hard-run

I do need to balance out my hard-run days with my heavy lifting days.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 23 April 2010

Only the crinkled skin of her heart-shaped face betrayed the weathering of age and the dings of a hard-run life.

Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001

When you set up a safehouse you do it with the knowledge dial it can make the difference between the life and death of a hard-run ferret and you don't tell anyone - anyone at all - where it is, not even a friendly service.

Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

Lord Holl [an] d's criticism upon Beauc [hamp] is not just; he will get nine daughters if he goes on as he does, before me; and I thought once it was a hard-run thing between us.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

The men sank down, eager to lie prone even for a few minutes on the ash-covered soil, to hide their eyes and pant like hard-run hunting dogs.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

Even then, too hard-run to speak, she smiled at him, and Alan caught her up in his arms and darted into the narrow path which he knew their pursuers would not immediately find if they could bet beyond their vision.

The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903

Her face was very white, and she was panting as if hard-run for breath, but her eyes were shining, and she was smiling at him.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

The land that grows heavy clover in a close rotation, or receives all the stable manure, may need neither nitrogen nor potash, while another field, hard-run by timothy and corn, may need a complete fertilizer.

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

The hard-run soil usually is lacking in available supplies of all three plant-food constituents.

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

Setting aside the impression gained from the dissimilarity in the so-called corn, potato, wheat, and grass fertilizers on the market, the farmer knows that the soil which is in a good state of fertility is best for any of them, and if the soil is hard-run, it should have its plant-food supply supplemented.

Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900