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Example sentences for "hard service"

  • It was a sad sight for her crew to see us getting ready to go off the coast, while they, who had been longer on the coast than the Alert, were condemned to another year's hard service.

  • I have been through everything and have seen as hard service as any soldier in the Philippines, and have eaten as hard grub as any of them ever ate.

  • They served in this detail five months, and had plenty of hard service.

  • Soldiers who served under good officers were fortunate, but if they had bad ones they were soon in trouble and had a hard service.

  • The average horse that has been subjected to hard service on pavements or hard roads at fast work suffers synovial distension of bursae, thecae or of joint capsules.

  • However, in a general way, cases of recent affection are thought more favorable than are those of long standing or in old animals where myositis and other muscular and fascial affections exist owing to years of hard service.

  • No lameness marks the advent of this affection when it develops as the result of continuous strain and concussion occasioned by hard service, and local changes tend to remain in status quo.

  • He kept up as long as he had the power, but being somewhat worn out by hard service, he was indifferently calculated to weather out the rough work of this retreat.

  • After such a protracted course of hard service, and ceaseless marching, the quietness of even a temporary rest was a luxury most highly valued; although we knew not at what moment we might be called again into the field.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    days before; fell calm; grated bread; great throng; hard boiled; hard enough; hard luck; hard money; hard porcelain; hard pressed; hard rock; hard tack; hard task; hard upon; hard voice; hard water; hard words; hardly conscious; hardly fair; hardly less; hardly necessary; hardly possible; life interest; lunatic asylums; remarkably handsome; turning towards