hardly-won

Each week we grow more and more rusty as to our hardly-won surgical technic, more out of touch with those who come and go to one patient after the other, and who not unnaturally count upon so and so many victories over the very enemy who we know will overcome the life we are fighting to save.

Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery

The hardly-won repast concluded, the ground offers a comfortless couch to his stiffened and jaded limbs, where to snatch such sleep as the necessity of strict guard, and the ominous and mysterious noises of a night in the desert, allow to descend upon his eyelids.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

Then the curate and his hardly-won bride became tenants of the mansion, and changed its name to Clissold Park or Place.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Our force returning from Eastern Palestine did not abandon the hardly-won eastern bank of the Jordan.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

The popular leaders had not forgotten the lessons of 1848, and it was not likely they would be so insensate as to give time for Russian or Turkish intrigues once more to break down the barriers of their hardly-won liberties.

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

It is an illuminating coincidence that the classes in every nation which most enthusiastically demand the violent prosecution of the war seem to be proportionately anxious to annul the hardly-won privileges of democracy.

The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade John Mavrogordato

Each week we grow more and more rusty as to our hardly-won surgical technic, more out of touch with those who come and go to one patient after the other, and who not unnaturally count upon so and so many victories over the very enemy who we know will overcome the life we are fighting to save.

Making Good on Private Duty Harriet Camp Lounsbery

And now, before she had had a chance to justify his hardly-won belief, the past had risen up to destroy her, surging over her like a great tidal wave and sweeping away the whole fabric of the happiness she had visioned.

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

To join the Colours as a private soldier, he left his colours as an artist, throwing up an established and hardly-won position in the world of his profession, into which -- sent home shot and poisoned -- he must now fight his way back.

A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

Jealous rivals abound to dispute a hardly-won supremacy, and the least sign of faltering may involve extinction.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 18, 1891 Various