It rained hard.

He didn’t listen to me, he was listening so hard for the music to start.

It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.

Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty, with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.

The Indian who was rowing them was working very hard, but the other boat moved further ahead in the mist all the time.

Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.

I never saw this great-uncle, but I’m supposed to look like him⁠—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in father’s office.