The Scotch hard-faced letter was then extensively in use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

Judas plunged ahead, trying to please the hard-faced men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men Called Him Master] Reference

He saw the hard-faced woman and dipped his head in greeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

Each was a burly hard-faced six-footer in his early twenties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tai-Pan]

Thus spoke a hard-faced woman of some thirty odd, by her looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

BTW, how is the hard-faced, vicious Mrs Obama faring these days?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It was the hard-faced little old gentleman, peeping in from the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Petersen was a tall, hard-faced man with a touch of gray at his temples.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judas Valley] Reference

"That will not be necessary, Mother," the hard-faced woman said hurriedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

He was a hard-faced fellow, with a pair of small, greedy-looking blue eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

“I have a message,” he said in Cantonese to the hard-faced man standing there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typhoon Season]

She was combing out a hard-faced woman with a headful of unconvincing auburn hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]

The hard-faced woman holding the packhorse's head blinked at the rod and edged away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Daggers]

The study door opened and a hard-faced middle-aged blond woman came in, carrying a tray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Scriptwriter]

Dark, elegant, and hard-faced, she looked him up and down as if he were an animal for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Command Decision]

They were Raymond and Ranulf, two hard-faced, hard-muscled men some years older than William.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

On the instant, Memnon was transformed from the blushing young lover to a hard-faced guardsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

And behind the carts followed three hard-faced guards, each woman bearing double blades and a pack.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Order War]

Ma Pu, the first wife, was a gaunt hard-faced woman, stringy from much child-bearing, and Ma Yi, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

A coarse-grained, hard-faced man he was, some forty years of age or so, and of middle height and stature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

Ominously, there were a couple of hard-faced men-at-arms lounging outside the lodge, throwing stones at a barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

A cocky fellow named Charl Gedwyn had charge of them this morning, a hard-faced man who swaggered standing still.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

The hard-faced man who had appeared at his shoulder stood rigid, staring straight ahead from under a conical helmet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Rising]

But so many people who have anything to do with horses and racing are such hard-faced people and so -- so impossible!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference

That hard-faced female with the inky fingers and the walrus moustache was telling me her life story all the way here in the car.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Mr Campion]

But in the hard-faced, unscrupulous woman with which, at the end of the time, her glass presented her, she hardly recognised herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

And, come to that, it didn't take much imagination to turn Paul Mitchell into a hard-faced young colonel, not yet out of his twenties.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Game]