You cannot picture a hardier or more spirited race than the fellows I thus recruited.

The terati Talfourd's day were clearly hardier of digestion than their descendants are.

It is hardier than the orange, and, as one of the citron tribe, was brought into Europe by the Arabians.

Children of weakly constitutions are just as likely to be born of robust parents, and those who earn their bread by toil, as the offspring of luxury and affluence; and, indeed, it is against the ordinary providence of Nature to suppose the children of the hardworking and necessitous to be hardier and more vigorous than those of parents blessed with ease and competence.

Sometimes the hardier boys who ventured out there snake-shooting heard a slow thumping of oar-locks on the canal.

The Reverend Dr. Parr, on being requested to undertake it, thus expressed himself in a letter to William Seward, Esq.: 'I leave this mighty task to some hardier and some abler writer.

"Rainey, get my case from the locker, will you?" Rainey hurried to the submarine, a half mile away, while the natives, still half sprawling on the frozen earth, eyed the hardier fellows, while the Doctor bent over them, as if expecting at any moment to see them drop dead as a result of the magic power of these great spirits from the belly of a whale.

But all the valor of the Celtic hero and his chivalrous followers was of no avail before the fierce and persistent attacks of a hardier race, bent on the possession of a fairer land than their own.

But Senor Rabelo had planted another variety, called Forestero, from the Brazils, which was at once of hardier habit, inferior quality, and slower ripening.

The unusual coldness of the past season (Florida winters, from what I heard about them, must have fallen of late into a queer habit of being regularly exceptional) had made it difficult to buy sweet oranges that were not dry and "punky" toward the stem; but the hardier wild fruit had weathered the frost, and was so juicy that, as I say, you did not so much eat one as drink it.

The palmettos, most distinctively Southern of them all, had been badly used by their hardier neighbors; they looked stunted, and almost without exception had been forced out of their normal perpendicular attitude.

Once over distemper troublesand the breed certainly does suffer badly if it contracts the diseasethe Borzoi is as hardy as most breeds, if not hardier.

Unlike painting in oils, it has no resources of transparency, brilliancy, and richness of coloring, but depends for its nobility of effect upon the hardier virtues of art and the more robust genius of the artist.

Weary and sore, we seat ourselves near them, while our hardier companions talk with the respectful group.

But though these are indigenous, like the Indians, I doubt whether they are any hardier than those backwoodsmen among the apple-trees, which, though descended from cultivated stocks, plant themselves in distant fields and forests, where the soil is favorable to them.

Were they not much hardier than the whites many more of them must die than do.

Be sure that what he must mean by them is good to you: a lesson to you, that in some way or other they are meant to make you wiser, stronger, hardier, more sure of God's love, more ready to do God's work, whithersoever it may lead you.

They are also much hardier than those of a larger breed, and may be kept out all winter, excepting when snow is on the ground.

Instead of withering under the incessant parching of passion's flame, she seemed to grow stronger, hardier, in the crucible.

They were supposed to make hardier stocks than those grown from ordinary seeds.

"Almost all Wild Ducks nest in the northern tier of States, or altogether north of them; the hardier species stay with us as winter visitors, but the others only stop to feed, as they follow the rivers and coasts in their migrations.

While the temperature in winter at San Francisco is maintained at a comparatively high point,allowing the outdoor cultivation of some of the hardier varieties of flowering shrubs,the atmosphere, meanwhile, is damp and chilling, and extremely detrimental to most cases of lung difficulties.

He was basking in that sunshine of fame which was so delightful to a temperament differing from that of the average Englishman, as does the physique of the Southern races from that of the hardier children of the North; and lastly, he was exulting in a new-born sense of creative power which no doubt made the composition of the earlier volumes of Tristram a veritable labour of love.

A hot moist climate gives rise to much endemic fever, but encourages a wonderful profusion of tropical growth, giving place in the highlands to the hardier oak and pine, and still higher to a purely alpine flora; as in Australia, the animals are chiefly marsupials; the mountain ranges, which stretch in a more or less continuous line throughout the island, have peaks that touch an altitude of 20,000 ft. and send down many navigable streams.

The shock was tremendous, and many a cry sprang from female lips, while bursts of applause arose from the hardier spectators.