What is "hardened"

Usage examples of "hardened".

The book instantly galvanized antislavery sentiments and once more hardened the lines between free and slave.

With an army thus trained in many combats, and hardened against misfortune, defeat in one or a dozen battles decided nothing.

That last night at Petershof, Bernardine hardened her heart against the Disagreeable Man.

Even through her black blouse he saw her nipples pebble into hardened points, aching for his mouth to claim their berrylike surface.

The introduction of machinery greatly helped the brickmaking industry in opening up new sources of supply of raw material in the shales and hardened clays of the sedimentary deposits of the older geologic formations, and, with the extended use of continuous firing plants, it has led to the establishment of large concerns where everything is co-ordinated for the production of enormous quantities of bricks at a minimum cost.

But I was all for it, since it meant that Claire and Featherstone could remain at Cranshaw, and just her proximity offered hope, for time back then seemed long enough for anything to happen, even the softening of a heart inexplicably hardened against you.

An early spring cold snap that dipped below freezing had hardened slush, turned rivulets into treacherous slides, and trampled mud into uneven bumps and dips, making it difficult to walk.

The stakes, sharpened at their upper end and hardened by fire, had been fixed by means of cross-bars, and at regular distances props assured the solidity of the whole.

Father Arlworth, who had a subtle understanding of human nature, noticed that Domini was changed and slightly hardened by the tragedy she had known, and was not surprised or shocked.

I reckoned it was going to take me another century or two to become hardened to the mad bull take-offs and landings of these Flettner craft.

The most hardened fisherwomen fled, convinced that looking at the monster could induce goiter, swivel eye, or miscarriage.

As they approached, the antloids were finishing the task, weaving the last strips together and fastening them carefully, sealing the ends with their sticky spit, which hardened into a gumlike substance.

Blood Koli came at mid-morning, twenty soldiers with the hardened leather of their armour dyed black and white.

The vagina and affected parts having been thoroughly cleansed with warm water and Castile soap, as advised in the treatment of leucorrhea, the sponge or cotton should be passed up the vagina with the finger, and pressed rather firmly against the mouth and neck of the womb, which, being enlarged, and, consequently falling below its natural position, will generally be low down in the vagina, and so hardened as to be unmistakably distinguished from the surrounding parts by the sense of touch.

Kate found that the new positioning enabled her to slide her vagina more easily up and down the heatedly pulsating length of his lust hardened cock, and soon established a natural rhythm that gradually increased in tempo until she was bucking on top of him crazily as if she was riding a steer or a Limousin bull.