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That will be a hard nut for them to crack, I'm thinking.
The Hunt Ball Mystery
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But now came the hard nut within, and how hard it was!
An American Robinson Crusoe
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And even this India will be a hard nut to crack.
The Half-Hearted
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It was a hard nut, and would take some getting through.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
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Burnside is likely to find it a hard nut to crack.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
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Slade is the one real hard nut for the Three Bar to crack.
The Settling of the Sage
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Your little daughter has given me a hard nut to crack.
The Bent Twig
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He would be a hard nut for a novelist to crack.
The Masques of Ottawa
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Altogether it looked as if Bill was a pretty hard nut.
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son / Being the Letters...
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It is rather a hard nut to crack-CharlesSchwab's being stupid.
The Ghost in the White House / Some suggestions as to how a hund...
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He is a hard nut, that commissariat officer, as you'll see.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
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A hard nut; but hard nuts are usually sound ones.
Initials Only
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The Declaration of Independence was a hard nut to crack.
Children of the Market Place
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The Germans were proving a right hard nut to crack.
Burned Bridges
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This was indeed a hard nut for Margari to crack.
The Poor Plutocrats
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This hill, sir, will be a hard nut for the brown men to crack.
Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines; or, Following the Flag agai...