1 I have tried hard for you, but all to no purpose.
2 This was a hard hit at Mr. Grimwig, who was a bachelor.
3 'You're desperate hard upon me, gen'l'men,' said Gamfield, wavering.
4 He answered with some hesitation, because he was confused by Mr. Grimwig's looking so hard at him.
5 These, however, had no worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard, and then fall asleep again.
6 'The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot.
7 I would not alarm you if I could avoid it,' rejoined Rose; 'but indeed I have tried very hard, and cannot help this.
8 'Why, you don't mean to say, you'd be hard upon me to-night, Bill,' said the girl, laying her hand upon his shoulder.
9 But her teeth were tight set, and she clenched the mug so hard that it was as much as I could do to get it back again.
10 It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy.
11 'Yes; he's my boy,' replied Sikes, looking hard at Oliver, and putting his hand abstractedly into the pocket where the pistol was.
12 He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study.
13 He applied himself, with redoubled assiduity, to the instructions of the white-headed old gentleman, and laboured so hard that his quick progress surprised even himself.
14 It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.
15 For the combination of both these blessings in the one simple process of picking oakum, Oliver bowed low by the direction of the beadle, and was then hurried away to a large ward; where, on a rough, hard bed, he sobbed himself to sleep.
16 No chance-child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence-halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.
17 The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it savagely up in clouds, and, whirling it into a thousand misty eddies, scattered it in air.
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