The hard work was performed by Indians, the beasts of burden of the mines.
Their guns were fine, but clumsily mounted, and therefore hard to move.
It is hard to be sure of the import of the original through the change of expression inevitable in translating, but we may guess something of it.
Great agitation followed, and the Archbishop of Mexico had hardwork to make good his title received from the Junta Central.
It was inevitable, then, that revolutions in Mexico should follow those in the rest of the civilized world, but it was hardupon the public-spirited Iturrigaray that its first outburst should fall upon his head.
It is hard to account for the presence in Mexico of the "more than sixty families," and many, many more which served as nucleus for all the cities founded by the Spaniards.
A building of ancient stone is still there, laid in mud and covered with hard cement of a ruddy tint, with which the floors are also covered.
Hard by the station, as in every Mexican town, is a cafe, where excellent hot coffee is furnished, with plenty of boiled milk and good bread in many and various forms.
He at once set about organizing the large army called into the field, pledging a part of his private property as one means of raising money, which was sorely needed and hard to get.
The natives eat bananas only dead ripe, when they are beginning to grow soft,--not as they are found in the northern market, hard and indigestible after a long voyage without ripening influences.
It is impossible not to pity the hard fate of Yturbide and his violent death.
When he spoke there was an uneasy gleam in his eyes and his voice was as hard as steel.
A metallic hardness came into it, his words were vibrant with a strange excitement which he strove hard to conceal.
He waited, breathless--and the strange pressure came again, so hard that it hurt his flesh.
Isn't the earth worn smooth and hard about that post?
He was breathing so hard that for a moment he found it impossible to speak but in his eyes there was a look that told his unbounded gratitude.
A short distance beyond he came suddenly upon a narrow path, beaten hard by the passing of feet, and leading toward the lake.
As I said, it was a winterly day; it had been snowing hard and the snow froze and accumulated on the upper edge of the signal arm until its weight bore it down.
His face was a testimonial of hard work and general sobriety but at the moment one might hazard from his voice and manner that he had been drinking earlier in the day.
He mixes with no one there, goes into town at irregular times but generally every day, and is reputed to be devilish hard to get money out of.
Extraordinary thing meeting like this," said his visitor, dropping into a chair and staring hard at Mr. Carrados.
When ten grammes were evaporated to dryness, the last portions of water were hard to remove, as the residue fairly floated with oil.
As an actual fact a good potash soap contains less water than many quite hard soda soaps that are now in the market.
With this article there is no difficulty in producing a pure potash soap, either for wool scouring, fulling, or sizing, by a cold process very similar to that described for the production of hardsoda soap with pure powdered caustic soda.
When the plate has ceased to drip, place it in a plate drainer, with the corner you poured from lowest, and leave it where dust cannot get at it for four or five days, when it will be found sufficiently hard to be put into a plate box.
And goodness knows, Master Dunlop, you're hard enough to live with best of times when you're well.
Don't be so hardon the boys, Peter, for stoppin' awhile to play.
How hard it was to give help, and at the same time to teach the poor to be self-helpful!
But they begged so hard I told 'em to go on and have a good time.
I tell my ol' man it's goin' to come mighty hard on him now that he's got a place of his own that's got to be tooken care of.
It ishard to leave you alone--dependent--among strangers.
The trouble was then that he wanted to drown both of us and I had a hard time making him see reason.
I got it over," gasped Steve, "but it washard work.
Perry said they were so hard he guessed they were Ossie-fied, and the others laughed and Ossie got angry and they nearly came to blows: would have, perhaps, had not Steve promised to throw them both overboard if they did!
Renowned for his good-nature, he is nevertheless a hard worker at whatever he undertakes, and if he sometimes shows a suspicious disposition it is only because his good-nature has been frequently imposed on.
The sea arose under the growing strength of the nor'wester and soon the waves were thudding hard against the rail and the piled lumber and sending showers of spray across the deck.
The tide's still running out and if we don't get her off now we'll have a hard time later.
Things went from bad to worse and ten minutes after the first warning the Adventurer was tossing about like a cork, her propeller as often out of water as in, and making hard work of it.
But by rowing hard at first and then taking advantage of the quieter water near the schooner they at last reached the old black hull in safety and, while Han managed the boat-hook, the other two scrambled aboard.
Into the two feet of water dropped the trio on the bow and, keeping the Follow Me between them and the enemy, scuttled to land, and then, once on the hard sand, ran as hard as their legs would take them up the beach to the north.
It rained quite hard for a half-hour about noon and then ceased just in time for them to set off to the Catspaw again.
That bath left them feeling both refreshed and hungry and Ossie had a hard time finding enough for them to eat.
They relapsed into silence then, for making one's self heard above the clamour of wind and water and the groans and creakings of the schooner was hard work.
One of these weapons was perfect, the other minus her fore compartment, this having been knocked off by the torpedo colliding with some hard object.
When the leading wires are erected in places where they are likely to rub and chafe against hard substances, it is advisable to enclose each wire separately in india-rubber tubing at all the points where they are likely to be rubbed.
Its liability to become hard and brittle when exposed to dry heat, and consequently it requires to be stored under water.
Carbons are made from the hard carbon deposited in the interior of gas retorts, also from graphite.
This composition is put on whilst hot and allowed to cool gradually, when it becomes hard and durable.
A spark, friction between hard bodies, or a temperature of 572 deg.
His sensitive, exploring fingers had come upon a small, hard object sewed into the hem of one of Mrs. Hawthorne's frocks.
The hunchback stood there, breathinghard from having hurried so fast.
Mrs. Weems sighed as she set the egg platter down hard on the table.
Julia thrust a hard crust of bread in through the peephole, and then shoved a cup of steaming black coffee into her hand.
Though I tried hard to prevent it, he coaxed my grandmother to come to this horrible place.
It is not very hard to put one's finger upon the utter absurdity of such reasoning.
But when the Cathari and the Patazins had sprung up everywhere, especially in southern Italy and France and northern Spain, the secrecy of their movements made the task of the bishop extremely hard and complicated.
Such a teaching might appear, at first sight; hard to reconcile with the law of gentleness which Jesus preached to the world.
It is hard to conceive of a greater responsibility than that of a mediæval Inquisitor.
It is hard to understand how he can assert that the imperial Edicts decreeing the death penalty are due to ecclesiastical influence, when we notice that nearly all the churchmen of the day protested against such a penalty.
The promises made by this new member of "the Perfected" were not all equally hard to keep.
In practice, the heretical tendency of witchcraft was hard to determine.
There was nothing very hard in this; on the contrary, it was the consoling side of their life.
It is hard to understand why such a formula was used at all.
This explains why intelligent men, animated by the purest zeal for good, proved so hard and unbending, and used without mercy the most cruel tortures, when they thought that the faith or the salvation of souls was at stake.
The facts in Savonarola's case are very hard to determine.
This noise does not arise from their voice, but from the insect beating on hard substances, with the shield or fore part of its head.
The noise exactly resembles that made by beating moderatelyhard with the finger on a table.
We jus' called it that 'cause its right name is too hard to say.
P'raps," said Trot after a pause during which she tried hard to think.
Go at once, you dummies, and find him, or it will go hard with you!
Button-Bright jammed the sofa-pillow into the brute's mouth and crowded it in as hard as he could.
It will go hard with this little short-necked creature if he doesn't polish the shoes properly.
Trot and Button-Bright, with Cap'n Bill and Rosalie the Witch, went to the humble palace, where they had a simple supper of coarse food and slept upon hard beds.
Tiggle thought hard for a minute and then said he remembered sweeping the King's rooms and finding a queer thing--that might have been an umbrella--lying beneath a cabinet.
It's raininghard outside," announced Coralie, who sat near the door.
Then he dreamed about it, and waking or dreaming he found the tale hard to believe.
Don't you find it hard work to 'member all of your name?
It ought not to be hardwork to break into the Treasure chamber.
I'm nearly starved, myself, for this conquerin' kingdoms is hard work.
In addition, the rail is so exposed to weather and hard wear that it cannot be relied upon to serve effectively for any great length of time.
The second plan is to build a flexible body so that the chassis will "give" rather than resist when subjected to hard strains.
The difficulties encountered in the construction of this particular road were very considerable as a cut through very hard shale, in some places as much as seven feet, was necessary.
No answer came but deep guttural grunts; his struggles were futile, his head was pressed hard into his blankets, and his hands were tightly held behind him and tied there.
He was only thirteen, be it remembered, and the decision against his brother had been a very hard and somewhat heroic thing.
He was upon her, and had delivered his attack, striking hard and straight from over her shoulder, in a moment of time.
The fairy now saw good to bring to an end the hard penance which she had imposed upon him for his first slighting of her.
The poor boys now began to scream and implore, and at last Fangga, cruel and hard as she was, was touched with pity, and consented to release them.
The boy reached home, unharmed by the dog; but he had run so hard that his lungs became diseased, and he was always suffering, till death released him a few months afterwards.
What gospel there can be in such a message to any honest man who has either to till the earth, plan a railroad, colonise Australia, or fight his country's enemies, is hard to discover.
No; this is hard labour; this is indefatigable industry!
They are a faithful, hard-working body of men; they have hard work to do, and their success the last year has been in advance of that of preceding years.
II When he came down to breakfast his head was aching and heavy and Mrs. Brockett's boiled egg and hard crackling toast were impossible.
It was cold beef and beetroot and blanc-mange with a very, very little strawberry jam round the edges of the glass dish, and there was a hard red cheese and little stiff woolly biscuits.
They had both had hard times, they were both lonely and no distance nor circumstances could lessen that early bond that there had been between them.
Peter's whole memory of the incident was vague and uncertain, although in after years he often tried very hard to recall it all to mind.
The wind blew the spray up to the graveyard and stung the faces of the mourners and in the roar of the waves it was hard to hear the voice of the preacher.
She worked too hard to have very many friends, and Peter saved her from hours of loneliness.
Things were hard so I made them into a story--I coloured them up.
She's had a terribly hard time of it herself, and I believe it's a great struggle to keep things going now.
Cards stood back from the table, his mouth smiling, his eyes hard and cold.
All the time I was with Zanti I was reading so hard and living so safely that it was only at moments, when I was alone, that I thought about Treliss at all.
But I am sure your highness will not put me to thehard necessity of carrying them out.
Touched with our position, these good people wished at first to dissuade us from this project, representing to us how hard and laborious this life was.
I insisted; I felt myself full of courage and strength; James had lived a hard life too long not to accustom himself to that of the fields.
The object of those who were approaching seemed to be hard to understand.
Chemerant found it hard to refuse this request, which in nowise interfered with the maneuvers of the frigate, as Captain Daniel engaged to follow the course of the Thunderer or allow himself to be abandoned.
Hard treatment and sufferings of the Athenian prisoners at Syracuse.
Each of the six days was a day of hard fighting and annoyance from an indefatigable crowd of light troops, with little, and at last seemingly nothing, to eat.
The fire burned brightly, toning down somewhat the hard unshaded lamplight.
Now that you have made it so pretty it would be hard to leave it.
It was one of the moments when one finds the social demands hard to endure.
As the riders went on their way Sir Shawn's voice sounded as though he was pleading hard with his friend.
He said to himself, looking at her wonderfully fresh beauty--the beauty of a clear soul--that it would be hard on her to be tied up to a sick man.
Sure it isn't the hard ways of the world they're fit for at all.
I have been listening so hard for the sound of her foot or her voice that when I try to listen I can't hear for the thumping of my heart in my ears.
When I was his age we got in some hard work at soldiering.
It is a hard road he has to travel for one so young," she said, and he noticed that she looked quickly towards the gate.
No one would have thought from Lady O'Gara's demeanour at the dinner table that Black Care pressed hard on her white shoulders.
The only thing I find it hard to forgive," she whispered, "is your not telling me.
I don't want to press the Prince with a hardday before him.
Sir Shawn thought some hard work would improve Mustapha's temper, but Patsy remained oddly unwilling.
The canary, which hung by the door in a cage, sent out a hardbright runlet of song.
Patsy had had a hard tussle that morning with an ill-tempered horse he was breaking, and he felt tired out.
It was hard for her to think of this, whose dearest hope had once been to devote her life to caring for him and cherishing him--prolonging that frail existence by the tender ministrations of a boundless love.
But, as he read, his pallid cheek flushed with angry feverish carmine, and his short hard breathing grew shorter and harder.
I will revere and honour you all the days of my life, if you will do right in this hardcrisis of our fate.
You must have worked veryhard in these last few months," he said.
I know how impetuous, how impulsive he is; how easily governed through his feelings, how little able to rule himself by hard common-sense.
You are very hard upon me, Leonard--and yet, I went against my conscience for your sake.
How hard it was to return, under such altered circumstances, to the rooms in which she had been so happy--to see everything unchanged except her own life.
She bears her trouble beautifully, and is all goodness and devotion to me--for I have been weak and ailing ever since I came from London--but I know the trial is very hard for her.
This is rather more comfortable than the Rockies," he said, as he stirred his tea, with big broad hands, scratched and scarred with hard service.
There were 44 rounds of hard milling without science or skill, and Rushmore won.
After a hardmilling contest of more than an hour, during which 70 rounds were fought without the least display of skill or science, Dann was obliged to give in.
Gooch unexpectedly found an outlying deer in Hempnall Wood, which they immediately drove from covert, and it afforded a most capital chase without a break for an hour and forty minutes, through sixteen parishes and a hard run of 28 miles.
A well-fought battle of thirty-two rounds of hard milling, with little or no science, ended in favour of Riches.
It appeared strange, in a representative monarchy, where responsibility bore hard on ministers, to see ministers of state, who were not responsible, associated in the government.
As they were hard at work at this, Jack Curtiss and his two chums entered the office.
About half a mile down the beach there's the distinct mark of a boat keel where it was drawn up on the hard sand and the marks of three separate pairs of feet.
I had a hard job getting through the channel in the rowboat, even at high water.
It's a good thing those kids sleep as hard as they do, or we'd have been in a tight fix.
It began to look as if the record of Ed Rivers' machine would be hard to beat, but from the determined look on his face and his gritted teeth it was evident that Paul meant to try hard.
Never heard of her," responded the voice, "we're hard aground on one of your Long Island shoals it seems.
Right yer are, boy, but the government is a slow movin' vessel and hard ter get under way.
Still, it does seem hard to have to look at them skip about and not be able to take a shot at them.
Fortunately the Flying Fish was not very hard aground and a little manipulation got her off into deep water once more.
It does seem hard to hear them blundering in and not be able to warn them," agreed Rob, "there should have been a lighthouse put on these shoals long ago.
The waters about the club house were so dotted with motor craft which darted about in every direction that Commodore Wingate of the club and the other regatta officials had a hard time keeping the course clear for the contestants.
Suddenly the stout youth, who was fishing with an unusually heavy line and hook, felt a hard tug on his apparatus, so powerful a tweak, in fact, that it almost pulled him overboard.
I had to gulp hard before I could answer this question, then I said: 'No.
I believe it is necessary to tell you how much hard work is attached to the business, and some of the enjoyments when the magazine is ready to go out.
It is hard to believe that a machine can do all these things so quickly and so accurately.
Ten of this was paid out for a hard bed and some scanty food, and I soon feared that I would be left without a cent unless I started somewhere for the gold mines.
