It was a hard land still, though statehood had come thirty years past.

This is a hard land, sorceress who looks like a girl.

It was a hard land, but he wished for no other.

New land's hard to come by these days; we won't get ours without a fight.

This was a hard land, so different from America that it made him feel truly alien, cold, and detached.

It was a hard, uncompromising land, no place for the living.

A chill, damp, hard land, he thought, and no place to send soldiers at Christmas time.

But she saw more than hard land and rock.

This was a hard land, and the rules were written plain in the way we lived.

Fortunately, this was only a thin barrier, with more hard land beyond.