1) He forced his thralls into hard labour.

2) He was sentenced to ten years' hard labour.

3) The judge sentenced him to do hard labour.

4) Her palms were excoriated by the hard labour of shoveling.

5) The sentence of the court was twelve years' hard labour, to be served in a British prison.

6) But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.

7) And hard labour ... the railway navvies remembered by a rock band.

8) He was given six months' hard labour after he refused on principle to pay the fine.

9) This meant having to work in hard labour, alongside her husband and possibly children, in order to support her family.

10) The relentless grind of hard labour and ill-health had taken its toll on Booth.

11) However, an extra month's hard labour made good the loss.

12) She would have been doing hard labour in prison.

13) Old age disabled him for hard labour.

14) I certainly wasn't doing hard labour.

15) He was sentenced to five years at hard labour.

16) Her palms were excoriated hard labour of shoveling.

17) They were always eating richly and knew neither hard labour nor sorrow.

18) His palms were excoriated by the hard labour of shoveling.

19) The menfolk have an aged, craggy appearance, being hunch-backed from their hard labour, and wear a long grey beard.

20) Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps, along with bureaucrats doing two weeks' hard labour.

21) Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each.

22) Theo took a shorter journey-to Wormwood Scrubs, where he did four months' hard labour.

23) Fraudulent acts would be tried as misdemeanours and punished by up to two years in prison with or without hard labour.

24) The Vote reported one incident of child assault in Surrey, where a man was sentenced to only four months hard labour.

25) The man who refused to take part was court martialled, cashiered and sentenced to a year's hard labour.

26) A railroad line was completed after six years of hard labour in the swamps andjungles.

27) Thirty hours ago Euna Lee and I were prisoners in North Korea. We feared that at any moment we could be sent to a hard labour camp.

28) We feared that at any moment we could be sent to a hard labour camp.

29) Magellan also put more than 30 other mutineers, including several noblemen, in chains,[http:///hard labour.html] working hard labour.

30) Such an offence shall be punished by detention in prison or at hard labour.

1) He forced his thralls into hard labour.

31) Australia had a racially segregated labour policy, whereby non-white worked in conditions that would ( or could) not be tolerated by whites - e.g. hard labour in the tropics and pearl diving.