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Since the author is more interested in the frayed lives and barely concealed despairs of his characters than in the mystery, he calls it a "half-hard," i.e., half-serious novel.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one could predict as yet whether she would ripen and become mellow and pleasant with time, or remain always half-hard and half-sour, as some fruits do.

From A Little Country Girl by Coolidge, Susan

Except timber, of which the risk is obvious, at a glance, nothing frightens the half-hard, so much as a brook.

From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John)

About his eyes there was the look, half-dull and half-hard, that comes in the eyes of young people unused to pain.

From Black Jack by Brand, Max

What's more I joshed him about the fine and dandy track he made every time he stepped in some half-hard mud that day after he left the shop.

From Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan