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Example sentences for "would hardly"

  • In the slaughter of bright youth that is going on, it would hardly be expected that not one out of the four would be killed or wounded.

  • Perhaps he imagined him so overcome by his defeat that he would hardly dare to hold aloof from him.

  • After all, it would hardly be polite to go, as he was of the riding party.

  • It would hardly do to overwhelm the old lady with so large a company at once," said the captain, and they promptly carried out his suggestion.

  • I think so; it would hardly do to visit Quebec and neglect so important a place.

  • In these days we would hardly consider a man of that age extremely old, though certainly not young.

  • He would hardly hear me out with patience.

  • I fancied he would hardly challenge me about the billet, as he is the most careless man in the universe.

  • Under such a view variations might indeed be said to belong to the acquired group of organic specifications; their inheritance, as will be seen later on, would hardly be quite a pure instance of what we are searching for.

  • But it would hardly be found very suggestive to write the history of space-volumes.

  • Here, however, the obligation is not so clear: for it would hardly be said that a man is bound to dispel all erroneous expectations that he may know to be formed respecting his conduct, at the risk of being required to fulfil them.

  • A complete synthesis of these different methods is not attempted in the present work: at the same time it would hardly be satisfactory to conclude the analysis of them without some discussion of their mutual relations.

  • The only new piece of furniture that she did buy was a hanging cupboard so tall that it would hardly go under the blackened and sagging ceiling.

  • As he would hardly be likely to take himself off before she had answered his question, Amory did not reply at once.

  • He would hardly want a wife when he possessed the heroine of a Feminist Crusade, she hardly a husband when she had an ally placed by his sex in the fortress that, whether by beleaguering or by assault, must be won.

  • It would hardly do to stab Myrtle Hazard, and shoot Byles Gridley, and strangle Mrs. Hopkins, every one of which homicides he felt at the moment that he could have committed.

  • It would hardly do to describe him directly, you know.

  • I think his peculiar birthright gives him a certain confidence in his whims and fancies which but for that he would hardly feel.

  • But these neighbours of yours, as to whose collected wisdom you speak with so much certainty, would hardly recommend me to indulge in a luxury for which I have no means of paying.

  • Certainly I do, or for any other dear girl in the world; excepting that Griselda, who is not clever, would hardly be able to appreciate Miss Crawley, who is clever.

  • He was a little afraid of Mr Crawley, acknowledging tacitly to himself that the man had a power of ascendancy with which he would hardly be able to cope successfully.

  • I have just fought, would hardly suit me; I have lost too much blood at Boulogne; at the slightest effort my wounds would open again, and you would really have too good a bargain.

  • He who, a quarter of an hour previously, would hardly yield up his own rooms for a million francs, was now ready to expend a million, if it were necessary, upon the acquisition of the two happy rooms he coveted so eagerly.

  • And so we were told that the Forest flies would hardly care to bite a Forest horse, but at once attacked a strange one and sent him wild.

  • It would take one a week, or even a fortnight, to see all the sights about Durham; he would hardly in that time, methinks, be tired of the walks around the town and by the banks of the winding Weir.

  • It would hardly be too much to say that at this moment I feel perfectly happy and content, and that is surely saying a deal in a world like this.

  • I may err, but it seems to me that if more confidence was put in it by the traveling public, it would hardly be so.

  • To be sure, there are a few shares under peculiar circumstances bought in by the Company; but it would hardly be the thing to convert this boat into the Company's office.

  • The letters, therefore, even if examined, would hardly be comprehended.

  • Since he refused to return that fugitive slave to Kentucky, he would hardly be permitted to stay in New Orleans; at all events, I should oppose it.

  • He would hardly agree to that; indeed he might even prove, and that without difficulty, that he really was following his instincts in the highest sense.

  • Although one has heard of a rattle-snake, it would hardly be appropriate to describe a lizard or a blind-worm as a rattle-snake, simply because one was startled by their rustling.

  • For it would hardly be permissible to pronounce a judgment on a life like Nietzsche's.

  • This plant is so different in general appearance from the majority of the Rose family that the amateur would hardly associate it with the others.


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