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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

We'll work hard, Mr. Morgan ''.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

But the scar seemed to pull hard at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were hurt and angry.

You're pretty hard on him ''.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

Before they could guess his intention Rankin stepped forward and swung the guard's own gun against the uncovered head, hard.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.

Lord slugged him in the stomach, so hard that the organ almost pressed against his spine.

He hardly noticed the blue-green flashes of lightning and the hard claps of thunder.

The cavernous depth, cluttered with antiques, echoed to her hard heels as she walked directly to the office in the rear and took the seat at his desk.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

Her laugh was hard.

He gripped the wheel hard to fight the despondency of defeat.

It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.

He hadn't done it this time and he would never again hit anyone so hard.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

It was snowing hard when they got there and they saw no horses outside.

`` Don't you play hard today then.

`` OK., I won't play hard '', he promised.