Harder

Examples

• Have you found your first day's work harder than you expected? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He knows that it's hard to keep the mud off the crossing in dirty weather, and harder still to live by doing it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Gold is seldom used for any purpose in a state of perfect purity on account of its softness, but is combined with some other metal to render it harder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Some of the new metals discovered in the last century have in this century been combined with iron to make harder steel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Except that it is rather harder now, Venn continued. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But Scipio Africanus lacked that harder alloy which makes men great democratic leaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The strength of the blow depends on the hardness of the metal, and when one part is harder than another the workman alters his blows accordingly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yet the very vogue of the electric arc light made harder the arrival of the incandescent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It will be harder to read now than that palimpsest. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• By placing certain mixtures of carbon and sand, or of carbon and clay, between the terminals of a powerful current, a material resembling diamonds, but harder, has been produced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If I answer that question, I know you'll be at me with half a dozen others, each one harder than the last; and I'm not a going to define my position. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• BLISSFUL All this time, I had gone on loving Dora, harder than ever. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Possibly he did not even have a name, but in some way he hit upon a scheme for throwing stones farther, harder and straighter than any of his ancestors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Now he is struggling harder to get back. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If articles of jewelry were made of pure gold they would not wear well, as gold is a very soft metal, and it is, therefore, necessary to mix the gold with some harder substance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is something much more impersonal and harder--and rarer. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Hard as she had tried in her laborious life to attain many ends, she had never tried harder than she did now, to be varnished by Mrs General. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I could bear much harder trials--for John. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Look how this ha growen an' growen, sir, bigger an' bigger, broader an' broader, harder an' harder, fro year to year, fro generation unto generation. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I must work the harder, that's all, and I have given up my post at the Infirmary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He was also hotter than at first, and breathed harder. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• To think it out through the future, is a harder though a much shorter task than to think it out through the past. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Say what is to be done--that's a little harder. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But you do--you do make it harder to me, said Bulstrode constrained into a genuine, pleading cry. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The harder because you have been so considerate to me in all other respects and have done me kindnesses that I can never acknowledge. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• After this, Legree became a harder drinker than ever before. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But this very fact of her exceptional indulgence towards him made it the harder to Fred that he must now inevitably sink in her opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Lucia