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He wrote his name on Oxford's roster—Cecil John Rhodes—but never studied overhard.

From Time Magazine Archive

They gained now on their pursuers, who had pressed their horses overhard to make up the five-mile handicap.

From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

Brother, he saith, 'But it is nought: the work is overhard.'

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean

And that de Vallorbes has been heard to lament openly that he is not a native of some enlightened country in which the divorce court charitably intervenes to sever overhard connubial knots.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

At least it was as genteel an expression that the party had been overhard travelled, as the most polite pedestrian could propose to himself.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir