It was a difficult task to make him understand what I meant, but at last I thought I had succeeded in impressing on his mind the fact that I wished to buy them, and that they would be paid for at the store.
They got a party of men together accustomed to the use of the lasso--no difficult task here--and with them climbed from the neighbouring houses to the top of the church.
It was a difficult task in that heavy sea, and many times they failed, and we constantly feared that men, boat, and all were gone.
Off the town of Victoria the crowd of shipping is immense, and it became a difficult task to thread our way between the fleets of sampans and junks.
Kit Carson set himself to work, but found he had a difficult task to talk courage into these men.
The mounted hunter almost invariably finds it a difficult task to bring his charger even within shooting range of this kind of game.
In breaking up the hard prairies, this plough had a difficult task to perform and was often broken; but, by the assistance of men employed in clearing obstacles, such as sage bushes, etc.
It was a difficult task to find a man who had gazed on the lofty peaks of the mountain ranges which formed a serpentine division of the vast American Territories, or who had drank the waters at the camping places on the prairies.
It is not a difficult taskto praise a heroine, and one that should be indulged in but charily.
It was a difficult task in a novel to gather the elements necessary to picture this movement: the territory was vast, the types bewildering.
In truth it was a difficult task, for he pressed me again and again, and when he saw me firm, turned away to wipe his eyes upon his sleeve.
To attempt to explain to a New Yorker why any one might prefer to live in any other place would be a difficult task.
To procure a raven is now a difficult task, and can seldom be accomplished except by giving an order to the regular dealers.
Breaking them of the habit is a difficult task, but can be achieved with ordinary care.
I had to adapt words to the music of the choruses, always a difficult task.
The crowd will not stop, unless the man is proved to be mad; but to prove it is indeed a difficult task, because we have a crowd of men who, mad from their birth, are still considered wise.
The author has successfully accomplished a difficult task in writing a clever and practical book on the important subject of matrimony.
Emily had a difficult task to avoid self-reproach, in regulating her deportment on this occasion.
To seize the wooded ridge, while the cavalry held the Federals fast in front; to pass beyond Pritchard's Hill, and to cut the line of retreat on Winchester, seemed no difficult task.
It would be no difficult task to transfer his army by the broad reaches of the Potomac and the Chesapeake to some point on the Virginia coast, and to intervene between Centreville and Richmond.
To-day his officers have the more difficult task of stimulating his intelligence, while, at the same time, they instil the habits of subordination; and that such task may be successfully accomplished we have practical proof.
Most persons at some time in their lives are called upon to write letters of condolence, but it is usually found to be a difficult task.
The author of this book has attempted a difficult task, viz.
Besides, she had reached marriageable age; and if it is no easy matter for a match-making mother to marry her daughter in a populous town, it was a difficult task to find a husband for her in that desert.
It was rather a difficult task, for Radonic had few friends at Budua.
The captain was in hopes to start on the morrow; for at night it is a difficult task to steer a ship through that maze of sunken rocks and jagged reefs met with all along the entrance of the Val d'Ombla.
Not knowing the names of these evil spirits or their nature, it was a difficult task to find out the planet under which they were subjected, the sign which they obeyed, and what charm was potent enough to scare them away.
But Catholic colleges mast make moral men and Christians--and that, as we all know, is a difficult task, for the young heart is very wayward.
The smaller congregations find the suitable education of their postulants a difficult task.
Mr. Keon undertook a difficult task, one in which many have failed, when he ventured on introducing the august figure of our Lord into his picture.
It was a difficult task, since the eastern provinces were afraid (and not unjustly) that its much greater wealth would give Holland predominance in the proposed confederation.
An English governor would in any case have had a difficult task, and Leicester had neither tact nor capacity as a statesman, and no pretensions as a military leader.
It was a difficult task to carry them off at the ebb-tide, and it was not achieved without loss.
This was not a difficult task, for the water was as smooth as a mill pond and almost as motionless.
Here the boys landed, and seeing that the steepness of the bank would make it a difficult task to carry the canoes up--if indeed there was room to spare above--they tied them in a bunch to the roots of the tree.
This proved a difficult task, but it was finally accomplished.
The night was now well on us, and even had the weather been clear it would have been a difficult taskto make search in such a place, where the high cliffs all around shut out the possibilities of side light.
I knew that the blackmailers had possession of at least one cart; in any case, to men so desperate and reckless to get temporary possession of a few carts in a farming country like this would be no difficult task.
The tide was racing amongst the rocks, and even were there no waves it would have been a difficult task to have won through it into shore.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "difficult task" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
