calloused skin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And now its kind of calloused and I learned that my pleasure is only at about 25\% of what it can be. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
KING: Are they as cold and calloused as they sound?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2008] Reference
Wants to burst from aged calloused skin into flames. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
Why do so many of our statesmen have calloused knuckles?. From Wordnik.com. [By the 'Blog's Early Light'] Reference
Her calloused fingers fought hard against those strings. From Wordnik.com. [Bright Red] Reference
They're calloused for the sake of the bending that we do. From Wordnik.com. [Anoushka Shankar's Turn to 'Rise'] Reference
The music teacher smiled, turning calloused palms outward. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
"Luck," Brion said, and shook the technician's calloused hand. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Jacovik turned his hands over and looked at the calloused palms. From Wordnik.com. [The Destroyers] Reference
Drew's hard, calloused hands closed on the back of the pew ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
His hands were red, swollen and calloused as if by years of rowing. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
Merrick's fingers were thick and calloused, which she hadn't expected. From Wordnik.com. [The Sin Eater] Reference
To kill them makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006] Reference
Then Luka's hands are on my wrists, calloused and hot, swinging me round. From Wordnik.com. [The Man From the Circus] Reference
The doctors become calloused; they are used to seeing pain and suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
The older was about sixty, with calloused hands and a chicken-track neck. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
The stained, dirty, calloused, nail-bitten hand on the right was Timiny's. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
He sat down and picked up his knife and fork, his calloused hands trembling. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
A simple statement, as he touched her face gently with calloused fingertips. From Wordnik.com. [Wicked Pleasures]
He laughed, pulled it off the hook his calloused farm hands not bothered a whit. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey Within A Journey] Reference
He reaches under my shirt and unhooks my bra, squeezes my breasts with calloused hands. From Wordnik.com. [Better than Chocolate] Reference
Their hands were hardened by toil, and their fingers calloused by work in the trenches. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
The skin on its palms and the soles of its feet was black, calloused to grey in places. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
The calloused, dirt-encrusted fingers deftly snapped open the circuits, dialed a number. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
She put her calloused hand against her lips and stood listening with agonized intentness. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
It was a rebuking cry, but it failed to touch the calloused heart of the being before her. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
Their hands are working hands, already far too calloused and cracked for such a young age. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2005] Reference
Neither combatant said a word, the rasp of their calloused feet on the sand the only sound. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
PROFESSOR SMITH: If they had calloused in cold storage was it because they had been too warm?. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914] Reference
He held the cords in one calloused hand, a burning match in the other so he could watch the Essex. From Wordnik.com. [Solomon's Orbit] Reference
The costumery's good occupational therapy for me, too, as my pricked and calloused fingertips testify. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
Could they be any more prevalent than they are now, -- bearable only because we are calloused to them?. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
Diana marched up and down in front of him, smacking her left fist into her calloused little right palm. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
"There is another option," he said, scratching the sole of one foot with the calloused heel of the other. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
So the idea that he ` s going to make calloused and insensitive statements isn ` t really surprising to me. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008] Reference
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