1.   The bush was too firmly rooted in the hard earth to dig up easily.

2.   It detached itself from the thicket and reached rose-thorn fingers into the hard earth.

3.   Around Cu Chi, all human life had taken cover in an increasingly elaborate tunnel system deep in the hard red earth.

4.   But at Twin Hill and dozens of other tanks, the water is gone, exposing foot-deep cracks in the hard earth.

5.   I worked for what seemed like hours, trying to extricate it, unharmed, from its foundation of hard earth.

6.   In efforts to find some privacy, many have built waist-high walls with black volcanic rock and try to grow vegetables in the inhospitable hard earth.

7.   On a disused golf course outside Harare, Lina Smoke sits on the hard sandy earth in the shade of a peach tree.

8.   The shells flew high over the peaks with a high-pitched whistle and slammed into the hard Indian earth with bright, orange flashes.