Sentence examples for cold hard ground from inspiring English sources

Others speak more eloquently from the cold, hard ground.

Now she and her children sleep on the cold, hard ground.

Hotels were for the bourgeoisie; backpackers slept in pensiones and youth hostels, or failing that, on the cold, hard ground.

Sharing a tent and the cold, hard ground with a stranger loses its rustic allure after about a week.

Morrison took perverse delight in starting riots at Doors concerts and also enjoyed falling out of windows and tumbling several storeys to the cold, hard ground.

Though instead of having to sleep on the cold, hard ground under scratchy ponchos à la Clint Eastwood, we were billeted in a Santa Fe-style casita bungalow with feathery beds on the Rancho de los Caballeros in Arizona.

Even the cold night and hard ground elicited mainly philosophical shrugs.

It looks like basketball ballet, but is actually grounded in cold, hard analytics.

It was colder than usual, and we slept in canvas tents on hard ground.

But this time the symbolism is grounded less in sugar or spice than in cold, hard fact.

When I walk toward the lake, I understand Tibet's environmental fragility — crunching under my feet, the ground is little more than a thin veneer of grass over cold hard tundra.