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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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HARDLY   occurs   15 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... hardly.   12&12 p.89, Step Ten
Well, hardly.


2.
... hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they ...   BB p.161, A Vision For You   Go to page 161 in the Big Book
Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they number sixty or eighty as a rule.

3.
Hardly an alcoholic we approached paid any ...   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
Hardly an alcoholic we approached paid any attention; most of those who did join us were like flickering candles in a windstorm.


4.
... hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable ...   BB p.39, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 39 in the Big Book
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge.


5.
... hardly be a success.   BB p.60, How It Works   Go to page 60 in the Big Book
The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success.


6.
... hardly be human if we didn't.   BB p.69, How It Works   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
We'd hardly be human if we didn't.


7.
... hardly be scratched.   BB p.19, There Is A Solution   Go to page 19 in the Big Book
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.


8.
... hardly dared cross the street, lest I ...   BB p.6, Bill's Story   Go to page 6 in the Big Book
I hardly dared cross the street, lest I collapse and be run down by an early morning truck, for it was scarcely daylight.


9.
... hardly draw a sober breath.   BB p.4, Bill's Story   Go to page 4 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.


10.
... hardly fail to approve these simple principles, ...   BB p.130, The Family Afterward   Go to page 130 in the Big Book
They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing them.


11.
... hardly have been brought about by himself ...   BB p.567(569), Appendix II, Spiritual Experience   Display entire Appendix II
He finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change could hardly have been brought about by himself alone.


12.
Hardly one of our crowd now shows ...   BB p.133, The Family Afterward   Go to page 133 in the Big Book
Hardly one of our crowd now shows any mark of dissipation.


13.
... hardly one of them, because of the ...   BB p.33, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 33 in the Big Book
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.


14.
... hardly recognize them."   BB p.570(572), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
You would hardly recognize them."


15.
... hardly speak.   BB p.136, To Employers   Go to page 136 in the Big Book
Not long afterward he had called me from Hartford on two successive days, so drunk he could hardly speak.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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