Soldiers spin toughened to doing quick as good as ruthlessly what contingency be finished to save themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
This may sound attractive for anyone who's seen their credit card terms toughened in the past year. From Wordnik.com. [poststar.com RSS] Reference
The last week she said she had got "toughened," and did not shiver. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Crusoes] Reference
Said Matt: "" Coming from a big family really kind of toughened me up. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
And Boyd had manifestly toughened in that process. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Time-toughened pear, thorns bursting with the plum. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
Should an easier test be used first and then toughened?. From Wordnik.com. [The School Reform Fraud] Reference
Old Hodsie's feet got toughened up, he got to be a sport. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
"The regulations need to be toughened up even more," says. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Funds Flounder] Reference
It read pretty soft on the page, but I think I toughened it. From Wordnik.com. [Supernatural: Sam Is One Angry Dude Upon His Return From Hell] Reference
Imagine that: the terrorists actually toughened up New Yorkers. From Wordnik.com. [The Future Of New York] Reference
Tokyo has toughened its attitude toward Pyongyang in other ways, too. From Wordnik.com. [No Pain, No Gain?] Reference
But the fact is Congress has not toughened mileage regs on cars since 1985. From Wordnik.com. [A Highway to Hell] Reference
Ezra Thompson, an old minister, grizzled and toughened by time and exposure. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Priestley's mind not only cheerfully endured it but actually toughened under it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
The toughened chimneys are about 60 per cent dearer than those of ordinary glass. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The younger man was raised on a kibbutz and toughened as a battlefield commander. From Wordnik.com. [Who Is To Blame?] Reference
Then a pair of sea-blue eyes twinkled, and a salt-toughened face wrinkled in a grin. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
Well, with Clinton in this primary it was tough, and it toughened him up a little bit. From Wordnik.com. [Chuck Todd Examines 'How Barack Obama Won'] Reference
In January, the FDA toughened Meridia's label, and Abbott pulled the drug from Europe. From Wordnik.com. [FDA Panel Split on Meridia Removal] Reference
The will must be exercised in rejecting and accepting that its fiber may be toughened. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
And so bronzed and toughened was his hide that he looked to be made out of sole-leather. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
I was very strong naturally, and my trade as blacksmith had toughened my muscles wonderfully. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
There were girls whose cheeks were so toughened by shame as to be hardly knowable from squaws. From Wordnik.com. [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference
The importing nations could have toughened their laws accordingly -- or so the sellers contend. From Wordnik.com. [Fear On The Hoof] Reference
Cuba says the U.S. trade embargo against the island has toughened under President Barack Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Cuba: US Embargo Tougher Under Obama] Reference
All axles are toughened and annealed by a patented process, giving the strongest axle possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Fathers are also tarred: child-support requirements are toughened and, in theory, so is enforcement. From Wordnik.com. [Welfare Can't Be Reformed] Reference
I, or a sack of corn, or a basket of fish, they were all one to this strong back and to these toughened sinews. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
His inward, inherent power, toughened by exposure and fortified by knowledge, overmasters opposing circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Nokia, the product of a country toughened over the centuries by war on its borders, is aggressive, quick and flexible. From Wordnik.com. [Battle Of The Nordic Giants] Reference
In these sinewy, toughened bodies there was a grim strength that appeared to know neither ache nor fatigue nor satiety. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
He bored two eyes, a nose, and a mouth in the toughened substance, and blackened them vividly with soot from the chimney. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
But the Europeans have grown less patient with the Islamist groups in their midst, and have recently toughened many of their laws. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEXT BATTLE: BRIDGING THE GREAT DIVIDE] Reference
Men grumble about them, and even after they are toughened to them, so that they feel no physical distress, they rarely relish them. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
That means exposing industries like aerospace, steel and petrochemicals to the kind of global competition that has toughened the ITsector. From Wordnik.com. [Betting On Reform] Reference
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