Yet was Pharaoh so hard-hearted that he would not suffer the people to depart.

The living of West Fazeby, left vacant because of Mr. Truelocke's sturdiness in his opinion, did not wait long for an incumbent, but was quickly bestowed on a Mr. Lambert; a man not troubled with awkward scruples, for he had been a strong Presbyterian under the Commonwealth, and now was become as strong a Churchman; but an honest man as the world goes now, and not hard-hearted.

cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless &c (unmerciful) 914.1; relentless &c (revengeful)

'No, no, Linden, we must not be so hard-hearted; we must forgive and forget;' and so saying, the baronet threw out his chest, with the conscious exultation of a man who has uttered a noble sentiment.

Many masters are hard-hearted, and bitter to their servants, and by that means do so deject, with terrible speeches and hard usage so crucify them, that they become desperate, and can never be recalled.

For a century and a half after Dryden's time, hard-hearted parents were apt to withdraw their opposition to their children's "felicity" for no better reason than that the fifth act was drawing to a close.

" "We hard-hearted indeed, sir, if we don't.

Why, even we "cut-throat" abolitionists are not so hard-hearted as to overlook the subjects of a relation, because it is wicked.

On the 28th we got to Savannah, and lodged at one Blount's, a hard-hearted slaveholder.

Fred was not a hard-hearted boy, and his sister's tale really grieved him.

Neither Mary nor the saints had taught her to be hard-hearted.

Conceive him enduring all the pangs of love-sickness, never telling his love; "concealment, like a worm in the bud, preying upon his damask cheek," while his hard-hearted mistress stood disdainfully by, "like pity on a monument, smiling at grief."

"She feels for me, and has come in spite of her hard-hearted brother.

Orlando di Lasso, "one of the morning stars of modern times," whose music was so beautiful that once at Munich a thunder-storm was miraculously hushed at the first note of one of his motets, lived a love-life much like Schumann's, save that he seems to have had no hard-hearted parents to strengthen and purify his resolve.

Hard-hearted and severe.

" "Well, I'm sure, he is coarse, disagreeable, hard-hearted.

" At these words, Raphael could not conceal his griefhis sobs were heard from behind, the bedbut the hard-hearted landlord took up the cage, as if the matter was settled.

"For who could be so hard-hearted to be severe?" Cowley.

He has a whimsical, good-humoured face, perhaps showing the rubicund effects of steady drinking (as whose features did not in those halcyon times of merry nights and tired mornings?), and a general air of loving the world and its pleasures, despite a secret suspicion that a hard-hearted bailiff may be lying in wait around the corner.

Then if she is hard-hearted and a long time coming he will say'Bob-white, poor bob-white!'

All went well for a while: Berkeley bought a farm and built a house; but when the hard-hearted prime minister refused to forward the £20,000 which had been promised, the project came to an end, and Berkeley returned to London in February, 1732.

" "Ye're a regular hard-hearted old Turk," cried Roseen, "that's what ye are!

You cannot be so hard-hearted as that.

What a hard-hearted wretch I thought myself to be!

Guiraut de Bornelh's complaints that refinement was vanishing and that nobles were growing hard-hearted and avaricious soon became common-places in troubadour poetry.