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Example sentences for "little hard"

  • It was hard, he said, it was a little hard that a gentleman could not run up to London for a couple of days on business without having his private grounds turned upside down.

  • It would be a little hard, as Ukridge would have said, if, after all my trouble, the professor had discovered some fresh crow to pluck with me.

  • It was a little hard on the three children to have such an--intimate--home when they brought friends.

  • It may be a little hard at first; but woe to my proud heart, if I find it so on trial; for I will make it bend to its condition, or break it.

  • This is a little hard, as the case may be!

  • I think you are a little hard on young people, Margaret," put in Cousin Mary's pleasant voice.

  • A little hard, no doubt, but she has many excellent points.

  • I think we have been a little hard on the child.

  • It is a little hard not to do what you ask me straight away, but I think you can understand," he said.

  • It's a little hard to see how a fire could get in, but, after all, one can never make quite sure of anything.

  • That is why I waited--I think very patiently--though it was a little hard on me, too.

  • The girl's cheeks burned, but she looked up at him with a little hard laugh.

  • Phillis decidedly, and her voice was a little hard.

  • If you are sure it would not be wrong," hesitated Nan, whose conscience was a little hard to convince in such matters.

  • Miss Hamilton, we have been talking about you in your absence; your brother and I have been agreeing that it is really a great pity that you should have given up all your parish duties; it is a little hard on us all, is it not, Tudor?

  • Does it not strike you as a little hard, Mr. Hamilton, that one should be judged beforehand in this harsh manner?

  • I know the colonel thought once or twice that he was a little hard on Eric.

  • Perhaps, as life goes on and I grow older, it may be a little hard to bear at times, but my loneliness would be better than the sort of pain Mr. Hamilton and Max have endured.

  • Perhaps you were a little hard on me; but it's all over and done with now, and you needn't bother yourself any more about it.

  • She looks brilliant, and a little hard," was Cecil Farquhar's comment.

  • But when an old gentleman has spent all his life uttering melancholy platitudes, and is suddenly delivered of a joke--of two jokes--it is a little hard to expect him to hide his light under a bushel.

  • But I think it was a little hard on poor old Stanistreet.

  • There was no mistaking the tall figure, alert and vigorous, the lean dark face, a little eager, a little hard.

  • Wouldn't it be a little hard, if he had never--?

  • And if a certain person should ask me--well, it might be a little hard to refuse!

  • I think it a little hard," said she, "to think that the family has to know all about these tender messages of love!

  • It was a little hard to leave Carolyn behind.

  • She is a sound sleeper and she's getting a little hard of hearing"; and lifting the candlestick to light her way, Miss Amelia turned back up the stairs, while the flame flitted like a golden moth into the dimness.

  • I think, however, that you are a little hard on him.

  • There was a little hard glitter in Coulthurst's eyes.

  • Don't you think it is a little hard on the Hoddam people to shut them out of it?

  • After all, it may be a little hard on the major to blame him for being a gentleman.

  • Everybody laughed, except the Capitalist, who was a little hard of hearing, and the Scarabee, whose life was too earnest for demonstrations of that kind.

  • He did not want to be touchy about it, he said, but he had his way to make in the world, and found it a little hard at first, as most young men did.

  • Give me cowcumbers raised in the open air, said the Capitalist, who was a little hard of hearing.

  • My dear old horse," said Ukridge complainingly, "it's a little hard.

  • It would be a little hard, as Ukridge would have said, if, after all my trouble, the professor had discovered some fresh grievance against me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little after; little apart; little ashamed; little band; little blue; little boiling; little business; little butter and flour; little chopped; little church; little doubt; little experience; little family; little finger; little flock; little grey; little hamlet; little ketchup; little later; little more; little mouse; little niggers; little north; little snow; little village; little wonder