When they asked Boaz why he had not told what he knew as to the identity of that fugitive in the night, he seemed to find it hard to say exactly.

I have not told you, I think, that the name of the family is Acer, which means 'sharp' or 'hard,' and it was supposed to have been given in old English times when the wood of the maple was used for javelins.

"Perhaps not, after trying it and finding how much hard work there is in sugar-making," replied his governess.

To make it, we poured a small quantity of hot syrup on the snow to cool; and when it was fit to eat, it was just like wax, instead of being hard like the cakes in moulds.

A vessel supposed to be of his time has been discovered in the bed of a river in Kent, and after the lapse of so many centuries it is as sound as ever and as hard as iron.

The branch, you see, is hard and stiff-looking.

The wood, too, is very hard and durable, and, as it takes a fine polish, it is used for making many ornamental articles.

The wood is white and hard and makes very good fuel, while the twigs are made into brooms for sweeping streets and courtyards.

The fragrant wood of the tree makes the fires which have to be kept up inside the huts even in summer to drive away the mosquitoes, and the people of those Northern regions would find it hard to get along without the useful birch.

217; Scotchman, not a, ii. 363, n. 4; studied hard, i. 71; iv. 21; v. 316; verses, his, iv. 23; Wasse's Greek Trochaics, v. 445.

He took the hand that rested on his arm and squeezed it hard.

He gave a short sketch of his life, by which it appeared that he went at an early period on a whaling voyage, and received some bodily injury which incapacitated him from hard labor for a long time.

Nevertheless, I feel bound to say to these excellent friends of the Marshpees, who wished them to remain crushed under the burthen of hard laws forever and ever, that they will go down to their graves in the disappointment, which, perhaps, will cause them to weep away their lives.

I never volunteered in this business, but was led into it by others, and it is truly a hard case that I must have all this trouble on their account.

But it is hard for Indians to contend in the courts of white men, against white men.

Hard firing need not be resorted to; indeed, it would be injudicious, as, of course, priming must be carefully guarded against.

They carry a longitudinal projection and an inflation that fit by hard friction into two copper springs connected electrically with the circuit.

Open the head, remove the brain, and place transverse and longitudinal sections of it in spirits for eighteen hours, then transfer to a solution of one drachm chromic acid in a quart of water, and let it remain until hard enough to cut.

A razor of good steel, with a blade thin and hard, are the most essential points in an instrument for hand cutting.

Canada balsam may be prepared as follows: Place some pure Canada balsam in a saucer, and cover with paper to exclude dust; dry it in an oven at a temperature of 150°; when it cools, it will become hard and crystalline.

On cooking some of the larger ones by boiling for half an hour, we found them still rather hard, and with a flavor of potatoes, almost concealed under a strong earthy taste, quite disagreeable and soap-like.

We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.

Books, love, business, religion, alcohol, abstract truth, private emotion, money, simplicity, mysticism, hard work, a life close to nature, a life close to Belgrave Square are every one of them passionately maintained by somebody to be so good that they redeem the evil of an otherwise indefensible world.

But the whole of his essential and unconscious being was spirited and confident, and that unconscious being, long disguised and buried under emotional artifices, suddenly sprang into prominence in the face of a cold, hard, political necessity.

Churchill had grave and even gross faults, a certain coarseness, a certain hard boyish assertiveness, a certain lack of magnanimity, a certain peculiar patrician vulgarity.