The valley, as far as can be seen, is not extensive, and, being very crooked, it is hard to tell what its general direction is.

" It was hard to tell if this explanation comforted the mother.

"It certainly is hard to tell where a woman will set up complaints and where she will suddenly not know either fear or obstacles!

"Some might be; it is hard to tell how many.

When a quarrel has been long carried on between individuals, it is often very hard to tell by whom it was begun.

It seemed hard to tell; Nature, it appeared, was formally set out for show, as in the artificial old French gardens, and amid its strange, carefully arranged scenes, passed and repassed troops of men and women, all clad as for a masquerade.

In all ways, in fact, she was the opposite of Flavia Titianait was hard to tell whether from natural preference or because the contrast to his wife's extremes of noisy gaiety and shameless license gave her a stronger hold on Pertinax.

Usually the stunts are so different that it is hard to tell which is the better, but having two performances on the same subject gives a rare chance to consider the fine points.

"That would be hard to tell," Frank replied.

"It is hard to tell; a gamble in which one takes steep chances!

They were the duties, in a word, which one performs as member of one or another social class or subdivision, wholly distinct from what one does as A. by himself A. What invisible power put these functions on me, it would be very hard to tell.

"I've been so upset, it's hard to tell.

She evidently had heard something about Nat Turner, but it would be hard to tell what.

The Bible defences thrown around slavery by professed ministers of the Gospel, do so torture common sense, Scripture, and historical facts it were hard to tell whether absurdity, fatuity, ignorance, or blasphemy, predominates in the compound; each strives so lustily for the mastery it may be set down a drawn battle.

Our question to them was always the same, "Where are the Germans?" Out of the conflicting reports it was hard to tell whether the Germans were heading this way or not.

And so admirably are these authorities or opinions balanced and offset, one class against an other, that it is hard to tell which has the odds.

What were his ideas and sentiments it were hard to tell: he never expressed any.

It was so dim and uncertain that it was hard to tell what it meant; somehow, somewhere, some time, "the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head."

So good and bad in one for me, and so hard to tell and say no more!

She cried piteously for her mother when she awoke, and I had to tell her that which it is so hard to tell a child.

In long winter nights it was hard to tell who enjoyed sportfulness the better, the children who romped the floor, or the parents who, with lighted countenance, looked at them.

MICUS Tis hard to tell!

It would have been comparatively easy to write it, but with him there where she could look into his face and watch the dark expression which was sure to come into his eyes, it was hard to tell him that Frank Van Buren had held the first place in her affections, if indeed he did not hold it now.

What would have happened if such a young man as Albert had been her son, it would be hard to tell.

When they begin going down the last hill it ain't hard to tell when they'll reach the bottom.