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Grammar : Noun

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Définition of hard knock

  • As in tribulation : noun pain, unhappiness
Example sentences :
  • That's flattering to a chance acquaintance, but a hard knock at your friends.
  • Extract from : « The Rest Hollow Mystery » by Rebecca N. Porter
  • I've been fighting against you all these years, and many a hard knock we've had.
  • Extract from : « Robert E. Lee » by Ruth Hill
  • "He got a hard knock after we met the Brimsteads," said Sarah.
  • Extract from : « A Man for the Ages » by Irving Bacheller
  • Be jabbers, it's a hard knock you have had, and a mighty lot of blood you must have lost!
  • Extract from : « Orange and Green » by G. A. Henty
  • At this moment the postman's hard knock at the door nearly made him cry out aloud.
  • Extract from : « The Mark Of Cain » by Andrew Lang
  • His gun-stock snapped in the middle, his cocked-hat sustained many contusions, even his nose had more than one hard knock.
  • Extract from : « Just Sixteen. » by Susan Coolidge
  • At last the goat got tired of hearing Jack bark, and thought he would give him one hard knock, and drive him away.
  • Extract from : « The Nursery, August 1881, Vol. XXX » by Various
  • A little more, and one could imagine him giving Mr. Downing a good, hard knock.
  • Extract from : « Mike » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • "They are going to give the Boches a hard knock," said grizzled men, who remembered in their boyhood another war.
  • Extract from : « Now It Can Be Told » by Philip Gibbs
  • The churches will receive many a hard knock without you adding your quota.
  • Extract from : « The Orchard of Tears » by Sax Rohmer

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