When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay.
The wood of several species is of a reddish color, hard and durable, and is used in cabinetwork under the names of red cedar, Bermuda cedar, etc.
By the end of his Freshman year he had given up all attempts to be a poet and to extract nourishment from the college classes, which were as hard and unpalatable as dried codfish.
The obvious leader of the party, Loren Pierce, a rich quarryman, was an old man of medium size and mean attire, with a square, beardless face as hard and impassive in expression as one of his blocks of limestone.
The words rose in their order on his memory, hard and sharp-edged, like arrow-heads.
There everything is hard and fast; nothing is elastic; there is no room for compromise.
The pulse is frequent, perhaps 70 or more a minute, and is hard and wiry.
It is accompanied with a persistent cough, which in some cases is husky, smothered, or muffled, while in others it is hard and clear.
The pulse in peritonitis is rather characteristic; it is quickened, beating from 70 to 90 beats a minute, and is hard and wiry.
Hot fomentations or poultices are sometimes required for a day or two after an abscess has opened, and are particularly indicated when the base of the abscess is hard and indurated.
Much grace to little sack, and texts flying about as hard and as jagged as flint stones.
You'll find men and women just as hard and selfish in their small way.
Howard, shaking her hand and feeling how hard and work-worn it was.
There was no turf, and the loose mould was baked hard and smooth, evidently by the sole of a boot or shoe.
The turf, hard and dry, only showed the tracks of a horse when going in a gallop.
There were stretches of the prairie where the turf, hard and dry, had taken no impression.
If allowed to get too ripe, it is hard and wiry, and not relished by cows.
The manyplus, or omasum (third stomach), frequently becomes so choked up with food that it is hard and dry, and the operation of the digestive organs is very seriously impaired.
Bean-straw uncooked having been found to be hard and unpalatable, it was steamed to make it soft and pulpy, when it possessed an agreeable odor, and imparted its flavor to the whole mass.
She had to count every shell from top to toe of 'em, which made it hard and wearin' both for her and them she wuz conversin' with.
Thirdly, Malt that is truly made will not be hard and steely, but of so mellow a Nature, that if forced against a dry Board, will mark and cast a white Colour almost like Chalk.
He was the enemy, fine as a diamond, and as hard and jewel-like, the quintessence of all that was inimical.
His mind, hard and acute, read on rapidly, his body understood nothing.
Since the scorching days of summer the fountains of heaven had been stayed, and now the winter wildfowl from the north were pouring in only to find the marisma as hard and arid as the deserts of Arabia Petraea.
Hard and impervious to shot as I well knew these great raptores to be, I was hardly prepared to see him rise again, and could not have believed what followed.
Attempting to re-cook cold potatos renders them more hard and tough.
Knead it hard and thoroughly, leaving no lumps in it, and continue to knead till the dough leaves your hands.
Peas, so old as to behard and yellow, are unfit to eat.
If stirred inhard and fast it will render the cake porous and tough, and dry and hard when cold.
Pack the sausage-meat down, hard and closely, into stone jars, which must be kept in a cool place, and well covered.
They have an outer husk, or rind, which when green is hard and has a very pleasant smell; the tree then seems to be covered with green balls.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
