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"Sledding" Quotes from Famous Books

... us a whole lot," broke in Sam. "Unless we get those bonds back— or at least a part of them— we are going to have pretty hard sledding to pull through." ...

— The Rover Boys in Business • Arthur M. Winfield

... logs were hitched together by chains, and dragged down from the upland wood-lots. Under these mighty loads the snow-tracks got an almost icy polish, prime sledding for country sleighing parties. Sometimes a logging-bee was made to clear a special lot for a neighbor, and a band of wood-choppers worked all day together. It was cheerful work, though the men had to stand all day in the snow, and the thermometer was below zero. But there ...

— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

... see where you're going to get off. You seem to think there is a fortune in this business. I'll tell you there isn't. It's hard sledding to make both ...

— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

... interest of this legacy was available at present. Life in the Carew family at Brookhollow was hard sledding, and bid fair ...

— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... Yes, and there was no better cow in the village than Abby's, save those two fancy heifers that Jacques de Arthenay had lately bought. Altogether, she did not wonder that some of the weaker brethren, who found their own farms "hard sledding," should think enough of her pleasant home to be willing to take her along with it, since they could do no better; but they did not get it. Abby found life very pleasant, now that grief was softened down ...

— Marie • Laura E. Richards