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Meanings of read with difficulty in English

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Usage of read with difficulty in English
1
There were some rude scratchings on it with charcoal, which I read with difficulty.
Salute to Adventurers
2
Dan read with difficulty and wrote with greater, but I have met few better-educated men.
"Over There" with the Australians
3
He found the word for her, and she read with difficulty, 'Trouble, distress, great affliction.'
Odd
4
He was not attractive as a preacher, his voice trembled with emotion and bashfulness, and he read with difficulty.
A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
5
They stood under a light, shoulder to shoulder, and read with difficulty, for the hand of Harrigan which held the paper shook.
Harrigan
6
Even the eldest, almost her own age, could only read with difficulty words of two syllables; and taste in dress was beyond their comprehension.
A Changed Man, and Other Tales
7
Old Mrs. Scritcher read with difficulty, "A boy in a boat-overhe goes;" and burst out in a piteous wail, "Oh, my poor little Ephraim!
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
8
Pausing, she glanced down on his father's grave, reading with difficulty the inscription beneath the dry dust from the cedars.
The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
9
"But-but"-stammeredLeonie, having read with difficulty-"butI knew the tiger, Mr.
Leonie of the Jungle
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