Over lunch, Audie and Beth sat hard-ly speaking, except to remark on the weather, the sun-flecked veranda, the flowering trees, the bolder birds raiding the leftovers at vacated tables.
This Geronimo thing sits hard with many Native Americans.
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The ancient town that sits hard by the North Sea has many moods, and some have been on display for the last three days.
For instance, the Saratoga Reading Rooms, a private club and sanctum whose members constitute the racing elite, is barely known to ordinary racegoers, although the tidy frame structure with its green canvas canopies sits hard by the track on Union Avenue.
Others say it's the fat, buttery lobster rolls at Red's Eats, a seafood shack with a fanatical following that sits hard along the highway here, just before the bridge out of town.
"We also knew he was on a short pitch count, so when he wasn't getting his other pitches over, we knew we could sit hard on his fastball and that's what we did".
Larry Walsh, the owner of the Crossing Inn Tavern, which sits hard against the Silver Lake station -- a terrazo-like stretch of plaza tucked amid low-rise commercial buildings -- is perhaps more bullish than most.
RIDGWAY, which sits hard up against the San Juans, the most rugged of Colorado's mountain ranges, used to be a place you just passed through on your way to the ski slopes of Telluride, a 45-minute drive away.
They have effectively surrounded the town - which sits hard up against the Syrian-Turkish border - from three sides and are firing into it from higher ground.
As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments and harder to follow directions.
