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Example sentences for "hard master"

  • All that he could say of his owner, was, that he was a "hard master," from whom he was very glad to escape.

  • Lewis, a store-keeper, and a "hard master.

  • Daniel said: "I don't find much to do, I find that I have not got a hard master to deal with.

  • Necessity is a hard master; none know it better than the slave woman.

  • Necessity 's a hard master, sir; and in this very act is the test more trying than I have ever known it.

  • She laid hold upon the garment of a hard master, a tyrannical God.

  • God was not a hard master; if she had made a mistake, he would pardon her, and either give her work here, where she found herself, or send her elsewhere.

  • You were complaining of me as a hard master, were you not?

  • You count him a hard master, and will not stir.

  • As to any notion of prevailing by entreaty over an unwilling God, that is heathenish, and belongs to such as think him a hard master, or one like the unjust judge.

  • I shall get nothing by it, but I can not bear to think that a person so wise and amiable should be shut up in this gloomy dungeon, under a hard master, and a slave to the unreasonable tyranny of his BOOK OF LAWS.

  • Don't complain and take advantage of my absence, and call me a hard master, and grumble that you are placed in the midst of a howling wilderness without peace or security.

  • You see, you must not infer, from what I have told you, that Alfred is what is called a hard master; for he isn't.

  • Therefore, whatever I might think of his endeavours to uphold the mischievous errors of Webb Hall, I could have no suspicion that he was a hard master.

  • This could not be the case if the Duke were a cruel or hard master; and this is an act of justice due from me to the descendant of Rollo.

  • Indeed the evidence of the elder Mr. Ellman was so fair, so honest, and so useful, particularly as relating to the labourers, that I could not possibly suspect him of being a cruel or hard master.

  • The Lord has not laid upon us a burden which is too heavy for us; he is not a hard master.

  • They have to remind God that he is not a hard master, not an unkind being, but a most loving Father, who has abundantly proved the love of his heart in the gift of his only begotten Son.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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