchen-midden[99] is hardly more than a disk struck off from a flint nucleus, with two sides broken off and the top of the triangular remnant removed.

  • Hardly more than a child in years, she was easily the most dramatic reader in the school.

  • The school was in truth a very primitive institution, hardly more than a high school, but it served its purpose.

  • Hardly more than a boy at this time, he met me with the friendliest smile, and in our talk we discovered many common lines of thought.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came round; could hardly; different portions; external force; fashionable life; good meat; hardly able; hardly conscious; hardly ever; hardly fair; hardly knew; hardly know; hardly less; hardly necessary; hardly possible; hardly think; hardly worth; however humble; judicial astrology; many pictures; negro school; officers and; similar spirit; that way; this effect; white steed