His hands were suddenly hard on my arms, and he forced me back.

It was suddenly hard to breathe, thinking of Miri dead.

She felt something snap, and it was suddenly hard to breathe.

He was still smiling, but his eyes were suddenly hard.

In fact, it was suddenly hard to picture them.

She looked at Willie from very dark blue eyes which were suddenly hard with self-condemnation.

Ned Beaumont, looking up from his empty glass, became suddenly hard and cold of eye.

The result was that some listeners were suddenly hard up for recordings of the music they liked.

He gripped my arm then, and those baby blue eyes of his were suddenly hard.

"I've asked you not to call me that in front of others," she reminded him in a suddenly hard voice.