A couple of hard-eyed guards stepped into his path.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Is The Darkness]

She was much changed, of course, hard-muscled and hard-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

But there was no respect at all in Ryan Buckhart's hard-eyed gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gage Butler's Reckoning]

He was standing near the piano, directing a hard-eyed gaze at Amanda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyoming Territory]

"Because," Marl continued, managing not to gulp under her hard-eyed stare.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Warning]

They came one by one to her fire, rough and bloodied, hard-eyed and weary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lioness]

Marco's hard-eyed narrowed look silenced her: 'Who painted it?' he demanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bellini Bride]

When he went he found the little, dry, hard-eyed woman in a terrible passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

Officer Bonanno was confronting the reporters, hard-eyed behind his bifocals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courting Trouble]

An aura of degradation flowed from hard-eyed inmates, made shame well up in Tony.    From Wordnik.com.  [In His Own Defense]

Harper — hard-eyed, and with evidently a great and dismal purpose in his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference

The boy - Andrew - was eleven years old and already rebellious, hard-eyed and tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Hilt]

The soldier was young and, like so many of the Thrakian mercenaries, hard-eyed and cruel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

Still, she righted herself with the same hard-eyed purpose that had brought her this far.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Krynn]

It was the hard-eyed, black-skinned Turanian army sergeant he had seen asking after Emilio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Unconquered]

He spun, suddenly hard-eyed, and for the first time held his sword blade forward in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Chaos]

Here and there I noted hard-eyed little brown men who seemed less than enchanted with our advent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Games]

He is a hard-eyed data-driven guy and I could tell that he had hidden doubts about Kerry's chances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digital Dispatches] Reference

The hard-eyed man and the others had rousted us from the stockade at dawn and marched us into town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

The oldest boys, one big and burly, one dark-skinned and hard-eyed, held the prods against his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armageddon's Children]

Sergeant Lavin, hearing his name, turned his squat, hard-eyed head and looked at Sharpe with disdain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Honour]

But the woman had only stared at her with hard-eyed pity, and refused to answer any of her questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond World's End]

And that was why the tall, good-looking, hard-eyed private called Richard Sharpe was thinking of running.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Tiger]

He would have fit in well with the hard-eyed men she had often seen idling around the New York City streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Blow]

Laeta grumbled, but trotted away down the street, her coterie of hard-eyed urchins surrounding her like a bodyguard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

"And get rid of me!" cried Lily, wild-haired, hard-eyed, hoarse-throated, with the tears drying on her red-hot cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

The gangsters 'set jaws and hard-eyed glares offered ample evidence that they were not pleased with how events had turned out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angel With No Hands]

Within moments, the world exploded in furious debate over 38 minutes worth of hard-eyed Baghdad gunfire and death back in 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wikileaks Incident: How Social Media has Changed Warfare Coverage] Reference

He's pulled in, though equally put off, by his soft-faced, hard-eyed girlfriend Jennifer (a fine performance by Taylor Momsen).    From Wordnik.com.  ['Paranoid Park'] Reference

Tanya Maurer of Bellevue said she heard even hard-eyed politicos gushing about peace and compassion at a Democratic caucus meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will The Dalai Lama���s Message Live On?] Reference