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hard labour Noun difficult and tiring physical work: used as a punishment for a crime in some countries
 Translations hard labour n → trabajos mpl forzados hard labour n → travaux forcés hard labour hard n → Zwangsarbeit f hard labour n → lavori forzati mpl |
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He was convicted, but with extenuating circumstances, and condemned to hard labour in Siberia for fifteen years. But it was not the horrors of prison life, not the hard labour, the bad food, the shaven head, or the patched clothes that crushed him. This is a new accession indeed to the hard labour of forming the youthful mind at Limmeridge, and I heartily wish you well through it, Mr. |
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