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hard-won

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hard´-won`
a.1.Acquired with difficulty; as, to squander one's hard-won fortune.
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hard-won [ˈhɑːdˈwʌn] ADJganado a duras penas
hard-won [ˌhɑːdˈwʌn] adjsudato/a
hard-won [ˌhɑːdˈwʌn] adjsudato/a


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The Sheriff knows him: it is Arthur Donnithorne, carrying in his hand a hard-won release from death.
The weaver's hand had known the touch of hard-won money even before the palm had grown to its full breadth; for twenty years, mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil.
I roused myself, and, after lending them a hand in hauling up their boat, I lingered yet awhile to watch them disembark a goodly assortment of the hard-won 'treasures of the deep.
 
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