But the seven singles she recorded for Decca were standard ballads that hardly troubled the country charts.

By them the miller's dog lay sprawled in the hot sun, hardly troubling to open an eye as I drew rein in the shade of the buildings.

Then coming from the street, entering some room, there are people talking, or hardly troubling to talk.

Efraim hardly troubled to dissemble his ignorance.

The clamor on the docks at midmorning, the stifling noon heat in the hold hardly troubled his dreams.

He hardly troubled to look up when they reappeared in the doorway, but he said, with biting sarcasm: 'Well, have you finished your snooping?'

The thin thread of blood trickling down his neck from the prick of the dagger hardly troubled him, and was already drying.

The verdict hardly troubled his daily existence; if anything, things improved.

We hardly troubled to eat, we hardly knew we were eating.

The forgotten years hardly troubled him more than they had done in the first weeks at Dr Forester's home.