Hardest

Examples

• I am sure you had no share in it, or in the cruel suspicions of Mr. Osborne, which are the hardest of all our griefs to bear. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I doubt whether Chettam would not have been more severe, and yet he comes down on me as if I were the hardest man in the county. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I can laugh at it as bitterly as the hardest man who tosses it from him in contempt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• McClernand was next to Sherman, and the hardest fighting was in front of these two divisions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I would have been his servant or his slave, and lived on one of his smiles for a week, as a reward for the hardest labour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The diamond is the hardest known substance in the world, cutting and grinding all other known hard things, but itself only cut and ground by its mates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He tries to do it; he says he'll bring me down and humble me, and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest and dirtiest work, on purpose! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It always seemed to him that words were the hardest part of business. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But one of the hardest domestic tasks is that of keeping the house clean. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She might have coaxed me to say no if I had been the hardest-hearted duenna in the world. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This was an endless steel belt serrated on one edge, mounted on pulleys, and driven continuously by the power of steam through the hardest and the heaviest work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Tunneling under rivers presents many more difficulties than driving through the hardest rock. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The hardest of laughs, though brief and low, and by no means insulting, was the response of the rector. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• After about half an hour’s rest, the hardest part of the work is begun--that of filling up the hole and leveling the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It holds, as well as it ever held, the first four rules of arithmetic and a certain small collection of the hardest facts. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Assuredly, this stall of Silas Wegg's was the hardest little stall of all the sterile little stalls in London. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is the hardest of all known things. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As to gold, silver and lead, they doubtless were found first in their native state and mixed with other ores and were hammered into the desired shapes with the hardest stone implements. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The British taxes which bear hardest on manufactures, are some duties upon the importation of raw materials, particularly upon that of raw silk. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It isn't fair that I should have the hardest work, and never any amusement. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• What would I have given, to have been sent to the hardest school that ever was kept! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The dog advanced, retreated, paused an instant, and scoured away at his hardest speed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Though it's the hardest part of my business, and would be, even if my back were not bad and my legs queer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hardest of all, she had to break the matter to Georgy, who made a loud outcry. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• While the hardest known thing, the diamond is brittle and can be crushed to a powder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Each of the jaws is lined with the hardest kind of chilled steel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He wanted to find some way of preventing this hardest of all metals from melting when the full force of the electric current was turned into it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I say this, because what I must bid you to do for Charles's sake, is the hardest thing to do of all. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Editor: Lucia