The only thing I can think about now is being
hard up.
It is apt to be so, and it is
hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have our little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.
But when it came to breaking in, that was a bad time for me; several men came to catch me, and when at last they closed me in at one corner of the field, one caught me by the forelock, another caught me by the nose and held it so tight I could hardly draw my breath; then another took my under jaw in his
hard hand and wrenched my mouth open, and so by force they got on the halter and the bar into my mouth; then one dragged me along by the halter, another flogging behind, and this was the first experience I had of men's kindness; it was all force.
And the counsellors--who look as
hard as nails mostly--I saw, spared him as much as they could.
AN Insurance Agent was trying to induce a
Hard Man to Deal With to take out a policy on his house.
Meanwhile my host told me his story, how
hard he worked "bogging" for a neighboring farmer, turning up a meadow with a spade or bog hoe at the rate of ten dollars an acre and the use of the land with manure for one year, and his little broad-faced son worked cheerfully at his father's side the while, not knowing how poor a bargain the latter had made.
I tried
hard to win the affection of the two little girls I had to teach; but they seemed, I am sure I can't tell why, to dislike me from the first.
It is laudable, what they think
hard; what is indispensable and
hard they call good; and what relieveth in the direst distress, the unique and hardest of all,--they extol as holy.
A little hard-headed, Ripstone pippin-faced man, was conversing with a fat old gentleman in one corner; and two or three more old gentlemen, and two or three more old ladies, sat bolt upright and motionless on their chairs, staring very
hard at Mr.