Aye, lad, and the plain things are always the hardest things to do.

And thus began to-day—it has been the hardest day in a hard week.

Duerot has tried his hardest to sup in Lagny, and has been balked by German valour.

They seemed to bring the last bitter pang, hardest of all to bear.

But you're asking me the one thing that's hardest, as you probably know.

It was the hardest of all things to wait, while shells now and then struck among them.

I have, captain, and the hardest of it all was when I saw our army repulsed to-day.

I say this, because what I must bid you to do for Charles's sake, is the hardest thing to do of all.

Then Orpheus began to play, and the hardest rocks were stirred.

Always, when hardest pressed for food, he found something to kill.