Harder [adjective]

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

He sighed as he laid the papers on the table; for he thought the task would be a harder one than even his own immolation.

He worked fiercer than ever—harder than the day-labourer—at his place of business.

With each advance in invention and mechanical power it works harder still.

Closing the holes again and blowing harder, we get the scale an octave higher.

A harder fate awaited the foremost knightly defenders of Kildrummy.

And not only the ladies, but some of the harder sex: the Earl of Athol, Barbour says, could hold out no longer on any terms.

Yet, the harder I stared the clearer appeared the amazing and monstrous apparition.

Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.

Then if each end of the log is on the upper side of the trees, the harder the water pounds the tighter the dam gets.