Definitions
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- adjective Too
hard .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can show the German tanks rolling into a little French town, and not have to work overhard at making the scene dramatic.
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He was overhard telling the Japanese Prime Minister, whom he accompanied on the trip, “You know, Jesus was a carpenter and Elvis majored in wood shop.”
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For now I will make avaunt, said Sir Launcelot, I will that ye all wit that yet I found never no manner of knight but that I was overhard for him, an I had done my utterance, thanked be
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Launcelot's horse, but in no wise to have ado with him bodily, "for," he had said, "he is overhard to overcome."
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"
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The dog was overhard to kill, and his bites were murderous.
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And that de Vallorbes has been heard to lament openly that he is not a native of some enlightened country in which the divorce court charitably intervenes to sever overhard connubial knots.
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"Set aside that cruel vow, my dear aunt," cried I, "I will make any pilgrimage with you, and I know full well that no penance will seem overhard to you."
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"Set aside that cruel vow, my dear aunt," cried I, "I will make any pilgrimage with you, and I know full well that no penance will seem overhard to you."
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"Set aside that cruel vow, my dear aunt," cried I, "I will make any pilgrimage with you, and I know full well that no penance will seem overhard to you."
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At least it was as genteel an expression that the party had been overhard travelled, as the most polite pedestrian could propose to himself.
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