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Example sentences for "hard work"

  • But first we must make a proper well at the spring, so as to have plenty of fresh water: now there's enough for a year's hard work at least.

  • But we soon found out that we had to deal with an ill-tempered, brutal fellow; and that he gave us plenty of hard work, but by no means plenty of food.

  • A constant succession of gaieties keeps everyone alive, till the time arrives for a return to our respective factories, and another year's hard work.

  • For a paltry bribe they will try to pass a bad parcel of seed, and even when you have your European assistants to help you, it is hard work to avoid being over-reached in some shape or other.

  • My light rod bent like a willow, but the tackle was good, and after ten minutes' hard work I got the turtle to the side, where my boys soon secured him.

  • Our mental business is carried on much in the same way as the business of the State: a great deal of hard work is done by agents who are not acknowledged.

  • He swore all day yesterday at the prospect of six years of hard work and no more excuses for laziness.

  • Fortunately we have still the moat when a breach is made, and it will be hard work to cross that.

  • It will be hard work, for you have scarce room to move your arms, but you have plenty of time since we cannot sally out till nightfall.

  • They have stood up before the English ere now; and you and your men-at-arms will find it hard work to get through their pikes; and we outnumber you threefold.

  • In the factory she took charge of two 60-inch looms, hard work for a young woman, but she needed the money, and she never thought of toil if her object could be gained.

  • We had two hours' hard work to clear them out.

  • This was rough, hard work, without much chance of reward, but it, was near the field of active operations, and I determined to do the best I could at it till opportunity for something better might arise.

  • His animals had not been subjected to hard work on bad roads without forage, but were in good condition.

  • They are to be achieved by humbler means-by hard work, by a spirit of self-restraint in our dealings with one another, and by a deep devotion to the principles of justice and equality.

  • But it will take time and patience and hard work.

  • Tell Buzzby to take a dozen men with him and collect moss; we'll need a large quantity for fuel, and if another storm like this comes it'll be hard work to get down to it.

  • You've not been well lately, and hunting on the floes, I know from experience, is hard work.

  • Its successes were the result of hard work, supplemented by the aid of philanthropists and the eager striving of black men.

  • Long years of patient, hard work will be required for the betterment of the condition of the negro in the South, as well as for the betterment of the condition of the negro in the West Indies.

  • But the old parrot was wonderfully patient with me--though I could see that occasionally she had hard work to keep her temper.

  • I used to peep into these sometimes, now that I could read, but I found it hard work to make out the Doctor's handwriting.

  • But he says it's hard work--and he has caught some terrible colds, holding his head under water so much.

  • In half an hour's hard work, while the moon began to sink to the westward, he had stepped a crude mast and hewed a couple of punt-poles.

  • Yes, that was hard work, but it's done now.

  • Success gives me power if it cannot give me happiness, and I must have some reward for my hard work.

  • Hard work, not age, had brought the gray frosting into the hair of Colonel Cleaves; he was forty-seven years old, and not many months before he had been only a major.

  • It's hard work on a hot night, so you and I will walk together for a while, old pal," Dick confided to the borrowed mount.

  • Cartwright was a smart, soldierly looking chap, but was well known as an officer who was not addicted to hard work.

  • All this time they were having hard work to raise war funds.

  • If ever men engaged upon an undertaking that required endurance, hard work, sound common sense, and a practical knowledge of how to tackle any task that might present itself, this was the occasion.

  • They had not come to do hard work, they had come to pick up nuggets of gold.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute being; done either; hard boiled; hard case; hard currency; hard fate; hard fighting; hard for; hard labour; hard master; hard rock; hard sauce; hard service; hard time; hardly knew; hardly knowing; hardly less; hardly more; hardly worth; hardy annual; hardy annuals; little essence; may see; mortality from; thus related; write unto