1 She had changed more than she knew and the shell of hardness which had begun to form about her heart when she lay in the slave garden at Twelve Oaks was slowly thickening.
2 About the core of her being, a shell of hardness had formed and, little by little, layer by layer, the shell had thickened during the endless months.
3 But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell.
4 I always felt that women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.
5 Something of her dilemma showed in her eyes for Johnnie's expression changed subtly and some of the hardness went out of his face.
6 People will remember for years-- The hardness went out of his face and a malicious light danced in his eyes.
7 And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
8 In childhood, he was remarkable for an extreme and marked sensitiveness of character, more akin to the softness of woman than the ordinary hardness of his own sex.
9 All government includes some necessary hardness.
10 Legree had trained them in savageness and brutality as systematically as he had his bull-dogs; and, by long practice in hardness and cruelty, brought their whole nature to about the same range of capacities.
11 The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
12 He crossed himself twice, as doubting whence arose the unwonted softening of a heart, which on such occasions used to resemble in hardness the steel of his sword.
13 Taking an order, his whole self had changed, glazed over with a sort of hardness and distance.
14 Everything came tenderly out of the old hardness.
15 When he was out among men, seeking his own ends, and 'making good' his colliery workings, he had an almost uncanny shrewdness, hardness, and a straight sharp punch.