It must be admitted that, with all the rare qualities of Disraeli's literary work, he hardly ever took it quite seriously, or except as an interlude and with some ulterior aim.
He hardly ever drew a character or painted a scene, even of the most subordinate kind, which he had not studied from the life with minute care, and whenever he did for a moment wander out of his limits, he made an egregious failure.
But if you were to see them in their own home you would hardly recognize them; for a wild canary that is yellow all over is hardly ever seen.
During the daytime the aard-vark is hardly ever to be seen, for it lies fast asleep in its burrow, which it seldom leaves till after sunset.
But perhaps you do not know that the Indian lion hardly ever has a mane.
The owner of the nest, strange to say, hardly ever seems to notice when she comes back that there is a strange egg among her own, although very often it is not in the least like them in color and markings.
One practitioner in Dorset laid in a large stock of arsenic, wherewith he "hardly ever failed to stop the fits soon[677].
Faith, I believe yours lay some days at the post-office, and that it came before my eighteenth went, but that I did not expect it, and I hardly ever go there.
Never or hardly ever, as we said, was Oath sworn with such heart-effusion, emphasis and expenditure of joyance; and then it was broken irremediably within year and day.
He hardly ever affects us; and is seldom capable of agitating our minds.
Cato, who ought to be the soul of the whole, is hardly ever shown to us in action; nothing remains for him but to admire himself and to die.
While walking over the boat I met a gentlemen who I thought had money (and I hardly ever made a mistake in my man).
I told him I hardly ever played, but I saw a fellow playing a game with three cards that beat anything I ever saw, but it took a smart one to play it.
I said, "Hardly ever, but I do not care if I play a while.
It is certainly not venal; it is hardly ever malign.
Jules Favre, with his exquisitely modulated tones, and his unrivalled choice of words, hardly ever appears to me to rise to that height where the orator, lost in his subject, compels his hearers to lose themselves also in it.
In one of his letters to Mr. Judd he begs him to pay him a visit, saying that since Lyell's death he hardly ever gets a geological talk.
He had a printed form to be used in replying to troublesome correspondents, but he hardly ever used it; I suppose he never found an occasion that seemed exactly suitable.
Hardly ever a man would turn round without he'd have one of them asking him what he was doing it for.
If you can't find Mary Ellen—and it's hardly ever she is to be found when she's wanted—you can fetch the bottle yourself.
There's hardly ever a winter but there's one or two of them up in Dublin for hospitals or the like.
In Modern English this ending is much more rare, and is hardly ever used as a full syllable of the verse.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hardly ever" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
