Marriage rings are not of this stuffe; 5 Oh, why should ought lesse precious, or lesse tough Figure our loves?
Suspitious boldnesse to this place belongs, And to'have as many eares as all have tongues; Tender to know, tough to acknowledge wrongs.
But it wus this last move of hisen that killed her; for I tell you, it is pretty tough on a mother to have her baby, a part of her own life, took right out of her arms, and gin to a stranger.
The central core is tough and is about the same diameter at the tip as it is close to the main trunk of the tree.
In earlier times, the tough stringy bark was used in making fiber bags, but these are scarcely ever seen today.
They are an ivory white when used and very tough and flexible.
It is split into two and coiled, to furnish a very tough flexible cord.
The tough fibrous bark of young basswood trees furnishes all Ojibwe with ready cordage and string in the woods, but it is also prepared by the women for future use.
With their mandibles they scrape wood and plants, the fragments of which they agglutinate together in such a way as to form a tough cardboard.
It only exists among insects which live on solid matters, hard vegetables, small animals, tough skin, &c.
Must have been a tough old boy; for that never fazed him.
You see, with an ex-waitress mother, and a Hungry Jim for a father, Royce might be too tough for anything but a Coney Island spiel-fest.
Pretty tough to be branded a murderess, no matter whether you're in the grave or out of it.
I say I can understand it, but mother and Vivian will never be able to get it through those tough skulls of theirs.
Ye see, Hokum and Toddy Whitney and Wiggin are all putty softly fellers, and hate dreffully to work; and I tell you the Kidd money ain't to be got without a pretty tough piece o' diggin.
Surely the new nation must have found this class of citizens a very tough morsel for its digestion.
A person must be of remarkably tough sensibilities who would not feel ashamed under such circumstances if he did not take hold with the rest and do his part.
Wait a moment, please," he continued hurriedly; "this branch is so tough and my knife is small.
He bid high for the girl, I can tell you that, but I believe our friend Saul had a tough job to get her to marry him.
He might also have instanced the English proverb, "As tough as a Michaelmas goose.
The old man jerked the cane back and was standing there with a thintough steel rapier.
It was a new role for her, but, with a bold front, she went out and passed down to the gate of the grounds, pulling her hat down over her eyes and assuming a tough swagger.
The emissary selected the captain, a more than ordinarily tough looking individual.
But he was so noticeably tough that I turned and looked.
If the fellow doesn't appear to be too tough a customer, we will bring him to action and sail back in triumph.
They were afraid of attempting to seize me, for they knew well that they would have found it a tough job.
You may say so without any risk of telling an untruth; for, on the word of a hunter, I never had such a tough job.
Oh, oh, you have a tough job before you; there are eighteen of us, do you know that?
But--but it's a mighty tough proposition worrying that way on--on an empty stomach.
They're pretty tough boys to look at, but I'd say they're all right.
He had red-brown whiskers and nothing on his chin or upper lip, and his whiskers were not stiff and tough like whiskers generally are, but smooth and silky and fluffy.
Well, when school began again we began having clod fights with the Graveyard Gang again and some of them were pretty tough fights.
And all in among the seaweed are tough weeds and water-lily stems and water vines.
He is so imbued with notions of his own dignity that he would prove a tough subject to manage.
We boys must be boys to the end of the chapter; and I tell you, some of us are pretty tough subjects!
If the buckskin should break-- He thanked God that it was the tough babiche that had been around his pack.
He had found a tough job waiting for him, he said.
A lewd-mouthed American named Tim, who said he was a hatter out of work, and a loud-talking tough called Pete mingled with a straggle of hoboes.
The tough grabbed at Bill's shirt-collar across the mattress.
Far from being tough or vicious in his manner or conversation, the little Alderman is very quiet.
I must be a pretty toughold nut, the way I keep hangin' on.
You people always are a tough proposition for my young folks.
Our family don't break very easy, and as I said before, my shell was thick and tough for my age.
I'm afeard ye'll find it kindertough luck, for as far ez I kin understand it is tough even on a man.
Earl and I were used to pretty tough weather up in the Maine woods, as you know," replied Randy.
And a gang of toughkids sprang up called the "Kilkenny Cats," with which my gang used to fight.
