It rained hard.

The boards were hard.

Is dying hard, Daddy?

It was stiff and hard to lift out of the wagon.

She was thinking about him hard and then Jim came out.

It was hard to lift such a big jug up to drink out of it.

“Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?” Nick asked.

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.

Jim held her tight hard against the chair and she wanted it now and Jim whispered, “Come on for a walk.”

The hemlock planks of the dock were hard and splintery and cold and Jim was heavy on her and he had hurt her.

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.