She had to sit down on the dry, hard ground and look down into the valley and all about her.

她不得不坐在干燥坚硬的地面上，俯视着山谷和周围的一切。

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He could follow a cold trail over hard ground and even over stones.

他能循着地面上甚至是石头上留下的淡淡的痕迹展开追踪。

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He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.

他是在锄着枯地的农夫那里，在敲石的造路工人那里。

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We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

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"They have gone through the past month or so of very hard effort to reach the point where they can begin to consolidate and control ground that they have won so, by no means this is over yet.

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Barzalona pulled up his mount Grand Vent and Bronze Cannon suffered a similar fate on the hard ground.

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The Reef could win on soft and hard ground, which Dancing Brave, Brigadier Gerard or Nijinsky did not prove.

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And a paw reached forward tentatively because the hard ground was littered with pine cones and he was a domestic lion unaccustomed to the wilderness.

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