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Hard lines

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hardship; difficult conditions.
hard lot.

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The hard lines in his aunt's face relaxed and a sud- den tenderness dawned in her eyes.
--the wounded youth was once more reclining on the heap of pillows, his pale face set rigidly in the hard lines that told of pain resolutely endured.
Perhaps some people may think that my mothers uncle Thomas shouldent of wispered at prayer time in church but you must remember that Miss Jemima Parrs father had thretened to set the dog on him and that was hard lines when he was a respektable young man though not rich.
 
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