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Meanings of hard usage in English
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Usage of hard usage in English
1
Personal abuse and hard usage, were the common lot of poor slave girls.
2
The clothing of the soldiers, from hard usage, had become nearly worn out.
3
It was a dark green boat, showing long and hard usage.
4
His hands and feet were small and symmetrical, but roughened with hard usage.
5
He had, even then, stood the test of much hard usage.
6
It had seen such hard usage, however, that only about eight inches remained.
7
Can't do that-it'sa silk dress, and not wrapped for any hard usage.
8
The vehicle did bear very evident marks of hard usage.
9
If we receive hard usage, so much the better will it be for us.
10
They were clad in buckskin jackets, and homespun trousers, which showed signs of hard usage.
11
The record makes no mention of cruel treatment or very hard usage, as a slave.
12
Accidents began to happen, too, doubtless clue to the hard usage the machine had received.
13
On every hand Vicksburg showed signs of hard usage.
14
They've had it all crushed out of them by the hard usage of the officers.'
15
How dinted and battered it is with hard usage!
16
The King, they declared, had done right in fleeing from the hard usage of the English.
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