Toby and I will find it a hard matter to paddle the canoe back without him.
Parched with thirst as we were, it was a hard matter for us to restrain our eagerness.
The drawbridge is raised and the portcullis closed, so that a thieving Redskin would find it a hard matter to make his way in.
An' the young ladies are in a sad way; so that the captain finds it a hard matter to comfort them, an' he'll be glad to have you to help him.
It was a hard matter to tell what they wanted; but eight of us went there at the time.
It was a hard matter to get reporters that night, it being Saturday night, and the daily reporters being all off and at home, it was very difficult to get them.
But it was a hard matter to stop Favonius, wherever his wildness hurried him; for he was fierce in all his behavior, and ready to do anything to get his will.
All which things being rightly considered, it is a hard matter to give judgment.
Antigonus understanding by some prisoners he had taken that Eumenes was out of health, to that degree that he was carried in a litter, presumed it would be no hard matter to crush the rest of them, since he was ill.
Why, we may pretend what we will: but 'tis a hard matter to live without the Man we love.
We ought to do so, indeed; but 'tis a hard matter.
And yet, methinks, 'tis a hard Matter to break their Hearts.
Thus, one would think 'twere a hard matterto please 'em, Niece; yet our kind Mother Nature has given us something that makes amends for all.
I find it a hard matter to do so," groaned Ashurst, "but I will try.
It will be a hard matter to rouse them up," he thought.
It would be a hard matter to hold on to the grating, over which the sea frequently washed.
Arrah now, sure, I am altogether turned into a big fish with this long swim, and it will be a hard matter to take to walking again on the dry earth!
Shure it would be a hard matter to grow sugar or coffee on that sort of ground!
I had a hard matter to myself, when I went over to Dean to fetch her, come four years ago this next Christmas.
I had a hard matter to persuade her, Tom, but I managed it at last, and she is with Frances now.
Miss," observed Nurse, "even that sour stiff-backed lady would have a hard matterto call him fat.
I had a hard matter to get her to see the young doctor even.
That I doubt; for leaving all is a hard matter; yea, a harder matter than many are aware of.
And hence it cometh to pass, that it is a hard matter, and by many thought impossible to distinguish exactly between Sense and Dreaming.
They had wanted to make him go, but the women said he must stop behind, though he had a hard matter to escape from the men.
Her father and brother had been lost some years before, crossing in a wherry from Ryde, and her widowed mother had found it a hard matter to keep herself and her children out of the workhouse.
He found it a hard matter to cling on to the piece of wreck, for the seas were constantly washing over him.
The weather was changing for the worse, and should the wind come from the northward, they would have a hard matter to escape being wrecked, even could they keep the ship afloat.
Our first lieutenant then shouted for `boarders to repel boarders,' but as the French crew doubled ours, we should have found it a hard matter to do that.
I may as well try to give the yarn in his own words, though that may be a hard matter, and I can scarcely hope to do full justice to his narrative.
Gibson, both Marines and young Men, found means to get away from the Fort (which was now no hard matter to do) and in the morning were not to be found.
That is no hard matter to tell thee," she answered; "she is in her chamber apart.
No hard matter to answer," said Labraid; "we must go forth and make a circuit about the army.
When Callistratus the Sophist lived here, it was a hard matter to dine at any place besides his house; for he was so extremely courteous and obliging, that no man whom he invited to dinner could have the face to say him nay.
These things being laid down as a foundation, it will be no hard matter to find out the cause.
The whale, however, darted away, towing the boats for a league or more farther off, and we then had a hard matter to kill it.
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