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Example sentences for "would have been hard"

  • The South might easily have gained a more efficient recruit; but a more earnest adherent it would have been hard to find.

  • It would have been hard to select a spot in that country where the abolition feeling would be more likely to prevail.

  • I say "dark man" advisedly, for it would have been hard to guess at his original color, unless his cast of feature had not given a line.

  • And a happier little rendezvous it would have been hard to find, for Mrs. Harold loved her big foster-sons dearly, strove in every way to make the place a home for them and to develop all that was best in their diverse characters.

  • It would have been hard to picture a prettier sight than the skaters presented that afternoon, the boys in their heavy reefers and woolen watch-caps; the girls in toboggan caps and sweaters.

  • Until Polly entered his lonely world it would have been hard to picture a duller life than he led, but her sunshiny soul seemed to have reflected some of its light upon him, and he was happier than he had been in years.

  • So immediately after luncheon formation the party embarked at the foot of Maryland Avenue and a gayer one it would have been hard to find.

  • It would have been hard to decide from Wyverne's face, whether he spoke in earnest or irony; but there was no mistaking the expression of the Rector's; disappointment was written there very legibly.

  • Probably more than one feeling was busy within him then, which it would have been hard to separate or analyse.

  • Wyverne was not in the least inclined to chafe at her tone; in truth, admiration left no place for anger; it would have been hard to quarrel with her, she looked so handsome in her scorn.

  • It would have been hard to confer on any one, to the exclusion of the rest, the palm of beauty.

  • And this year it would have been hard to imagine any more prostrate and lowly position than that of every kind of crop.

  • And to tell the truth, the bold invaders were by no means grieved at this; for if there had been smugglers there, it would have been hard to tackle them.

  • No doubt it would have been hard to find a girl more true and loving, more modest and industrious; but hundreds and hundreds of better girls might be found perhaps even in Yorkshire.

  • It would have been hard to catch Ray without a book; he generally took one even to bed with him.

  • Even a stranger, not knowing her age, would have guessed it to be what it was, yet it would have been hard to say what gave the impression of maturity.

  • It was an exciting time, and it would have been hard to decide which were the most pleased, parents, pupils, or teacher.

  • It would have been hard to refuse so advantageous an offer without accusing him of Ferdinando's death, which is precisely what I will not do, for the sake of all of us.

  • She was fond of her refined but not very remarkable self, and it would have been hard to convince her that Tebaldo's silent looks and ever-ready service meant nothing but greed of money.

  • The name corresponded with the papers of the soldier, and as he was unarmed it would have been hard to find any excuse for arresting him on a mere suspicion.

  • It would have been hard to say; for where there is such sympathy, such trust, and such love, there is also a sort of community of courage and of strength and of endurance for a joint suffering.

  • The party had come out to Severndale by a special car at twelve-thirty, and a "madder, merrier" group of young people it would have been hard to find.

  • A more calculating, triumphant one, or one more devoid of any vestige of affection for Peggy it would have been hard to picture.


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