When prison air and prison influence have succeeded in incasing a man with the sort of moral hardbake that renders him callous to those feelings which at first so gall the raw spots, he finds himself watching with curiosity the shapings of newcomers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

Pencil and squared paper are poor means of conveying information at any time, and when the Adjutant had been assured that the business was really "wholesale hardware," and not "wholesale hardbake," as he had first read it, everything went swimmingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919] Reference

A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

And we gave H.O. some of the hardbake, to make it easier for him to keep his vow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Treasure Seekers] Reference

And we got hardbake and raspberry noyau and peppermint rock and oranges and a coconut, with other nice things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Treasure Seekers] Reference

It was crammed with cakes, butterscotch, hardbake, pots of jam, and even a bottle of ginger wine—enough to compromise a chameleon!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers] Reference

"To think that I played hop-scotch and swopped marbles for hardbake with this gal's mother," thought the captain, "and that her servant turns up his nose at me, and shuts the door in my face!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Floyd. A Novel] Reference

Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Dobbin of Ours] Reference

He borrowed from every one of the pupils -- I don't know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine -- and even from old Nosey's groom, -- pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), -- even from the doctor's groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hardbake and raspberry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent’s Park and the Serpentine, when the weather permitted; for going to the play, whither they were often conducted, by Mr. Osborne’s orders, by Rowson, Master George’s appointed body-servant, with whom they sat in great comfort in the pit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

I'm very fond of hardbake too, and I love cocoa-nut ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wallypug in London] Reference

They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hardbake and raspberry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent’s Park and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

A youth who had been deservedly whipped a few months previously, and who spent his pocket-money on tarts and hardbake, now appeared before Pen in one of those costumes to which the public consent, that I take to be quite as influential in this respect as 'Johnson’s Dictionary,' has awarded the title of 'Swell.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

He borrowed from every one of the pupils — I don’t know how he spent it except in hardbake and alycompaine — and even from old Nosey’s groom, — pardon me, we used to call your grandfather by that playful epithet (boys will be boys, you know), — even from the doctor’s groom he took money, and I recollect thrashing Charles Honeyman for that disgraceful action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

A youth who had been deservedly whipped a few months previously, and who spent his pocket-money on tarts and hardbake, now appeared before Pen in one of those costumes to which the public consent, that I take to be quite as influential in this respect as 'Johnson's Dictionary,' has awarded the title of "Swell. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

A square of hardbake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Calf] Reference

Give yer a lump of hardbake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes] Reference

How pleased to compass hardbake or bull's eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831] Reference

Fine hardbake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Boheme] Reference

"No: chocolates, butter-scotch, hardbake, alecompane.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5] Reference