In fact, the rays could pass as easily through the fleshy part of his hand as through the black paper, but hardly at all through the bone.
As befits a nation originally settled by misfits, con-victs, adventurers, and religious fanatics (a demo-graphic mix that has changed hardly at all in nearly 400 years), the United States retains a strong flavour of intransigent noncooperation.
But these developments, in Henry's boyhood, had touched farming hardly at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done.
I can't move around hardly at all.