hardscrabble in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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These women were transported from their social circles in town to an isolated frontier homestead and a hardscrabble existence.
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Hardscrabble land would become valuable.
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Along the roads, the billboards loom over scene after scene of hardscrabble rural life.
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Hardscrabble country, she says, that shapes the bodies and lines of the faces of the people who live there.
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It is a shame that more are not reading these stories, which reach out from a hardscrabble time, and which still mirror our own.
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His father, seeking to instill the same hardscrabble work ethic which had gained him the esteem of society, intentionally gave little spending money to the boy.
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In the end, every resident of this hardscrabble, century-old mining town of 47,000 was shelling out $7 a year just to keep the lights on.
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Hardscrabble then appears and tells them they are the first to have surprised her, and wishes them luck.
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The hardscrabble way of the ranch, combined with the hard work of developing a business in raw territory, was costly.
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His hardscrabble upbringing on the reserve made him fearless and stoked his ambitions.
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