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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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