Faced a case-hardened judge.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Ord was better case-hardened, and stood it better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

` I'll be case-hardened by that time, 'was his reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4: Slaves of the Machine] Reference

He knew what this man was, and just how case-hardened he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Lensman]

Verona, Excellency -- the most brazen, the most case-hardened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

It was an old wood-stocked, case-hardened, and very trim version.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why .410 Shotguns Are Better for Experts than for Kids] Reference

We get "case-hardened" to trouble as the years bend our shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Amarilly, case-hardened against raillery by reason of the possession of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference

If hammers are made from material other than axles, are they case-hardened?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

Although case-hardened in a sense, I have never the courage to open the packet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

It seemed to be constructed from thick case-hardened steel or some other alloy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile] Reference

His nervous system was pretty well "shot up" -- it had never been case-hardened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

The old smug strut and case-hardened pomp of legislature inaugurals was lacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

It's just that case-hardened nit-pickers like me can't help noticing these things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nit-pickers of the world unite] Reference

The bullets were little more than case-hardened clay, not real penetrating ceramic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

If Jager was an iron wolf, this, then, was Tyrannosaurus rex in case-hardened steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heirs of Babylon]

Only a case-hardened undertaker could have felt perfectly at home in that atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

The girl's real pain and disappointment were evident even to the case-hardened lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

It is clearly shown by the cupping of the two halves when a case-hardened board is resawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasoning of Wood] Reference

When Foster had finished, there were tears on case-hardened faces and the caucus adjourned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

My constitution is so case-hardened that I believe I could live all the year at Spitzbergen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference

She said the ending made her cry -- not bad for a case-hardened New York City literary agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continued 3H] Reference

As I do not succeed in it, I stare case-hardened ahead of me and fling all shame to the winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

Its color case-hardened receiver, trigger, patch box, hammer and lever are true to the period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rifle Roundup: 27 New Guns for 2006] Reference

I caught the eyes of a row of case-hardened local briefs, all of them grinning from ear to ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nice Try...] Reference

But I am getting case-hardened, and all these attacks will make me only more determinedly fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

Precious work I had, with a heavy dog-cart, no servant, and a hack whose mouth was case-hardened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

And case-hardened politicians who had borne the burden and the heat of the day with Laurier, wept.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

Big "Contino Out of Jail" coverage -- most of it portrayed me as a coward case-hardened by prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Nocturne]

And I am case-hardened to the instantaneous scattering and dodging of young men that ensue the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference

Italy, through this portal, was capable of casting a spell even upon a traveller so case-hardened as Smollett.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

Calm came to her presently, even cheerfulness -- so mercifully is the mature heart case-hardened to bear its burdens.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

Soon, however, one becomes case-hardened, and only suffers the immediate annoyance consequent upon its tickling and pricking.    From Wordnik.com.  [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference

We then successively swiped our cards and one by one passed through a floor-to-ceiling turnstile made of case-hardened steel bars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gwyneth Cravens: The Truth About Nuclear Energy] Reference

File testing of case-hardened parts is very common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel] Reference

But there were case-hardened politicians on both sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

I'm getting case-hardened, but it does cut me to the quick sometimes -- it does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wives and Daughters] Reference

Even when cutting case-hardened varieties, high productivity rates are achieved, Kasto said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference