Use hard in a sentence
Sentences starting with hard
- Hard conditions; he would take the stripes--a king might do that, but a king could not beg. [5]
- Hard as it was for Sonya, she watched her friend and did not let her out of her sight. [2]
- Hard work will train it off, as sharp exercise trains off the fat of a prize-fighter. [3]
- Hard by, below the cliff, and close to the sea, was a tavern, at the sign of the Cock. [10]
- Hard to bear, that persistent standing still, and the food wasting away. [5]
- Hard by the spacious and lofty rotunda, in which ten thousand spectators could be seated, stood the most fashionable gymnasia and riding-schools. [10]
- Hard cash, you know. [5]
- Hard trip, because it was one of those trains that gets tired every seven minutes and stops to rest three quarters of an hour. [5]
- Hard work relieved him; still, when the day had passed, his unrest returned. [13]
- Hard as she had tried to prepare herself, and now tried to remain tranquil, she knew that she would be unable to look at him without tears. [2]
Sentences ending with hard
- I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
- Why was he working so hard? [11]
- And he had worked hard at school, very hard. [11]
- By the high wall of the valley where no man bides there is a path which leads to the Bar of Balmud; but leave it not, whether it go up or down or be easy or hard. [11]
- I work very, very hard. [11]
- That evening it turned bitter cold, and without the ammunition promised by Phips, with little or no food and useless field-pieces, their lot was hard. [11]
- I have become too hard. [9]
- Give me time to think," she said with dry lips, her heart beating hard. [11]
- He was superior to the situation, though it was apparent in his pale face and rigid manner that he had been struck hard. [11]
- He can't bear to see the whip used, or to see a horse pull hard. [5]
Short sentences using hard
- All this hard work lost! [5]
- These are hard words. [5]
- This stingy, hard, unhappy man. [11]
- It was hard to say. [6]
- It is hard to remember. [5]
- But I kept thinking hard. [11]
- Why is life so hard? [9]
- It is hard, so hard. [5]
- Don't take it so hard. [5]
- True, but hard of application. [6]
Sentences containing hard two or more times
- Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
- How hard, how unspeakably, terribly hard it was for this woman, with the youthful face and white locks, to remain quiet! [10]
- Crozier looked out towards the northwestern horizon, and in the distance was a woman riding as hard as her horse could go, with a man galloping hard after her. [11]
- Verily, here in this humble place dwelt a love that defied the hard usage of a hard world! [9]
- And now it struck her that it must be hard, very hard to die, in the midst of all this splendor. [10]
- Dragons as a rule have had a hard rime in their youths, and believe in others having a hard time. [9]
- And then I remembered that a pyx is a sacred vessel, and quartz is a hard stone, as hard as the heart of a religious foe-curser. [6]
- For he not only works hard and suffers humiliation in getting his place in society, but after he is in he works just as hard, and with bitterness in his heart, to keep out other parvenues like himself. [4]
- Buell's old troops, now in pursuit of Bragg, have done more hard marching recently; and, in fact, if you include marching and fighting, there are scarcely any old troops east or west of the mountains that have not done as hard service. [7]
- Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm. [5]
More example sentences with the word hard in them
- A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
- You live by your smallness, another makes his living with his hard hands, I earn my scanty bread by the thoughts of my brain. [10]
- You must leave your scholars without any leave-taking, however hard it may appear to you. [10]
- They are aware, your honour, that he and you knew each other in Ireland, and they think you are hard on him. [11]
- Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck. [5]
- He can make your bed hard or soft at the citadel. [11]
- All right,--said the young fellow.--I would n't be hard on the poor little-- The word he used was objectionable in point of significance and of grammar. [6]
- Will that satisfy you, O philosopher hard to be appeased? [10]
- The trouble with you, my dear Hugh, is that you have never failed," she went on, "you've never had a good, hard fall, you've always been on the winning side, and you've never had the world against you. [9]
- And now, since you will not put me quite at my ease by assuming, in words, that I have been properly 'chaperoned' here, I must inform you that my father waits hard by--is, as my riotous young brother says, 'without on the mat. [11]
- I am sure you will excuse me for remaining in Illinois, where much hard work is still to be done. [7]
- An' I'd like you to see jest how hard an' cruel this border life is. [13]
- You'll prove that you threw a stone, or it shall go hard with you. [5]
- How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing? [6]
- But remember that you may have to face hard things. [9]
- I know that you have felt hard towards me for turning over the canoe, and for knowing too much and leading you round and round in the snow--but I meant well; forgive me. [5]
- It will do you good--you are working too hard here. [9]
- For four hard years he had been denied the free air of free men. [11]
- For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
- Mr. Penhallow was writing hard at his table, not thinking of him, it was plain enough. [6]
- Some of our writers have pressed rather too hard on the tendencies of the human soul toward evil as such. [6]
- He rubbed his wrist, which had been squeezed by Pentaur's iron fingers, and said in a tone which betrayed all the bitterness of his feelings: "Thy hand is hard, Priest, and thy words hit like the strokes of a hammer. [10]
- How hard she would strive to be worthy of this incomparable gift! [9]
- Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor. [11]
- How hard this would fall on him! [10]
- I guess it would be pretty hard to get it across to you, Mrs. Pindar. [9]
- I suppose it would be hard to match this in any country. [5]
- We are much worried about him, because he has worked so hard this summer. [9]
- It was hard work, but she did not mind it much. [4]
- Lecturing was hard work, but he was under the "base necessity," as he called it, of constant labor, writing in summer, speaking everywhere east and west in the trying and dangerous winter season. [6]
- It is hard work to resist this grinding-down action.--Now give me a chance. [6]
- It is hard work to make a speech when you have listened to compliments from the powers in authority. [5]
- I had hard work to keep my temper, but I knew that I must not lose it. [9]
- I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
- It was hard work to do this, she plunged so, and so beat and belabored the billows with her rising and falling bows. [5]
- Take back your words, mother, take back your words, or--" Katuti turned paler and paler, and said soothingly: "The words may sound hard, but he has broken faith with you, and openly dishonored you. [10]
- Tom said the words which Hertford put into his mouth from time to time, and tried hard to acquit himself satisfactorily, but he was too new to such things, and too ill at ease to accomplish more than a tolerable success. [5]
- When you have won the woman for whom you yearn, the throne, and the sceptre, will your sore heart be healed and happiness make its joyous entry, and also remain in your soul, that is so hard to satisfy? [10]
- She was very woman, eager for the power which she had lost, and power was hard to get--by what devious ways had she travelled to find it! [11]
- He learnt everything without any trouble and at the same time worked as hard as a poor man's son. [10]
- If I were within sight of Jolicoeur's saloon, I should be drinking hard this minute. [11]
- I was wroth with the hard and bitter world for its cruelty; yet it was in truth that very world, and its pitiless call to duty, which at that time rescued me from worse things. [10]
- So it did with me, too, perhaps not quite so hard as you may have supposed. [7]
- If you'll come with me I'll give you a drink of hard cider, the best was ever made. [11]
- Presently she said with incredible quietness, "Do not force me to do hard things. [11]
- If you are wise and diligent, you can establish relations with the best of them which they will find it very hard to break. [3]
- His desertion of William Pitt I found hard to forgive. [9]
- The Golden Stag will know hard times. [5]
- The poor thing will have a hard time at her employer's. [10]
- Still, Joe Twichell will doubtless go with me (forgot that,) he is going to try hard to. [5]
- Sometime the glove will be too hard and cold on a man's shoulder, and then!--Well, I should like to be there," said Pierre, showing his white teeth. [11]
- No doubt it will be hard to you to crave a boon, but ought you to shrink from those few steps over sharp stones? [10]
- But do come--it will be hard on me to part from you again. [10]
- But the Notary's wife had wormed the secret from her husband, and she found it hard to keep. [11]
- Exercise now a wider compassion, and reflect that Fate has called you to take care of a hapless creature raving in fever and hard to deal with. [10]
- A tall fellow, whose gait and clothes proclaim him English, with a hard face and lack-lustre eyes, saunters about; his friends at home suppose he is making his fortune in America. [4]
- Her oldest son, who on account of hip disease was not fit for hard work, helped her, and the youngest was Ortel, who had carried Eva's basket on the day of her dead mother's consecration. [10]
- The unfortunate wretch who fired the train was killed by the explosion, and lay buried hard by, his hands sticking out of the shallow grave into which he had been huddled. [6]
- But as the whites were protected by the fort, and the Indians were treacherous by nature, it was decided that the latter might use the hard missiles. [4]
- From this client while in a state of abject subjection, Berry, whose heart was hard that day, but whose diplomacy was impeccable, discovered a thing of moment. [11]
- Was it that which was working in his mind, and making him say hard things about their own two commendable selves? [11]
- In the charge which the New Englander ordered, Iberville and Perrot saw Gering, and they tried hard to reach him. [11]
- Well, one day when the shaft was down about eight foot, the rock got so hard that we had to put in a blast--the first blast'n' we'd ever done since Tom Quartz was born. [5]
- Years ago, just when the cotton-mills and the linen- mills were doing well, they came over with their English legislation, and made it hard going. [11]
- Willis kicked hard when it came to painting the oriel yellow, but an architect always takes it for granted he knows it all, and a--" "Fenelon," said Mrs. Cooke, "luncheon is waiting. [9]
- The Prophet, or whatever he was called, was a burly, bull-necked man of hard sense, really leading a great industrial army. [6]
- The smith understood what was passing in his mind, and said: "It is hard for you to go. [10]
- But then we were so hard up! [5]
- The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
- The two men were not hauled in, for the gale was blowing too hard, but they clung to the rescuing skiff. [11]
- If the aristocracy were malignant--though numbers of them were far from being so--there was also a malignant prejudice aroused against them, and M. Taine is not far wrong when he says of this prejudice, "Its hard, dry kernel consists of the abstract idea of equality. [4]
- These big blocks were hard, solid, and crystal-clear. [5]
- Dependence and helplessness were ever with her a far sorer trial than hard, racking pain. [14]
- For, notwithstanding there were certain hours in those days which brought me sweet love-making, and others of sheer mirth and vanity, yet is the spirit of man so tempered that, when great sorrow follows hard on the greatest joy it sufficeth to darken it wholly. [10]
- Here I am, well on the way to fifty, after twenty-five years of hard work, looking forward to the potential poor-house as confidently as I did in youth. [8]
- And my three weeks' hard work have got to go into the ignominious pigeon-hole. [5]
- One winter's night we were gathered there--it was the winter that for years afterward they called the hard winter--and that particular night was a sharp one. [5]
- In an instant we were down on our knees on the hard dirt floor, and there was a man's foot in a moccasin! [9]
- There's many a way to win in this world, but none of them is worth much without good hard work back out of it. [5]
- He worked his way through, and had a pretty hard time of it. [9]
- She was a washer and ironer, and knew enough by hard experience to keep money when she got it. [5]
- In fact, I was too late, but I begged so hard that the governor was touched by my brave devotion to my country's cause--those are the words he used--and so he yielded, and allowed me to come. [5]
- How hard it was to refrain from flinging in her teeth the crime her wicked son. [10]
- How hard it was to find the right answer, when she asked him whether he did not hope everything from the great physician's intervention, or when she inquired what were the works to which Galen owed his chief fame! [10]
- But if he was soft on the Arkansas mosquitoes, he was hard enough on the mosquitoes of Lake Providence to make up for it--'those Lake Providence colossi,' as he finely called them. [5]
- A heavy sea was running, the gale was blowing hard from the north-east, and under the close-hauled sail the Belle Suzanne was lying over dangerously. [11]
- The driver's beat was pretty long, and his sleeping-time at the stations pretty short, sometimes; and so, but for the grandeur of his position his would have been a sorry life, as well as a hard and a wearing one. [5]
- Overhead, the sun was pouring out a flood of light and warmth, and though it was bitterly cold, life was beating hard in the bosom of the West. [11]
- Mrs. Clemens, herself, was not in the best of health at this time, but devotion to her father took her to his bedside, where she insisted upon standing long, hard watches, the strain of which told upon her severely. [5]
- By consequence, he was not in a pleasant place now, and was having a right hard time. [5]
- Yes, this one was lifting from its bed on the hard earth beneath. [9]
- Pretty Pierre's face was less pretty than usual; the cheeks were pallid, the eyes were hard and cold. [11]
- The motive power was lacking, and no matter how hard I tried, I was only half-hearted, and he realized it instinctively--no amount of feigning could deceive him. [9]
- In short, he was informed in so many words that every tie that bound her to him must be broken in favor of another, and the hypocritical regret with which she sought to cover up the hard facts only made him doubly indignant. [10]
- He supposed I was having a bitter hard time of it. [5]
- You have "--it was hard, but the man's wound was mortal, and it must be said "you have consecrated our new church with your blood. [11]
- If Mark Twain was hard up in search of, a French "chestnut," I might have told him the following little anecdote. [5]
- Of course, he was hard at it. [5]
- Even now Quebec was full of pilgrim poor begging against the hard winter, and execrating their spoilers. [11]
- At this junction was formerly a convict station called Port Arthur--a place hard to escape from. [5]
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