" So, in a while, the meal done and crock and pannikin washed and set aside, Beltane's leg is bathed and dressed right skilfully with hands, for all their strength and hardness, wondrous light and gentle.

In proportion to the distress of the applicant was the hardness of his terms.

We need hardly dwell on the boot-cleaning process: three good brushes and good blacking must be provided; one of the brushes hard, to brush off the mud; the other soft, to lay on the blacking; the third of a medium hardness, for polishing; and each should be kept for its particular use.

A friend to whom I submitted a small portion broken off from the rest expressed no doubt that it was a kind of aluminium bronze, but inclined to believe that it contained no inconsiderable proportion of a metal with which chemists are as yet imperfectly acquainted; perhaps, he said, silicon; certainly something which had given to the alloy a hardness and tenacity unknown to any familiar metallurgical compound.

It would be long, Miss Prudence mused, before lines and creases intruded here and there in that smooth forehead, and in the tinted cheeks that dimpled at the least provocation; but life would bring them in time, and they would add beauty if there were no bitterness nor hardness in them.

To whom God said: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of the hardness that they suffer in their works, and I knowing the sorrow of them am descended to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and shall lead them from this land into a good land and spacious, into a land that floweth milk and honey, unto the places of Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

The prince's muscles had lost some of their hardness from high living and he was, moreover, unversed in the great Anglo-American pastime.

There was no hardness in the violet eyes as they rested on him.

he asked, and his cold hardness reminded her of the Tom Morse who had led her to the whip one other night.

In bone it is infiltrated with salts which give bone its hardness, and make it seem so unlike other tissues.

I believe that our health requires a hard seat; because its very hardness inclines us to change, frequently, our position.

He was a younger man than Riley Sinclair, but he gave an impression of as much hardness as Riley himself.

"I hate your modern smartness!" Thorn, noting the hardness of her voice, stopped with an apologetic gesture and let her go.

He complained of the hardness of times, high prices of goods, and poverty of the Indians, and hoped that presents would be given to them.

" Both were sung with great solemnity by the congregation, and then the good old man offered a prayer; after which he addressed the slaves on the shortness of human life and the certainty of death, and more than once hinted at the hardness of their lot, assuring, however, his fellow-slaves, that if they were good and faithful, all would be right hereafter.

Under their influence old things have been made new, and the coldness and hardness of Academic Art have been warmed and softened into life.

In the moment when the first fold of the clod-mantle, that trails about us all at the last, fell protectingly over her, I was in that condition of superlative misery that cries out for something to the very welkin that sends down such harsh hardness; and I hurried my eyes out of the open grave, only to find them again arrested by the same soul that had stood beside Doctor Percival and Alice in her death.

The man must indeed possess an uncommon portion of hardness of heart, who can envy me so slight a relief.

To him it seemed absolutely certain that Farron would die,every one did,but he had for some time been aware of a growing hardness on his part toward the death of other people, as if he were thus preparing himself for his own.

He began, therefore, by inventing a body for earthenware, which at the same time should be white, and capable of enduring a very high degree of heat without fusion, well knowing that the hardness of the ware depended on the high firing to which it has been subjected.

2. An abstract noun is the name of some particular quality considered apart from its substance; as, Goodness, hardness, pride, frailty.

He was the preacher and example of manly hardness, simplicity, purpose in the religious character.

Her enemies said that my lady had tripped in the merry days of George the Second, and now made up for past easiness by present hardness.

Sir George shrugged his shoulders, but little by little his face lost its hardness.

It was that of a woman no longer young, and yet scarcely middle-aged; not a repulsive face; indeed, rather attractive in a way, except for a certain hardness of expression which told of lost illusions.