other words for hard case
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A hard case for Louis, where if he retreated his territories were seized, and if he advanced his soul was in danger.
So he asked the Secretary whether that wasn't a hard case of young Caldigate.
I dont know Mr. St. John, and if one neglected ones own interests for every hard case one heard of, where would one be?
Bill Williams, another 'hard case,' and Rube Herring, were 'some' too.
It was assuredly a hard case—for our Government had been solely to blame.
It's a hard case, Billy; in such cases, tears are almost justifiable.
"It is a hard case, Mr. Nason," replied Harry, not much disappointed at the result.
It is a hard case, and there is so much on Mrs. Osgood's side.
These comments are coldly judicial and exactly after the mind of the unsympathetic tenderfoot or the “hard case” of early days.
The rest of the horses and gear they left to the thorp-abiders, to better their hard case withal.