The fishermen, the laborers, the craftsmen who made camp at Valley Forge -- they weathered a hard winter.
Even by harsh Alaska standards, this was a hard winter, as a storm track shifted north and stayed.
Experts said populations in Northumberland had been boosted by the long, hard winter.
But, as Australia themselves have shown, those long, hard winter tours can be made the exception rather than the rule.
Spring marks the peak selling season for home improvement retailers with home construction and rebuilding activity picking up after the long, hard winter.
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The slaves and the freedmen who rode an underground railroad, seeking the light of justice under the cover of night -- they weathered a hard winter.
Several of the book's 11 stories are set in Elk Tooth, a two-bit town of three bars and 80 residents, many with mouth-clogging names: Gilbert Wolfscale, Hard Winter Ulph, Wiregrass Cokendall.
Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.
There is thus little threat to Kansas City's main product, futures and options on hard red winter wheat.
It was very hard in winter with nothing for me to do there, but my family is the most important thing for me.
The thaw could also threaten oil production, which relies on hard-frozen winter ground to move heavy machinery.
"I've worked pretty hard over the winter and... it's a great feeling to get those rewards, " Harrison said.
"Everybody at the trust has worked so hard over the winter setting up this brand new osprey project in Wales, so you can imagine our absolute delight when this male osprey decided to set up home right here on the Dyfi, " Mr Evans said.
Unless you believe a player is fine in May but succumbs to fatigue a month later, it's hard to blame the winter break.
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After the longtime .300 hitter saw his average fall into the .240's this past season, he spent the winter working hard in the batting cage and re-learning how to hit the ball to the opposite field.
The temperatures we experience locally and in short periods can fluctuate significantly due to predictable cyclical events (night and day, summer and winter) and hard-to-predict wind and precipitation patterns.
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But it is painfully hard to find warmth in the coldest winter in two decades.
Swann, famed for his knack of first-over wickets, was equally unable to part North and Robinson as England received an early lesson about the patience and hard work sure to be required this winter.
Under snowy skies this week, inmates marched onto the frozen lake in military formation in winter-weight prison greens and hard hats.
Word on the street is that as the Dumb Money began plowing into gold this winter, the Crazy Money came hard into silver.
Winter knew his thoroughbreds would try too hard and strain themselves.
In summer, fields of wildflowers and crystal-clear rivers are almost as intoxicating as the black diamond trails on Aspen Mountain or the hard-earned majesty of the Highland Bowl in winter.
Hard to find any nail-biting about a cold winter propping up already higher-than-normal gas prices at Energen Corp (nyse: EGN - news - people ).
He said a snowberry bush that "predicted" hard winters in 2009 and 2010 had shown signs that the coming winter would also be cold and snow-filled.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, or Fedecafe, isn't giving a firm forecast for next year's crop, saying estimates are hard to make given the large amount of rain that came down this winter.
Even the most hard-core of barefoot runners have had their share of troubles in the winter.
Aggar dedicated much of his time last winter to getting fit for the World Championship selection trials and the hard work on land and on the water paid off with a place in the Great Britain squad for the World Championships in Munich.
Across Sweden, Midsummer is greeted with an exuberance that's hard to understand unless you've experienced the cold and darkness of a Swedish winter.
Of course there's an exception to the winter discounts: unless you're extremely flexible, it's usually hard to find a deal between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
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