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At times Zusak seems to strain over-hard for metaphor, but one sustained image works beautifully.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

At times Zusak seems to strain over-hard for metaphor, but one sustained image works beautifully.

Archive 2008-04-01 Tim Stretton 2008

And the Maid to stand very quiet, now that I did keep her from coming unto me; and her head did be something bent, so that I knew not whether I did mayhap have flogged her over-hard; for I did be something lacking in knowledge whether that a maid be very easy hurt.

The Night Land 2007

Bread that is made of baser grain, as peas, beans, oats, rye, or [1378] over-hard baked, crusty, and black, is often spoken against, as causing melancholy juice and wind.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

But beware, saide Bruno, that thou do not gripe her over-hard, and in kissing, bee carefull of biting, because the teeth stand in thy head like the pegges of a Lute, yet make a comely shew in thy faire wide mouth, thy cheekes looking like two of our artificiall

The Decameron 2004

Really working over-hard, with (UNINTELLIGIBLE) which is like Pinocchio's nose, which has grown.

CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2003 2003

I don't know about you, Sharpe, but I thought Cromwell didn't try over-hard to escape.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

Or even looked over-hard at you, as if you reminded him of someone known? '

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

And the Maid to stand very quiet, now that I did keep her from coming unto me; and her head did be something bent, so that I knew not whether I did mayhap have flogged her over-hard; for I did be something lacking in knowledge whether that a maid be very easy hurt.

The Night Land: Chapter 13 1912

And touching that business at Sheringham you are over-hard with me.

The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912