What is "harden"

Usage examples of "harden".

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.

But the hardening brown earth between her toes, that was discomfiting.

He does not need to try perilous experiments with his own soul in order to make sure that lust defiles, that avarice hardens, that frivolity empties, that selfishness cankers the heart.

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.

She frowned, her dark, fine brows drawing together and the lines in that strong, crepy face hardening.

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.

One writer, who evidently has not read Poilane, recommends tying plastic bags round the handles of your water faucets to avoid sealing them closed when the dough from your hands dries and hardens on them.

He had seen her eyes and the tears spilling from them, and he had seen her heart harden and wither, and he knew, even before Tarik was sentenced to the firestone mines, that if the sentence had Shunned Tarik, it had killed Dara.

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.