The face is full of softnesses and hardnesses, flutters and rustles, colors and textures. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)
Kyanite has a unique physical feature in that it has two different hardnesses. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As each work of his was ruined he withdrew further into the hardnesses of frosted pride, for he was of the stuff of fanatics. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
The table shows the types and hardnesses of the abrasives. ❋ Rolf Jakoby (1993)
She had her full share of difficulties, hardnesses, disappointments, and physical weakness; but, whatever her feelings were, she rose above them, and went on with her work. ❋ Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter (N/A)
Let us give the name of 'sense-data' to the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, hardnesses, roughnesses, and so on. ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)
To give myself to fasting, watching, and prayer, to suffer or abstain or avoid, in a word all the hardnesses of life seem when compared with ❋ William Ralph Inge (1907)
None of them had knowledge enough, or insight enough, to conceive or sympathize with the humanity of the thirteenth century, to shudder at its cruelties and hardnesses and persecutions, or to comprehend the spiritual elevation and insight of its rarest minds. ❋ G. H. Mair (1906)
Even in the Madonna of the Brera Gallery (1510), which shows Gian Bellino's finest landscape of the late time, certain hardnesses of colour in the main group suggest the possibility of a minor co-operation by Basaiti. ❋ Phillips, Claude (1897)
Apart from the one great boyhood sorrow, a sorrow which had been allowed unduly to magnify itself with the passing years, he had never been brought face to face with any of the hardnesses which alone can make the soldier of life entirely intrepid in the shock of battle. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
'I have lately been reading one or two volumes of The Rambler; who, excepting against some few hardnesses [1335] in his manner, and the want of more examples to enliven, is one of the most nervous, most perspicuous, most concise, [and] most harmonious prose writers I know. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
Nevertheless the excitement of it had thrilled and broken up the hardnesses of her own nature. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
But when these various hardnesses aroze amongst some of the brethern, the rest of the men kinder joined in with 'em, some on one side, and some on the other, and they all baulked right out of the harness. ❋ Marietta Holley (1881)
She had small hardnesses and little vulgarities of manner that drove him mad. ❋ J. Andr�� [Illustrator] Castaigne (1881)
From her earliest childhood she had understood, somehow, that there was a Dabney habit of mind, which was by comparison soft and if not yielding, then politic: and set over against it there was a Thorpe temper full of gnarled and twisted hardnesses, and tenacious as death. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)
No doubt, then, the hardnesses and difficulties of any one's lot are part of the divine ordering for the best growth of the person's life. ❋ Unknown (1876)
The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
