I bet if I thinkabout it real hard I could remembermy first pair of shoes.

VOA: standard.other

I did the only thing I could do. I hit him with my closed fist as hard as I could.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

"I mean it's hard to even understand how biology was a science as we would recognize it today.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Madam C.J.Walker explained it this way: "If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard."

VOA: special.2010.03.28

He said: "When I saw hard-working people suffering under debts, sickness and worries, I knew there was plenty to make up songs about."

VOA: special.2010.06.13

I looked hard at him. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon, or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon,or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

And what did we talk about?' I try to write notes, but it's very hard.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

This came as a shock to me. I looked hard at my friend.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Perhaps I have been too hard and worldly and suspicious.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

His face burned with happiness when he told the Captain "She said YES to me!" He said softly, "I guess it is hard for you to think someone like Caroline might like me."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"That is why I ran for president. That is why you worked so hard to elect a Democratic Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

"I came back from that really shaken up. I started to think about how the oceans are having a hard time.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"I never done it in my life - I don't,know kind of hard, that's why I am still here - unemployed."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15