For a long, hard moment they faced each other, then Carlos said.
It was like the People, he decided after long, hard moments of thought, but without words.
For a long, hard moment he could not move.
Dan stared at the younger man for a long, hard moment.
It was a hard, uncomfortable moment before she released his eyes, turning at last and starting off.
It took Calvin a moment to realize that he had been put down, hard and low.
I thought for a long, hard moment; the Silencer was running out of time!
That was a hard moment on each of them.
She would later say it was the hardest moment for him.
The Plains have their hard moments, and more of them than the soft.