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Example sentences for "hard upon"

  • And yet it is hard upon me, an old man, to lose all I held dear--very hard!

  • Sikes, looking up at the clock of St. Andrew's Church, 'hard upon seven!

  • You were perhaps a little cross, my love, but you don't think I am the man to be hard upon you," said the Rector.

  • After what's passed between you and me I ain't going to be hard upon you.

  • Come, Sir Thomas, you don't mean to be hard upon me at last.

  • Oh, Mary, my dear love, don't let us be hard upon her!

  • It is hard upon a woman, but yet it is a thing which every woman must confront and make up her mind to, whom God places in such circumstances.

  • Oh, my dear love, I know it must be hard upon you to see it," she said, apologizing as it were to the widow for the presence of joy.

  • I hope you will let me invite Barbara here when they are married, and pay her a little attention; for nobody likes her in Grange Lane, and it would be so hard upon him.

  • It would be hard upon me, sir, not to know my own cousin's name.

  • But how my mother contrived to know, that because she had been too hard upon Tom, he must be right about the necklace, is a point which I never could clearly perceive, though no doubt she could explain it.

  • One cannot be hard upon him," said the archdeacon.

  • It is hard upon you, though," she said; "you will see nothing of Florence.

  • And the bishop has been so hard upon him.

  • Mr. Mildmay, you must not be hard upon me--how can I?

  • She certainly, among her acquaintance, did quiz the new Cabinet minister not a little, and it may be a question whether she was not as hard upon him as the writer in the Jupiter.

  • Lady Lufton, I must say that you are very hard upon him--very hard.

  • But, nevertheless, we should not be hard upon him.

  • Well, I will not be hard upon you, Kit; because the Lord has done that quite enough.

  • Tom was very politic, but all the good there was in him seemed now to be on the surface, and while inwardly rebelling at his misfortune, he felt a thrill of joy in knowing that Jerrie was his cousin, and would not be hard upon him.

  • I would bid them pay when they can, and that my lord would not be hard upon them.

  • After what happened the other day, they will be very sure he will not be hard upon them.

  • Hard upon both of us, but I suppose only a common element in the initiatory ordinances of matrimony.

  • This concealment seems so hard upon her, as well as a kind of wrong to Daniel.

  • It would be hard upon her, and yet it would be a sort of heavenly pang to hear another, and, oh!

  • Aubrey, if a man shows a little impatience with your raptures in such circumstances, I don’t think you ought to be hard upon him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hard bread; hard for; hard labor; hard lines; hard luck; hard matter; hard money; hard pressed; hard rubber; hard snow; hard stone; hard tack; hard thing; hard time; hard times; hard upon; hard voice; hard water; hard wood; hardly fair; hardly less; hardy annual; hardy annuals; mechanical drawing; moderately strong; you would have thought