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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Hard (Adjective)
 
  Hard as a brick.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Hard as a cobble-stone.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Hard as a cricket-ball.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Hard as granite.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Hard as hail stones.
            —Anonymous		  5
  As hard as horn.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Hard as marble.
            —Anonymous		  7
  As hard as the rocks of Dundee.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Hard as flint.
            —Robert Burton		  9
  Hard as adamant.
            —Robert Cawdray (A Treasurie or Store-house of Similies, 1600)		  10
  Hard as a 1907 prune.
            —Helen Green		  11
  Hard as a barren stepmother’s slap.
            —Lady Gregory		  12
  Hard as wire.
            —John Heywood		  13
  As hard as the heart of a religious foe-curser.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  14
  Hard as an egg at Easter.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  15
  Hard as nails.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  16
  Hard as iron.
            —Thomas Lodge		  17
  Hardeneth like the Adama[n]t.
            —John Lyly		  18
  Fingers, hard as a lobster’s claws.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  19
  Hard as the devil’s nagnails.
            —G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)		  20
  Hard as a sheet of brass.
            —Ouida		  21
  Hard as a pine-knot.
            —James K. Paulding		  22
  Hard as steel.
            —William Shakespeare		  23
  Hard as the palm of ploughman.
            —William Shakespeare		  24
  Hard as the push of death.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  25
  Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
            —Old Testament		  26
  Hard as Severn salmon dried in Wales.
            —Ned Ward		  27
  Hard as a flint stone.
            —Leonard Wright (A Display of Dutie)		  28
 
 
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