But after that it was a long, hard fall.

They have found the fall difficult to fathom, and even harder to accept.

His hard fall had knocked the wind out of him and he gasped for enough breath to talk.

Billy watched as the man's partner took a particularly hard fall.

The hard fall was a lot less than she deserved.

Josh was with the army until he took a hard fall and hurt his back.

It could be a long hard fall to earth.

He took a hard fall, which nearly jarred all the breath from his body.

FOR an industry grown fat, it has been a hard fall.

It was a hard fall, especially for someone who had spent almost his entire adult life at Salomon.