But Piers, with a sudden hardening of the jaw, stooped over Gracie.

Two days later, there having been a slight yielding of the snow under the warmth of the noon-day sun, and a consequent hardening of its crust in the succeeding night, Roswell and Stimson undertook to return this visit, with a view to make a last effort to persuade Daggett to quit the wreck and come over to the house altogether.

He was undoubtedly more careful than ninety-nine out of a hundred of his fellow-citizens, in getting the value of what he spent, to the uttermost splitting of farthings; and when he spoke of money there was a certain cruel hardening of the hard lines in his face, which Veronica never failed to notice with dislike.

Masamuné expressed it well in his oft-quoted aphorism"Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; Benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

The girl kept on, conscious that her irksome critic was taking keen note of a subtle, cruel decay of her beauty, a spiritual corrosion that, without other fault to the eye, had at last reached the surface in a faint hardening of lines and staleness of bloom.

The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious.

Judicious "hardening" means ample exposure of well-fed and well-clothed children.

As is only to be expected, the first noticeable hardening of the cartilage is to be found near the normal bone.

Thus nature lends a gradual protective hardening to a tender surface during abrasion with a coarser thing.

Thus nature lends a gradual protective hardening to a tender surface during abrasion with a coarser thing.