Tough and hard are the sinews; not so the child in your bosom.

how hard are the paths of saintliness!

They who loathe to be dependent Now for alms are forced to ask Hard is mill-work, but, believe me, Begging is the bitterest task.

Hard is their shallow soil, and bleak and bare; Nor ever vernal bee was heard to murmur there!

LVII "Bad is the world, and hard is the world's law

Tough and hard are the sinews, not so the child in your bosom.' Ahmi, Ahmi, sleep, little one, wake not.

So hard is it to show the various meaning and imperfection of words, when we have nothing else but words to do it by.

So cold and hard is war!

"You should hear Mr. Clayhanger on the men, if you want to know what hard is.

"And hard is the choice" (as it is in Euphues) "when one is compelled either by silence to die with grief, or by speaking to live with shame."

Hard is his lot that, here by fortune plac'd, Must watch the wild vicissitudes of taste; With ev'ry meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day.

Thou shalt experience how salt is the taste of bread eaten at the expense of others; how hard is the going up and down others' stairs.

(oh, how hard is my fate.)

I am the eldest, and my father sends me out in the harvest to glean in the corn-fields, for we have no field of our own to reap, and the little money for which father toils so hard is barely enough to procure our daily bread; but I can fill this bag in a day if I work diligently, and I hope to make a little store against winter, when father is often unemployed, and earning nothing.

" "And is it hard being a soldier?

Hard is the heart that does not melt with ruth, 18.

People that have to work hard are usually honest and have sympathy and affection and try to amount to something.

It is now indeed an unhappiness, the disease of the soul: it flies from a shadow, and makes more dangers than it avoids; it weakens the judgment and betrays the succors of reason: so hard is it to tremble and not to err, and to hit the mark with a shaking hand.

A set of men who work very hard are those who go with the steam-ploughing tackle.

but I was unmoved; how hard am I.He like some of his brethren harps at the gown and cassock.

Hard is the finish'd Speaker's task; what then Must be our danger, to pursue the pen Of the 'rapt Bard, through all his varied turns, Where joy extatic smiles, or sorrow mourns?

But de sick wife kissed his brow: "Sun, don't get down-hearted now; Ef we only pay expense We mus' wuk we common-sense, Cut an' carve, an' carve an' cut, Mek gill sarbe fe quattiewut; We mus' try mek two ends meet Neber mind how hard be it.

For all seeds which are small and hard are slow in germinating, while those which are soft are more spontaneous, just as girls grow faster than boys.

Here will I stay, for this the covert is Where I appointed Cloe; do not miss, Thou bright-ey'd virgin, come, O come my fair, Be not abus'd with fear, nor let cold care Of honour stay thee from the Shepherds arm, Who would as hard be won to offer harm To thy chast thoughts, as whiteness from the day, Or yon great round to move another way.

A Confessor was caugh t'other day rather jolly, Who observed, "When a man has committed a folly, If he has any sense left, hastens straightway to me, When, confessing his guilt, I can soon set him free; But how hard is my fate!