1. 4 Hard words break no bones, fine words butter no parsnips. 

2. The malady is marked by nasty kicks, retaliatory shoves, hard words and worse.

3. We learn, mistakenly, that good writing is obscure, dense and full of hard words.

4. But then the Bandmaster made a little speech full of hard words, saying that it was just as good as before

5. We accept the need to work constructively with Russia, although we expect hard words on Chechnya and on Russia's vanishing political pluralism.

6. Then, Mr Wegg, in a dry unflinching way, entered on his task; going straight across country at everything that came before him; taking all the hard words, biographical and geographical; getting rather shaken by Hadrian, Trajan, and the Antonines; stumbling at Polybius (pronounced Polly Beeious, and supposed by Mr Boffin to be a Roman virgin