"hardly" in the Big Book

Mercifully, no one could guess that I was to have no real employment for five years, or hardly draw a sober breath.

I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely daylight.

If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of the problem would hardly be scratched.

We doubt if many of them can do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.

But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.

The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.

We’d hardly be human if we didn’t.

They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing them.

Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.

Not long afterward he had called me from Hartford on two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.

Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they number sixty or eighty as a rule.