1 They are hardly considered the thing.
2 It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
3 I happen to be more than usually hard up.
4 You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest.
5 They will hardly venture to come after us there.
6 Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
7 It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
8 However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.
9 It would hardly have been a really serious engagement if it hadn't been broken off at least once.
10 I need hardly tell you that in families of high position strange coincidences are not supposed to occur.
11 You can hardly have forgotten that some one very closely connected with you was very nearly carried off this week in Paris by a severe chill.
12 It is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, a terrible disappointment to me, but the fact is I have just had a telegram to say that my poor friend Bunbury is very ill again.
13 And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's health or one's happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes.