They are a delicate little creature, and sometimes die in a hard winter.
It was a hard winter, and the snow was deep on the mountains.
As an instance, he says he remembers seeing Hugh M'Phail, a Gairloch man then living at the head of Loch Broom, measuring out herrings from his boat on a cold day in a hard winter, with four inches of snow on the ground and thick ice.
A bear comes out to feed in a hard winter--this is a hard winter, therefore a hungry bear is equal to a hard winter.
Well, there has been known to be a few, especially in a hard winter.
Then Daddy Martin told about the letter from grandpa at Cherry Farm, and of the hermit's prediction that there was going to be a hard winter.
Sometimes the hermits and woodsmen can tell by the way the squirrels and other animals act and store away food, whether or not it is going to be a hard winter.
I am afraid we shall have a hard winter, though whether or not we shall be snowed in I cannot say.
The men were unreasonable: to demand shorter hours in the slack season following on a hard winter!
The bones of their wrists were blue and prominent and foretold a hard winter, of which the corns of the old people had long ago given warning; and sparks of fire were flying up from under poor folks' kettles.
How many states in this Union ever put on a close season because of a hard winter?
The deaths and the percentage are nothing at which to be surprised, when it is remembered, that the animals had just come through a hard winter, and their natural vitality was at the lowest point of the year.
And I want sportsmen to consider their duty, and not go out hunting any game species that has been slaughtered by a hard winter, until it has had at least five years in which to recover.
How many quail hunters, think you, ever stayed their hands because of "a hard winter on the quail?
Although the ant is industrious she never lays up more food than is needed for a hard winter, and no ant hill that I have ever investigated has revealed anything suggestive of the most approved forms of modern thrift.
I asked what was troubling him, and he explained: "One of my best printers has had a hard winter of it on account of sickness in his family.
Are these signs of a hard winter, or of the failure of the reciprocity negotiations with the United States?
I said this mornin' that it wuz goin' to be a hard winter," growled Jim Hart.
The haws are very abundant; which, they say, is another sign of a hard winter.
The Starlings are come in large flocks; and, which is deemed a sign of a hard winter, the Fieldfares are come at an early season.
The three hundred head of young cattle which Sylvane and Merrifield had bought in Iowa, were doing well in spite of a hard winter.
They talked of a hard winter ahead, and the canniest of them defied the skeptics by riding into Medora trailing a pack-horse and purchasing six months' supplies of provisions at one time.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard winter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
