1 As for Aunt Pitty, she was nervously trying to stifle a belch, for the rooster they had had for supper was a tough old bird.
2 His body seemed so tough and hard, as tough and hard as his keen mind.
3 For all his lankiness he was tough, and good nursing pulled him through.
4 He paused and gnawed the tough pone and Scarlett shivered.
5 He's stubborn and he's got a mouth as tough as iron.
6 That doesn't help a man pull himself out of a tough fix, like we're all in now.
7 He was tough and hard and there was no nonsense about him.
8 They are a tough and bullheaded lot.
9 The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. 10 The Negro tough, on the contrary, is given to just that kind of offending, and he almost invariably singles out white people as his victims.
11 He affects a "tough" aspect, wearing his hat on one side and keeping a cigarette in his mouth all the evening.
12 Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.
13 An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the eyes of a tough little bird.
14 He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained.
15 Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths, she wasn't all tough rubber-goods and platinum, like the modern girl.