| 单词 | calloused |
| 例句 | The world’s war found Aziz and her mother and the old cook and the harvesters—and put its calloused hand over their mouths. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I touched the small pillow where Abuelo’s head had rested and had an image of him deftly peeling an orange in a long ribbon to his bare feet, which were brown, calloused, and delicately shaped. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z An image of him with his greasy hair and wiry black beard and blue calloused fingers fills my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He touches my cheek tenderly with his calloused fingers, leaves them there. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My hands are rough and calloused from manning the tiller. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z His palms, as pink as his gums, were calloused, and his fingertips were stained with age and soil. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Farhad held the creature in his calloused and dusty hands and pulled a roll of parchment from the tube tied around its leg. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z What could his calloused hands produce to make her smile? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her about his ocean eyes and calloused fingers. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She pushed a calloused finger along my lips, and I shut up. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He grabs my jaw between his rough, calloused fingers and squeezes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He was in his early twenties and his hands were calloused and hard from labor. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m surprised to know that his fingers are calloused with wear. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I sees the palms of his hands calloused to granite, and the long fingers curled up and still. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z My student hand, clean and soft, on his laborer’s hand, grubby and calloused. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Matty could see the slender palms and the strong fingers, calloused at their tips from the garden work, the loom, and the needles that she used for her complicated, beautiful tapestries. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Hassan and I stand ankle-deep in untamed grass, I am tugging on the line, the spool spinning in Hassan’s calloused hands, our eyes turned up to the kite in the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His feet look like animal paws in sandals, heavily calloused with thick nail- claws and coated with dirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z True, work in the fields had calloused her hands, but it had given her a strong, erect body. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On the fifth finger of his calloused hand there was a woman’s wedding ring. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z You never think it will be your own home that’s on fire, but when it is, all the toughness, the calloused nonchalance of watching fires and hearing sirens falls away. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Because she went barefooted, the soles of her feet were calloused, but the toes were straight, never having known the pinch of new shoes or any kind of foot covering. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Wrigley continued to work his way down the hallway, one door at a time, prying splinters of wood from the Yale locks and gathering them in his calloused palm. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His grip was solid, his hand calloused and scarred. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was small, the skin dry and calloused. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jeanne tried to scream, but a strong, calloused hand was clamped over her mouth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He felt her calloused hand move gently over his swollen jaw long before he saw her red- rimmed eyes peering down at him. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands were huge, stained, and calloused, and he was dressed in a cheap white-linen suit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Percy tried to ignore her sour breath and her calloused hands clinging to his neck. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Her fingers became calloused from scrubbing the hall floor, and she learned how to carry the heavy bucket of soapy water up the stairs without spilling a drop. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The pages were thin and her fingers calloused and clumsy, and she did not know the spelling. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “There is another option,” he said, scratching the sole of one foot with the calloused heel of the other. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Celaena stumbled, her calloused feet slipping on the smooth floor as she straightened herself. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He sat on a stump and stared at his hands, calloused where the hammer and saw handles rubbed against his skin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The palm was calloused and weathered, the nails thick and curved, a miraculous construction of leather and horn. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I would see clumsy, work-hardened, calloused hands scrawling and scratching signatures on the contract, agreeing to highway- robbery interest rates in the fine print that never was read. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl wore a peasant blouse and a nondescript ankle-length skirt; her calloused and dirty feet were bare. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard his calloused palm rub at his moustache, an old habit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But Dorian held fast to her calloused palm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Frankie had reached under the table to take my hand, his calloused fingers anchoring my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Nothing but hard work—so hard that her mind became as calloused as her hands—work alone remained. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then I blinked and, for just a moment, the hands holding the spool were the chipped-nailed, calloused hands of a harelipped boy. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I watched the way his sandals pounded the pavement, slapped his black, calloused heels. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I picture those hands as mine really are, large with slender fingers and calloused knuckles from hours at the punching bag. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He sidled closer to her, and his fingers brushed hers—calloused, warm, and hard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps my soul, now as calloused as my hands, could have borne such a wedding. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The hands that gripped my waist were bruised and calloused, but his lips were soft as velvet, yielding against my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His master’s calloused hand would rub the great neck, and he’d say “Good Sounder, good Sounder.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If they were still on the body of Tartarus, Percy figured they must be on the bottom of his foot—a rough, calloused expanse where only the most disgusting plant life grew. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “And these are from me to keep those calloused farmer’s feet of yours from wearing out the demons’ streets.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I look to his hands, calloused and big enough to entirely envelop my own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His hand is leathery and calloused from the hard work he has done here. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Her hands were calloused and blistered from working with rope. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But I don’t want to become a calloused man. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was strong and calloused, a sculptor’s hand that knew hard hours of work with hammer and chisel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her fingers were calloused and her hands were strong. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z His hand feels rough and calloused, but his grip is gentle. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands, well calloused from years of harvesting, were stripped of their toughness and became soft in the wash water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They were scarred, bruised, calloused, greasy; one fingernail was black and blue and coming off—some hands. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In turn we walked up, took his ancient, calloused hand and wished him a good day. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His only hand was soft and smooth, not like the rough, red, calloused hands of farmers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Lourdes felt his calloused palm, the metal of his ring clapping her temple. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then with the familiar feel of rooftop under my calloused feet I ran, jumped, ran, slid, and jumped again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The creature stuck out a long black tongue and slapped the glass with calloused hands. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Her fingers were surprisingly calloused—in all the spots where the hilt of a sword or dagger might rest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A calloused hand, a healed cut, the shiny slash of a burn on the deep bronze skin. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z My father came up to me and put his broad, calloused hands on my shoulders. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom Owens reached a calloused hand and almost broke Nat’s fingers with his grip. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than the usual blustery curmudgeon, Mr. Hogan’s Chris Christopherson is a cautious, gentle man, both cowed and calloused by years at sea. Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z His left leg is in plaster from hip to heel, just the calloused khaki sole peeping out the end of the sheet. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The very tips of my forefingers are calloused from feeling out “bad” hairs, wiry strands with just the right kinky texture. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z This is how these old farmers dress in Ireland, and his hands were all calloused and dirty. Moroccan road film subverts Hollywood stereotypes 2012-12-21T13:50:50Z Or, you’d simply take a piece of meat directly from Mr. Giottoli, an action best suited for the calloused fingertips of the career farmer. A Working Vacation on an Umbrian Farm 2014-05-09T19:04:24Z The young niece he found there was “tall and broad and calloused,” with a wide nose and deep-set eyes, but something in her answered Mr. Rindge’s purpose. Review: ‘The King and Queen of Malibu,’ a History of Paradise 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z She describes herself as looking like Audrey Hepburn but with a rectangular body, poor grooming, calloused hands and no erotic charisma. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z When she covered my manicured hands with her leathery ones, my diamond ring seemed to triple in size and poke her calloused palms with aggressive affluence. The Valentine’s Day we got it all wrong — and right 2014-02-14T00:00:00Z “I think of it mostly as a series of meetings where I would slap myself so hard, I would leave with a calloused forehead.” "Fight Club": David Fincher on clashing with Ed Norton, battling Fox over marketing, bad box office 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z In 1987, when she turned 40, she made photographs of the finely lined hands and calloused feet of other women the same age, in reverential close-up. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z His thick stubby fingers fumbled between the rose petals, and a dirty yellow nail drove between the rims snapping the locket open in his calloused hand. Morris Gleitzman short story competition winners 2012-08-28T11:36:20Z Ours is a city of calloused hands, strong virtue, and beginnings. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z But Jacy is entranced by his calloused hands and soft heart, the way he turns glass tubes and colored powders into objects of beauty. A Cabin in the Woods, Intermittent Wi-Fi and a Dead Landline 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z While I wear gloves to protect my hands from the rough pavement, his bare hands are heavily calloused. Urban Athlete: His Workout Partner? The City 2011-07-07T22:15:32Z Not to mention those whose calloused hands helped clear the land and feed the nation. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Guys with calloused hands and hard-set jaws, massed there at the bar in the Rickshaw, a mob hangout with a pagoda on the roof, across from the racetrack in Cherry Hill, N.J. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z A desk jockey’s soft hands immediately distinguish him from a laborer with his calloused palms. Perspective | The handshake will return. It’s too much a part of who we are. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z A moment later a large, calloused hand gripped my bare upper arm. Thief 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She reached across the table to clutch his calloused hands, to examine that flimsy cell-block ring, to accept. Love’s Road Home 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z No one noticed the calloused fingers of my pulling hand, or how I secluded myself for hours, only to emerge with conspicuous spots of bare red skin. I was a secret hair puller 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z I work on that chin-up until my arms become sore and my hands are calloused, but often get frustrated. Mind, body and soul: the rise of the holistic wellness makeover 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z “Magic shops are disappearing because of the Internet,” Roth said during one of my visits while he extended his calloused hands toward the roof. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z But when he speaks, it is with the wisdom of someone whose calloused fingers are on the rhythmic pulse of Mother Nature. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z It was one of the most perfect television finales ever made, and it came from the same calloused heart responsible for Life in Hell. Why Matt Groening's new adult fantasy Disenchantment will find the fun side of hell 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Even in The Lighthouse, Pattinson’s gnarled, calloused performance is principally characterised by helpless, flailing defeat. How Robert Pattinson became an unlikely arthouse superstar 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Pompous, calloused, dismissive, he’s a parade float begging for a hole to be poked in it. Movie Review: ‘Madrid, 1987,’ Directed by David Trueba 2012-10-12T02:48:01Z And, more quietly, they betrayed my own inner softness, which was also wide and long and fast, but not calloused – instead tender as a wound. My big, strong, manly hands 2012-12-07T20:15:00Z “I rise today in solidarity with the thousands of workers with calloused hands and broken spirits working for no pay.” For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Sound asleep, I awoke in the middle of the night to the force of a cold, calloused hand across my mouth. I got pregnant from rape 2012-08-22T00:00:00Z This Sally is a pragmatist, with a calloused core. ‘Cabaret’ and ‘Hedwig’ Get Tougher Onstage 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z “It’s almost like the month off, the skin on top of the thumb, which is typically maybe a little more calloused, went away,” he said. Max Scherzer has cut on pitching thumb, says it won’t hinder him from pitching in World Series 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z “When you have one-party rule for 30, 40 years, the dominant party becomes a little bit arrogant, and calloused and unconcerned about any other voices than the ones that they hear themselves.” Dumb money? A Redmond man bets $5 million on resurrecting the state GOP 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z There’s an achingly tender close-up of her tiny pale hand resting on his calloused, grimy mitt, and we sense the contrast of delicacy and hardship that awaits this duo’s way through their world. Review: Counterprogram your summer with the magical realist charms of 'Scarlet' 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z His hands, gnarled and calloused, were often on the receiving end of our jokes, but he’s always quick to remind us, “These hands put you two girls through college.” What’s a Carhartt jacket without the calluses? | Reader essay 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Akinmusire’s new album on Blue Note, “on the tender spot of every calloused moment,” waxes tense and deep. Grammys’ best new artist comes to Seattle, and other jazz shows to catch 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Too many of my fellow Democrats have become calloused to places like eastern Kentucky because they are deemed a lost cause. Opinion | The Kentucky flooding is horrific. So is some Democrats’ lack of sympathy. 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Slowly, my calloused heart started to open again toward the Scriptures, thanks to the candor of my family members and our conversations. How a photographer grew closer to his family, and his faith, during the pandemic 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z He described his early years farming this way: “My dirty hands became more heavily calloused and my work boots quickly wore out. I was more exhausted than I had ever been, and I was happy.” Haunted by his father’s role in Vietnam, he turned to farming to grow a new legacy 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z "After 214 years we have achieved a government of the people, a popular government, a government of people with calloused hands ... the government of the nobodies of Colombia," she said. Colombia elects first Black woman VP Francia Marquez, who vows to stand for 'nobodies' 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z With temperatures spiking to 110 degrees once more, Jeetram Yadav sat in the shade on his farm outside New Delhi and cupped a handful of this season’s disappointing wheat between his calloused palms. 49 million people face famine as Ukraine war, climate disasters intensify 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z With the exception of the tiny minority who are as morally calloused, intellectually obtuse and politically motivated as James, most Americans surely think as Murray does: “Why walk ‘proudly’ into an abortion clinic? Opinion | America’s abortion debate has non-debatable parameters 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “My dirty hands became more heavily calloused and my work boots quickly wore out,” he writes. Review | Robert McNamara as a loving father — who couldn’t talk about Vietnam 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Standing outside a mine’s entrance, Mr. Hadi, the former soldier, wiped his hand on his shirt and looked at his calloused palm. Desperate for Cash, Afghans Toil in Mines That Are Deadlier Than Ever 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z "Some teams have to get knocked around a little bit in order to be calloused up enough. This group showed some grit right from the start." No. 10 Wisconsin succeeding at record rate in close games 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “Some teams have to get knocked around a little bit in order to be calloused up enough. This group showed some grit right from the start.” No. 10 Wisconsin succeeding at record rate in close games 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Lobkova often recommends this regimen to patients with dry or calloused skin: At night, slather on a thin layer of a urea-based cream, and make it a bit thicker on the cracked areas. Stop soaking: Here’s how to treat the dry, cracked skin on your feet 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Losing can harden even the most loyal of followers, who have grown calloused while waiting for another chance at a Super Bowl appearance. Saleh insists Jets’ rebuild is different, ‘an actual plan’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Pittman was critical of United Airlines’ “calloused” approach toward employees seeking religious exemptions, but said in the end human resources policy was up the company and no employee was forced to accept a vaccine. U.S. judge upholds United Airlines' COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Where the pinkie contacts the phone can also become calloused and sore, she said. How to avoid ‘smartphone pinkie’ and other pains from being glued to your phone 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z "That experience turned my heart calloused and cold," she says. 'I studied law in jail - now I want to change the system' 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z They hang by their fingers and often trust their body’s weight to a single point of contact — a toehold, a wedged elbow or knee, a patch of a calloused fingerprint. Sport Climbers Add a New Worry (Heat) to an Old One (Gravity) 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Griffith asked to see his hands, which were calloused and covered in cuts. An Australian inventor wants to stop global warming by electrifying everything Another farmworker, a broad-shouldered man with calloused hands, echoes the sentiment. Will COVID Force Public Health to Confront America’s Epic Inequality? 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “Bare feet planted firmly on the land, hands calloused with the work of sustaining and nourishing our community.” Review: A book celebrating Black American farming history 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z So the widows endure, most of them earning a pittance in the wool-processing trade, which leaves their hands calloused and discolored. In a Village of Widows, the Opium Trade Has Taken a Deadly Toll 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z “Any attempt by the GOP to push through a rushed appointment process” before the presidential election “would be a calloused affront to her notorious legacy,” said U.S. Massachusetts congressional members mourn Ginsburg’s passing 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Besieged as we are by plague and crisis, a dollop of this “calloused hope,” as Booker calls it, offers an incentive to persevere. Opinion | We Interrupt This Gloom to Offer … Hope 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The percentage argument, therefore is meaningless and calloused. Editorial Roundup: Georgia 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z He held his head in his chalky, calloused hands. Adam Ondra’s Race to the Top 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z And finally the Americans took thee in their grasping, calloused hands and turned thee into an instant powder, and added freeze-dried marshmallows, and thus the transformation from an ancient god into a pale, gritty echo. Hot chocolate has gone downhill over the years, but you still can find peaks of goodness 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z His hands were deeply calloused and rough, like a barefoot runner’s feet. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z He, like the island, was a relic from another time: a waterman with worn features, calloused hands and an ability to live peacefully in the sometimes harsh conditions of the bay. This classroom on a Chesapeake Bay island taught generations of students. As the sea rises, its doors are closing. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Han was barely 30, but they were wrinkled and calloused, as though they belonged to someone a decade or two older. She fled North Korea for a better life. How her lonely, impoverished death became political 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z "Your calloused actions ruined many lives. I hope that what little was done here today will bring some peace to these families," the Desert Sun reported. Families confront cop killer sentenced to death for shooting 2: 'I hope you burn in hell' 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z “I think he’s probably become a little bit more calloused to playing on first and second down and not just a third-down player. But, he keeps working and he’s got a great attitude.” Titans young inside linebackers ready to make NFL impression 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “Your feet would get calloused and permanently ingrained with dirt,” Abby said. Perspective | Exploring America from the rumble seat of a 1937 Packard 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Macfadyen has “done a brilliant job of creating this hard, calloused protection for someone who is quite a softie,” Snook said. Matthew Macfadyen is as mortified by 'Succession' as you are 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z What we’ve interpreted as toughness—weathered skin, calloused hands, a squint in the eye and a growl in the voice—only masks the tenderness inside. The Persuasive Power of the Wolf Lady 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z It becomes tenderised – for the most part – not calloused or hard. March is usually my favourite month – but the blows have landed hard | Brigid Delaney 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z His hand convulsed on the foreign fingers: they were long, thick, the skin dry and calloused. A father’s dangerous mission to save his captured son isn’t what it seems 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z If San Francisco is white gloves and executive suites, Oakland sees itself as calloused hands and backs bent in honest labor. Kamala Harris celebrates Oakland, but the feeling isn’t necessarily mutual 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z A gesture of invitation, with his huge, red, calloused hand. “The Confession” 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z She draws her calloused thumb along my left cheek, nail grazing the freshly buzzed sideburns, skin still raw and inflamed. Love in a time of trash-eating mushrooms 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Experienced in January or not, the Chargers are convinced they’ve been calloused by overcoming foreboding deficits, worthy opponents and rabid noise to win seven of eight road games this season. Chargers hope to overcome lack of playoff experience against Ravens 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z “Each day is very difficult, but it’s better than home,” said Abdoulaye, emphasizing his point with a cracked and calloused finger. Stirring the Pot: Thousands Take a Shine to a Gold Mine in the Sahara 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z After all this, a field filled with bear hugs, faces buried in shoulders, calloused fingers pointing to the sky. Dodgers' stressful season needed extra innings, but they're back where they were supposed to be - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Ed Bledsoe cradled the stone in his calloused right palm, using his thumb to scrape away a layer of dust and ash. His family died in the Carr fire. He pretends they're just on vacation: 'It’s the only way I can stay alive' So many of us are deeply wounded by Trump’s immigration policies and what they reflect about our less welcoming, more calloused new national norm. Our outpouring of compassion will vanquish moral bankruptcy 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Hard, calloused fingers move up and down the neck, connecting chords and filling the park with music. In a small park named for the national anthem's author, a homeless musician provides the soundtrack 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z "I get asked the question, 'How do you continue to do this all day every day?' I recognize the possibility that you could get hard-edged, you could get calloused, doing what I do," he said. Crackdown on immigrants takes a toll on federal judge: 'I have presided over a process that destroys families' 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z I recognize the possibility that you could get hard-edged, you could get calloused, doing what I do,” he said. Crackdown on immigrants takes a toll on federal judge: 'I have presided over a process that destroys families' 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Gohmert continued: “When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any US city or state in ‘hostile’ control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.” Obama martial law scare was stoked by Russian bots, say ex-director of CIA 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z So many of us are deeply wounded by these policies and what they reflect about our less welcoming, more calloused new national norm. Our outpouring of compassion will vanquish moral bankruptcy 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z There are plenty of examples of experience changing the body, from calloused feet to bulging biceps. Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z They gobble up so many rotis — the flat-round bread loaves that are a household staple, each one shaped in her calloused hands — that she goes through several pounds of flour a day. In China and India, there are 70 million more men than women. Here are the consequences. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z “The company hates this man,” said the fisherman, Esteban Sánchez, a calloused index finger pointing at his own chest. ‘A Bomb on the Doorstep’: Venezuela Fishermen Fight an Oil Giant 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z And his outward lack of any emotion about his messy public breach with the president and the Mercer family struck some not as the calloused indifference of a political operative but as nihilistic. Steve Bannon Steps Down From Breitbart Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z “I stand up all day. I never sit, my back bothers me,” said Philip Calabro, his hands calloused and stained black with shoe polish. After 51 years, one of the last old-school cobblers in D.C. is closing shop 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z “You put up a curtain, but you don’t want to be calloused,” Kernke said. More funeral directors needed in Oklahoma 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Now he is 31, emotionally calloused after all he has been through. Meet Osama. To his players, he’s ‘Coach Oss.’ These days, should he be ‘Steve’? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Before the ceremony, the cardinal stopped by to shake Aleman’s calloused hand. ‘A wonder to behold’: Cardinal Wuerl blesses dome at Basilica of the National Shrine 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z His calloused hands attest to years of physical labor. More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone: What Fuels the Backlash on Trade 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z There’s an almost imperceptible moment in every boy’s journey to manhood in which he’s supposed to become calloused and hardened. What Getting Beat Up Taught Me About Being a Man 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The results were stark — laborers whose eyes, calloused skin and grape-stained fingers conveyed the toil of a life in the field. California Today: Fighting Fire With Fire 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Her skin was now chapped from the sun, her hands calloused, but her braided hair still hung to her waist. One woman’s fight to save her land from a pipeline that tore a region apart 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Sadly, when a number of culprits cloak themselves in innocence and the dishonorable claim to be disadvantaged, we become calloused to true sufferers of abused and misused power. SNYDER: Penn State’s constant denial of abuse claims reaches pathetic levels 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Paul folded his calloused fingers and stared at the ground. Easter attack in Pakistan shows how poor civilians remain the easiest targets 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z A parade of Carhartt coveralls and neon safety vests formed in the aisles for communion, the white wafers glinting between calloused hands. As Construction Deaths Rise, a Mass for Fallen Workers Grows 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Even in 2016, there isn't a better way to learn guitar than sinking hundreds of hours and a few calloused fingers into it. The Rhythm Guitar is a really complicated way to not learn guitar 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The days of the “industrial athlete,” a burly, broad-shouldered man with calloused fingers and grease-stained trousers, have long since passed. Is that a robot in the driver’s seat at Ford’s F-150 plant? 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The message is clear: the remake is too cool, too self-important to acknowledge fans, humor, cuteness, affection, or anything softer than a calloused, grimy fist. Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the limits of nostalgia 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z But his knuckles were hard and calloused, with “Tuff” tattooed across the top of his right hand and “Love” on the left. A Golden Gloves boxer got a golden opportunity from Sasha Bruce 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z "There is moisture 25 centimeters down but nothing beyond that. If we get below-average rains, it will be a disaster," he said, wiping the red dust from his calloused hands. African crops, economies at risk as El Nino threatens to scorch and soak 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z They are brown and black and white and calloused and scarred. A Photographer Puts Subway Riders’ Idle Hands to Work 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Driving his combine tractor, his thick, calloused hands wrapped over the vinyl steering wheel, Trampe described his fields in the way that only someone who has spent his entire life on the land can. Use It or Lose It Laws Worsen Western US Water Woes 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z “When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any U.S. city or state in 'hostile' control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.” Operation Jade Helm 15: Military training exercise or martial law? Ask the Internet 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z “When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any U.S. city or state in ‘hostile’ control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.” Conspiracy Theories Over Jade Helm Training Exercise Get Some Traction in Texas 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Not only are the points not factual, in many cases, they are often delivered in an uncaring, calloused manner as well. 5 Steps To Turn Bad Coaching Around 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It amounts to blaming the victim, and it creates a new normal, where politics is only for the tough and the crude and the calloused. Monica Lewinsky has something to say — and everybody should listen 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z His hands are nicked and calloused from years of construction labor. Group of volunteers lends helping hands on Outer Banks 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z On campus, in Hollywood and in the military, attitudes seem conflicted, calloused and confused - mirroring society itself. Florida editorial roundup 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z A thriving lumber town in the early 1900s that has since settled in as a small farming community, Monroe is best illustrated by pickups, overalls and calloused hands. Town’s tavern is part of Civil War football lore 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z We all basically think we’d be like Rick and company, maybe a lot more violent and calloused than we are now, but still generally good people. 'The Walking Dead' Season 5, Episode 5 Review: Confessions And 'Self Help' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Health-wise he was in a "horrific state" with a chest infection, a hernia and calloused feet, along with being very malnourished. 'Slavery' police search for more men 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The jury heard that his family struggled to recognise him when they tracked him down in a "horrific state" with a chest infection, a hernia and calloused feet. 'Slavery' man jailed for four years 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z At another shelter in Tapachula, run by the Roman Catholic Church, a group of men studied a map of Mexico and with their calloused fingers traced the train routes. Exploitation awaits migrant children on Mexico's southern edge 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Contemporary art today, much of it at least, is less effete than industrial, a battle of calloused hands and computers fighting the limits of resistant materials, in a mad search for beauty or provocation. The Saturday Profile: In Struggles of Artist With His Work, Hints of Mexico’s Own 2014-02-22T03:20:37Z So, yes, we are outraged by the Belgian Parliament’s decision, and I pray that we never become so calloused in this country as to allow our children to opt for death over their personal hardship. Belgium’s Euthanasia Law Doesn’t Protect Children From Themselves 2014-02-19T15:26:33Z “Activist investing requires a thick and calloused skin, and recent press coverage reinforces this point.” DealBook: Ackman Acknowledges ‘Mistakes’ in Letter to Investors 2013-08-21T14:55:04Z Justin Rose, of England, on his rise up the rankings: “This is just such a satisfying feeling, and it goes back 20, 30 years for me — of dreaming, of hoping, of practicing, of calloused hands.” Justin Rose took a long journey to become one of the world’s elite golfers 2013-06-22T21:10:00Z And it goes back 20, 30 years for me of dreaming, of hoping, of practicing, of calloused hands. Rose revels in validation of U.S. Open win 2013-06-17T03:32:56Z “For some of them, this is sort of the backup lunch counter,” said Mr. Milster, a lanky Queens native with red mutton chops and grimy jeans and calloused hands. City Room: In an Old Steam Plant, Providing a Home for the Many Cats of Pratt 2013-05-24T18:43:00Z A lot of times I wanted to win it and never did win it and now I've gotten calloused to winning it. Karl NBA Coach of Year for 1st time 2013-05-09T05:07:09Z But while Mr. López blends into that resilient population with his calloused hands and thrift-store wardrobe, his predicament goes far beyond his immigration status. U.S. and Mexico, Amid Drug War, Spurn an Informant 2013-04-29T00:57:57Z This is just such a satisfying feeling, and it goes back 20, 30 years for me — of dreaming, of hoping, of practicing, of calloused hands. Justin Rose took a long journey to become one of the world’s elite golfers 2013-06-22T21:10:00Z Delighted, Roger Federer turns his palms up to reveal a badly calloused right hand punished by 23 years of holding a racquet, showing the children the difference from the smoother left one. Federer plays big brother to village children 2013-02-20T19:57:18Z And when will President Obama make the call? Wars do not end on their own, or by the calloused hands of our military led by generals. Politicians start them and end them. America Folds 2013-01-16T09:45:00Z “That is going to be 18th or early 19th century,” Mr. Kiser said, turning the button over in his calloused hands. Construction Site Offers Fleeting Glimpse of the Civil War Past 2012-11-12T02:46:58Z His calloused finger traced the path of power lines which rise high above the village's cacti and bypass it completely on their way toward the settlement. West Bank hamlets share name, not fate 2012-06-27T07:58:04Z Whisky had been the origin of his fall from honest living, and he was not so calloused as not to feel the sting of remorse at times. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z The cushion is covered with a rough but yielding skin, which, though rough, is not calloused as the foot of a barefooted man comes to be. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z McClintock himself, on his return, was scarred by frost-bites, his fingers calloused by frequent freezings, and his body thin with scant food, which made him eat, Boothian fashion, "frozen blubber in delicate little slices." True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z He crooked it every way he could, he got everythin' we had; all th' work of my hands,"—holding their honest, calloused palms out—"all th' hopes of a good old man. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z The Devil's gospel of laissez-faire still inspires the calloused heart of man. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z He knew that there was no such word as arbitration in a sailor's vocabulary; his disputes could be settled only in one manner, by his calloused fists. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z But the soldier carelessly gathered heaping handfuls in his calloused palms, and went up the bare, creaking stairs again to his post among the pigeons. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z But for southerners living north of the border, like Mrs. Ley, whose stooped back and cracked, calloused hands tell their own story of suffering and toil, the south’s joyous independence compounded their misery. For South Sudan Woman, Misery on Both Sides of the Border 2012-02-20T01:37:17Z A bitter, divorced cop, calloused from witnessing hopelessness and despair on the Chicago streets. Chicago Police Learn Writing Beyond Reports 2012-02-07T14:43:03Z She felt almost gay, and, as she thought of the room which a rude, sullen-eyed boy had reared for her with his calloused hands, her eyes grew soft like the horizons. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Were there not others; less tired, more calloused? The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z And Sem�n saw that his body was soft and clean, his hands and feet not calloused, and his face gentle. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z During his professional experience, the “Judge” had been a witness to many painful scenes, and familiarity had calloused somewhat his sense of sympathy. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z My face is browned and my lungs are sound, And my hands they are big and calloused. Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z The German inserted his fingers and thumb and extracting some of the contents, displayed the sample in his pudgy, calloused palm. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z At the welcome call, each swain, an arm encircling his partner's waist gently but firmly, placed one calloused paw against the lady's back, just below the shoulder blades, while her palm sought his arm. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z They were more calloused for what they had undergone. Gutierrez took tough road to become star at Cal 2011-11-03T22:08:08Z Next to me, calloused and unfazed, a young rebel removes his sandals and washes his feet in the low waters of the river. Lens Blog: Pete Muller's Photos of Rebels in Blue Nile State 2011-10-31T09:00:53Z Four demonstrators died, a number that to the calloused veterans of this showdown was relatively small. Yemen Mosque Becomes E.R. for Protesters 2011-10-22T22:48:37Z If the taxpayers want to stop last meal requests and show a calloused heart — but I truly believe it’s going to be turned around and they’ll reinstate the last meal request. Asked and Answered: Brian Price: Former Inmate Shares Tricks of the Trade of a Death Row Chef 2011-10-18T15:29:20Z It was remorse, it had long been remorse, from which this calloused devil was suffering. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Ann said, and she sat down heavily in her chair and tightly locked her calloused hands in front of her. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z There is nothing I despise so much as the calloused selfishness of youth. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z He had been thinking her cowardly and calloused with worldly selfishness; here she was risking all—and not for him, Harry Sevier, whom she loved, but for an unknown convict! The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z So much of this work did Davy do during the two years that he was kept with these Indians that his back became sore, then calloused. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Quarrels were frequent now, and finally, after an exceptionally fierce one, in which two calloused, coarsened natures revealed themselves in all their hideousness, the precious pair parted. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z It must be a sadly calloused heart which fails to respond to these twilight sounds in an isle of the Caribbean Sea. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Material pleasures accentuate the desire to possess things, and in the strife for possession, hearts are broken, fortunes wasted, nerves shattered, and the finer sentiments calloused. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z Mr. Udom’s calloused fingers are swollen by years of farm work. In Rural Thailand, a Shift in the Social Contract 2011-06-30T11:56:42Z Her hands were red and rough—calloused as a laboring man’s and with blunted fingers and broken nails. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z How could they ease the blow for the mother was their thought, as her calloused fingers tore open the envelope? The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z It is a fact that people will soon become calloused and heedless of almost any familiar danger. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z He looked down at his calloused hands, the speckle of light and shade against the weathered skin, and thought of all the labors he had set them to. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z And Andr�, gazing so, bared his gray head, the slow tears coursing down his furrowed cheeks, and, folding on his breast his calloused hands, prayed low and fingered o'er his wellworn beads. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Me, a lady, with them han’s?” and she put forth both her calloused palms. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z What heart is so stolid, what appreciative spirit so calloused over with the hard crust of stoicism not to rise and shout before the wonder of its magnificence? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z I do not know that it would be a good thing for any public speaker ever to approach the emergent hour with entire assurance and utterly calloused nerves. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z Mason opened his somewhat calloused hands, and, looking at them, said, "Are you ashamed of dirtying yourselves to get your own living?" Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z No wonder his hands were so free from calloused places, for Frank now felt positive that Luther had never been a carpenter in all his life. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z Her brown-black eyes shone in her dark warm skin with an eager light, and her calloused little claws of hands reached and took hold of all realities. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z As he kissed her and held her thin hands in his calloused grasp he wondered at the lines and shadows in the features which had once been so smooth and free from care. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z His hands were no longer white, and their palms were covered with calloused spots instead of blisters. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z The soles of his feet had become so calloused that he could even run over the sharp stones around Gramps' gravel pit. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z At one period in its career it had been caught in a rabbit trap, for one of its forelegs was removed at the joint, and the calloused stump was hard as a bit of stone. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z And he holds up his hands: calloused and bruised: "Do these look like the hands of a doctor?" he smiles. Tahrir Warrior: How an Egyptian Doctor Joined the Battle 2011-02-03T23:45:00Z His nails were neglected, his hands as rough and calloused as a blacksmith's; he had not shaved for several days and his beard felt bristly and unclean. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z In his brown galabia, his hands calloused from work in the fields, he sat on the pavement in a mental state somewhere between euphoria and anxiety. Lively community takes shape behind Cairo barricades 2011-02-03T22:07:08Z She was used to insult from her lord, but not yet calloused. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z He was bronzed and hard, and his hands were rough and calloused. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z There was something so blue and drawn about the closed eyelids; already his hands were bent and calloused like a man’s. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z The impressionable mind would extrapolate that AP McCoy, 15 times champion jumps jockey, will not rest unless the BBC places in his calloused hands tonight the award for the outstanding athlete in British life. Inside the mind of Tony McCoy, a serial winner 2010-12-19T00:09:01Z His attitude to the sport he loved was calloused forever. On Soccer: Foul Brings Back Painful Memories of Maradona 2010-09-21T19:49:00Z But the phone in his calloused hand hints at how hundreds of millions of people in emerging markets—perhaps even billions—will one day log on. Mobile internet in emerging markets: The next billion geeks 2010-09-02T10:46:00Z “You have to get calloused a little bit, because if you go out there and just start hitting people, it’s going to be even more injuries,” Reese said. Sports of The Times: The High Price of the N.F.L.?s Preseason Games 2010-08-23T21:24:00Z Then Fawad puts a calloused hand on top of Jack’s head, and he stands there, yellow hair in his eyes, feeling the weight of the fisherman’s arm and his own weight in the sand. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z I looked at her, while my pipe bowl was hot in my calloused hand. The Idyl of Twin Fires The scorn and contempt upon his face would have withered a man less calloused. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager In his calloused palm it felt like the soft paw of a kitten. A Yankee from the West A Novel Tilly's hand was in his and she felt his calloused fingers twitch and remain tense while he waited for her to finish. The Cottage of Delight A Novel No one mentioned it, not one of those aristocratic sportsmen were calloused enough to jest about it, but we all felt it in the secret places of our souls. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Why, my hands are as calloused as yours,” she laughed, “and about as tanned.” The Idyl of Twin Fires This man’s hands, as he had seen by the campfire, were blistered and calloused! Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus And by the end of the summer his hands were badly calloused from pulling wires, but the Giants had the pennant. Pitching in a Pinch or, Baseball from the Inside He yearned to take it into his calloused grasp and fondle into it his assurances of compliance with her desires. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Life had whacked hard at Mr. Katzenstein, writ across his face in a thousand welts and wrinkles, bent his knees and fingers, and calloused his hands. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Thanks to golf and rowing, my hands were already calloused, or I don’t know what would have happened to them in those first days! The Idyl of Twin Fires He was now poised accurately on one foot, rubbing his calloused heel up and down his shin, while he drank in the particulars of the telegraph office. The Garden of Eden Think me calloused if you like, but that's mere common sense economy of effort. Ewing\\'s Lady Big paws, some bare and calloused, some in the gloves of space suits, reached out, grabbed. Asteroid of Fear Killing for pay, at the whim of a jealous or scorned woman, was too ugly even for his calloused morality. Shock Treatment But she went over and sat on the arm of the Morris chair beside him, and I saw his big, brown, calloused hand steal about her waist. The Idyl of Twin Fires His prisoner let out a single cry for help; then a calloused palm covered her lips. Warrior of the Dawn Startled by that cry that must have reached even those calloused, savage nerves, the ape-man leaped straight up in the air. Brood of the Dark Moon I had had plenty of water heated and there was a tremendous scrubbing of big calloused hands when some fellow "guessed he'd have a try at it." A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall He was too tired to make his reasoning plain; his tongue was thick, and Crowley's brain too calloused to grasp argument, therefore he squatted beside the muttering creature and wept impotently. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure And Big Bart Coogan was game to the core of his calloused heart! The Song of the Wolf It was then that she became aware of the hairy back beneath her and a great calloused hand clamped about her wrists. Warrior of the Dawn It was not, like those of his henchmen, a calloused hand. The Portal of Dreams He proudly raised his round head with its close-cropped hair and shaven cheeks, on which the chin-straps of his helmet had worn hard calloused lines. Sónnica He unclasped them, took one of them in his rough calloused palm. My Lady of the Chimney Corner He127 laid the badly torn ear carefully upon his knee and began to apply the salve with a gentle, if calloused, forefinger. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in Fordak rubbed one side of his bull neck with a calloused palm. Warrior of the Dawn Even to his calloused mind the dangers involved in the exploit were considerable. The House from Nowhere Rome is sturdy, she is stronger than our republic of merchants corroded by avarice and pleasure; her hands are calloused by the plow handle and the lance—then against Rome am I headed! Sónnica “Do tell me what troubles you,” urged Wyn, patting her firm, calloused hand. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club But terror calloused, and they knew no hurts. The Plow-Woman Not loafers, idlers, or drunkards, but men with calloused hands and bent backs. Violence and the Labor Movement Then caution prompted him to extend a calloused and work-warped hand. The Bandbox He picks a wildflower nudging its face through calloused stone and watches the juice break onto forward skin. The Land of Look Behind "Shake hands first, please, young sir," said the other, who appeared to be a decent working man, for his palms were calloused with toil. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida For only a loving understanding of your neighbors’ lives will soften your calloused hearts. In the Heart of a Fool When she had paid Hammer she had sixty cents left in her calloused palm. The Bondboy Then, piteously outstretching calloused hands, He sank upon his knees, his huge gnarled knees, And echoed, falteringly, with slow harsh tongue,— Perchance, perchance, the Maker of you all. Collected Poems Volume One But now his hands were rope calloused, and his wits height proof. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story I'm beginning to get calloused around my elbows and knees. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida "Your name's familiar to me, Mr. Creighton," said Andrews, and stretched forth a long, bony arm with a calloused hand at the end of it. The Monk of Hambleton His hand, broad and strong, was hardened by the tennis-racket and calloused by the golf-stick, and somehow its leathery clasp pleased the girl. Money Magic A Novel And behind those great, calloused hands stretched thick arms, with the strength of an ox. Carmen Ariza The full cups overflowed, and as we took each brown calloused hand in ours, and felt the warm tears dropping over them, we realized how far from calloused were the hearts behind them. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work The flesh which is thus left bare is daily rubbed with rum until it becomes hardened and calloused. Due South or Cuba Past and Present He must be indeed calloused who can withstand, unmoved, the battery of their witching eyes. Aztec Land I was used to the 123 wretched puzzle––calloused and uncaring, since through all my life I still loved the man who fostered me, and held him in esteem. The Cruise of the Shining Light They grow metallic, yellow, calloused, unchanging, and soulless, like the coins they heap up. Carmen Ariza Sam turned his foot over, looked critically at the calloused sole of it, turned it back again and blew a mouthful of smoke. Rim o' the World The Rector's ruddy face had turned pale as death, and he kept biting nervously at his fingers, those blunt, bony, calloused fingers of a fisherman. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore He had been terribly hardened in some ways, so calloused that it sometimes seemed to him he had not the actual nerve surface for feeling anything. The Prisoner My hand was taken, spread down upon the calloused palm of Tom Bull, in disregard of my frown, and for a long time the man stared in puzzled silence at what there he saw. The Cruise of the Shining Light There were others who knew that his calloused hand was closing about them, and that when it opened again they would fall to the ground, dry as dust. Carmen Ariza He knelt down and took the dog's head tenderly in his rough, calloused hands and examined his eyes. The Shining Cow And the Rector passed a calloused hand over his sister's cold cheek. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore "You win," he grinned, running calloused fingers through his greying crew-cut. Cogito, Ergo Sum Even her hands, reddened and calloused by labor, were well kept and shapely. They of the High Trails But the gift had been denied; and her heart had shrunk and grown heavily calloused. Carmen Ariza The stranger studied the younger man from the corner of his eyes, pressing down the live coals in his pipe with a calloused forefinger. The Web of the Golden Spider The two women glared at him, but he was studying his huge hands, first the backs and then the calloused palms. The River Prophet Sandy picked up a gnarled hand, scarred, calloused and shrunken, the hand of an old prospector. Rimrock Trail He showed palms calloused, split, swollen lumps of chilblained flesh worn down and stiffened. A Man to His Mate We were dirty, ragged, and lame, and our hands were calloused and seamed with dirt, but we were strong and hearty. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Yes, his eyes were all right; he saw his calloused, big-jointed hand––the hand which had labored so long for a millionth part of what he now saw here. The Web of the Golden Spider Like most of the sailors of that day, he had gone barefoot aboard ship since the beginning of the warm weather and his soles were so calloused that he hardly felt the need of shoes. The Black Buccaneer The calloused, dirt-encrusted fingers deftly snapped open the circuits, dialed a number. Deathworld It was a tender heart, not yet calloused by constant pursuit of selfish aims. The End of the Rainbow Her hands were calloused and discoloured and her back was bent with hard work, but her eyes were bright, and her heart was still as young as her family. In Orchard Glen One seemed also to read a spirit of discontent or of calloused resignation in some of the better female countenances. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Roberts held up his great hands, calloused heavily over the palms. The Dominant Dollar Those are work horses, but field horses always have harness marks on them where the hair gets rubbed off or the skin gets calloused. Eight Keys to Eden He, Smith, was rocking in the blue plush chair for which the fool with the calloused hands had done extra work that he might give it to the woman upon her birthday. 'Me--Smith' His fingers were calloused and no current could pass through them. Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine Their hands were hardened by toil, and their fingers calloused by work in the trenches. Through St. Dunstan's to Light Two hard and calloused hand would meet in a crack like that from a small gun and two bearded faces, seamed and wrinkled, would light up with pleasure. The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders “I’d better ’a’ taken your advice an’ gone t’ th’ high school,” he said, extending his calloused hand to shake. The Wind Before the Dawn They were large, broad; the knuckles heavy; the palms calloused by something rougher than oar and tennis-racket. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life He had kept close track of all that had occurred, and the facts he revealed, calloused as I was to the thought of Addicks' baseness, horrified me by their cold-blooded villany. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated “They’re brown, of course, and calloused—a little—but they are not big, and they are beautifully modeled.” The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range They could hear the calloused little bare feet scraping the bark. Frank of Freedom Hill The peroration was uttered as an audible soliloquy, and it caused the listener to pull her hand from the calloused palm where it had been clinging. The Opened Shutters I mean by that, it was soft and well kept—not hard and calloused. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub In Thailand, one finds both the calloused and the silky types but in Laos even some of the higher government officials are workers in their secondary vocations. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Unconsciously to himself, he had grown to be a very hard man, and the heart within him found it difficult to make itself felt through the calloused surface of his life. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Miss Vivi sat up and carefully pillowed the squat calloused hand in her soft one. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World But the face was worn and the hand that she offered him was calloused. Hunters Out of Space His fingers, bent and calloused with rope-pulling, trembled as he fingered the seam of his trousers. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 A creepy feeling traveled up and down his spine at the thought of it, and he shook to his calloused heels. The Rich Little Poor Boy He looked down at his sweating, lacerated body; his blistered calloused palms; the black broken nails; the cheap workshoes with hemp laces; the shapeless gray cotton trousers, now wet to the knees. Faithfully Yours Professor Smith: If they had calloused in cold storage was it because they had been too warm? Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 She was brown as a berry and just the type of hard-working woman to make a good homesteader, with calloused, capable, tireless hands. Land of the Burnt Thigh Jacovik turned his hands over and looked at the calloused palms. The Destroyers Next, to make certain that he was not mistaken, he pinned the picture with a calloused forefinger. The Rich Little Poor Boy He looked at the hands; they were rough, calloused with toil, the knuckles spread, the nails broken and worn. Flamsted quarries Madame sought to deceive herself by making her person unsightly to her lord, and so she wore coarse and ragged dresses, calloused her hands, and allowed the sun to tan and freckle her face. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers If, however, the fetlock has become calloused from long-continued bruising, a Spanish-fly blister over the parts, repeated in two or three weeks if necessary, will aid in reducing the leg to its natural condition. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Here, those who have calloused hands and working-clothes are disdained; there, it is all who do not wear blue jeans. The Simple Life And a moment later, the boy was looking at the outer knob, now in the clutch of several great, grimy, calloused fingers. The Rich Little Poor Boy Perhaps he 's calloused," said the Deacon, "by what the paper said the other night about his buying a parcel of clothes hooked out of some man's entry. Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" Diana marched up and down in front of him, smacking her left fist into her calloused little right palm. Pagan Passions Men went up past Sunkhaze settlement into the great region of snow and silence, and men came down—bearded men, with hands calloused by the ax and the cross-cut saw. The Rainy Day Railroad War I am hard and cruel and calloused to the bone; yet were I not thus, in the name of the high gods, what should I be? Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The hands lying on her lap were red and calloused with housework and the child's whole appearance indicated neglect, from the broken-down shoes to the soiled and tattered dress. Mary Louise in the Country She held up her hands, so cruelly lined and calloused: "That's my picture; they look like me." The Second Chance Too well I knew I was becoming calloused to the evils around me. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Neither combatant said a word, the rasp of their calloused feet on the sand the only sound. Planet of the Damned The music rose to him like a breath from that scarcely vanished past, playing upon him,—calloused body and sensitive tortured soul,—conjuring forth visions of dead golden hours, weaving its own poignant spell. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Could they be any more prevalent than they are now,—bearable only because we are calloused to them? Monopolies and the People It was evident that his long connection with the circus had calloused the sensibility of his perceptive faculties. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Her form was bent, her hands were calloused, she was prematurely old, and much of this deterioration was caused by all sorts of drudgery to help her boy to pay his college expenses. Pushing to the Front But then, Andy had known many a time in his past when he did not own a pair of shoes, and his soles were calloused to the point where small stones made no impression. The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain He had noticed that Joe's hands were rather rough and calloused. Torchy As A Pa His tanned face and his calloused hands, together with some sea phrases which he dropped from time to time, made his tale seem probable enough. Ten Tales He was caused to lie on his stomach and, with Cousin Charley holding his broad, calloused palm against his chest, "Al-f-u-r-d" was given his first lesson in swimming. Watch Yourself Go By Their color and deftness stood out in vivid contrast to the heavy, brown, cracked, and calloused pawlike hands of the men. Wayside Courtships Material pleasures accentuate the desire to possess things, and in the strife for possession hearts are broken, fortunes wasted, nerves shattered and finer sentiments calloused. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep He opened the blade and drew it speculatively across his calloused old thumb, while with his mild blue eyes, which his spectacles enormously exaggerated, he fixed the humbled Willie. The Calico Cat He measured about ten inches more around the chest than the year before, and his hands were red and calloused from hard work. The Literary World Seventh Reader Long hair, whiskers, grimy, calloused hands, and all the rest of it. North of Fifty-Three Our brawny fists are calloused, and we're mostly holes and hair, But if grit were golden bullion we'd have coin to spend and spare! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) The doctors become calloused; they are used to seeing pain and suffering. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep In explanation the man in the door held up a quarter between a calloused forefinger and thumb. The She Boss A Western Story His calloused sensibilities had long ago lost their capability of appreciating a nature such as hers. The Substitute Prisoner He knocked out the ashes of his pipe, refilled the bowl, stuffing the black Settlement tobacco down with a calloused, soil-grimed forefinger. Wolf Breed Hers were knotted and work calloused and a little uncertain. Benefits Forgot A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love Yellow Barbee gave a signal all unneeded to his men; his own rifle in his eager hands, was ready, the trigger yielding to his calloused forefinger. Man to Man "M'm-m!" he mumbled, reading slowly, a great calloused forefinger following the lines. The She Boss A Western Story Gradually the detective's eyes cleared with belief and his calloused nature yielded to an impulse of pity. The Substitute Prisoner As much as she loved the round-up, many times as she had seen it, Billie Warren had never become calloused to the brutalities perpetrated on the calves. The Settling of the Sage Year by year, however, as custom calloused him to the only part in life he seemed fit to play, he forgot about the waste of time in the Interborough cars. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Now his great, calloused, soiled, hairy hands shut down upon her, gripping her shoulders, jerking her from her place into the crevice from which his face had emerged. Man to Man But I knew that I was the only one with whom the pain and sting would live; the men were so calloused by such happenings that they no longer made a lasting impression. S.O.S. Stand to! His hands grew calloused and the muscles of his back and shoulders grew tough with swinging an axe, lugging and lifting heavy poles. The Hidden Places The palms were hard and calloused, with bits of loose skin along the base of the fingers where blisters had formed and broken and healed over. Under Handicap A Novel After a few years' work, the skin becomes calloused and tough. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine Barbee held the bank-note in his left hand; slowly his calloused fingers closed tightly about it, crumpling it, clutching it as though they would never release it. Man to Man The fingers were long and the knuckles were slightly enlarged with strenuous pullings of needles and handling of scissors; the forefinger was calloused. The Debtor A Novel His calloused hands yet gripped the haft of an axe, just as he had died—fighting. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War Owing to the difficulty of digging the hole, it is likely to be a tight fit for the pot-bound ball of calloused roots that is to fill it. The Garden, You, and I Deep lines of care and suffering marred her face and labour had calloused her hands. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine But for a little the old man was silent, running his calloused fingers nervously through his beard, frowning into the dusk thickening over the world outside. Man to Man Noting her calloused hands and the too rapid approach of life's midsummer, Selwyn watched her, and wondered what recompense could be offered for those things. The Parts Men Play "Just corns" are calloused spots with hard center; pressure on this causes pain. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Without even pausing to think it over Rajah bent his calloused knees, and gratefully Kathlyn crawled back into the howdah. The Adventures of Kathlyn This incident illustrates the seared, calloused, surfeited condition of the average mind in the churches. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine His feet were too painfully aware of the road beneath them, and his hands too calloused from the Herculean labors of survival. The Mantooth Rupert grew with the growth of his labors, until he was now a tall, muscular fellow, browned and calloused. Added Upon A Story All his farming had been done with calloused hands on the plowshare. Destiny Countless young men have been needlessly discouraged by the indifference of the occupied and the sneers of the calloused. The Young Man and the World Look at my hands, all calloused from work. The Iron Furrow No woman's hands could have been tenderer than the calloused ones of this frontiersman. The Sheriff's Son The small oiler slipped the coiled mesh through his calloused hands. Plague Ship It was a hopeless, beaten face, and for the first time in his life Ham saw the calloused hand which crept out to his own shake feebly. Destiny He felt of it with his calloused hands, and finally gestured to Pete. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River He waved a dirt grimed, calloused hand awkwardly. The Lookout Man Does he suppose that a man can live thirty-five years in this state of probation, without becoming slightly calloused to a pun on his own name? Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature The Kid, being young, had something of youth's impatience, perhaps the only reminiscence of youth left in a calloused soul. The Bells of San Juan Those of the crew were calloused almost like bone, but even to them it was hard work, for the sweat rolled down their faces, as they struggled along the planks bent double. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 In the sole of his right forepaw was an ivory-handled bowie-knife, firmly imbedded and partly surrounded by calloused gristle as hard as bone. Bears I Have Met—and Others I am an odd old woman, hard to be moved, but I am not quite calloused yet. Bessie's Fortune A Novel There are more merchants today, surer deliveries, and wider well-being, but are there not, also, bigger thieves, deeper injustice, and more calloused selfishness in well-being? Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Tall, lean-bodied, with big calloused hands, as brown as an Indian, hair and eyes were uncompromisingly black. The Bells of San Juan They at first blister the fingers until they are calloused. Memories and Anecdotes Mr. Welles opened his eyes and took the little boy's rough, calloused hand in his. The Brimming Cup She saw that it was calloused, the hand of a man who toiled. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy What must then be the feelings of a mind, susceptible of impression by nature, but weakly calloused over by art? An History of Birmingham (1783) For the raw brains were not yet quite calloused; they quivered from the successive benumbing shocks of the day. The Last Shot Robert Urwick, the author, was not yet so calloused by success that he was immune from flattery. Mince Pie "Nobody home at The Dreamerie—" He took her face in his calloused hands, drew her to him. Kindred of the Dust Martha was there with the baby against her breast, and Jed was there, his arm tightly about his wife, and one of the baby's hands lying on his calloused palm.... Scattergood Baines During the deathly weariness of that night I saw past the calloused hide of that woman and sighted the splendid courage cached away beneath her bitter oratory and hosstyle syllogisms. Pardners It is impossible for the average modern mind, calloused by promiscuous reading, to conceive the effect upon her primitive organism of this attack from the printed page. Hillsboro People Shucks! boy, a man is a narrow, calloused creature until he has been shook up a few times by love affairs. A Texas Matchmaker They were immaculately clean and the nails were well tended, but two years of pick and shovel had broadened them, and at the base of each finger a calloused spot still remained. The Lilac Girl And the little chubby fingers lost Their childish softness and grace, And toughened and chapped and calloused, And the rosy, childish face. Quiet Talks with World Winners Yes, he had a persuadin' method of arbitration quite convincing to the most calloused, involving the layin' on of the lead pipe. Pardners He had that rare sympathy which is the inestimable gift of the physician, and long years of practice had not yet calloused him so that a suffering fellow-mortal was merely a "case". A Spinner in the Sun They played with the doubloons like children, jingling them in their calloused palms, guessing at weight and value, calculating their equivalent in the joy of living. Spanish Doubloons Craig drew an ember from the edge of the fire with calloused fingers, held it to his bowl and passed it on to Wade. The Lilac Girl They were shapely enough hands, even if red and calloused. The Purple Heights San Francisco, which had suspected Ruef and his Supervisors with the easy tolerance of a people calloused to betrayal, was aroused by the insolent audacity of these transactions. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts French brandy and English rum sapped his stamina, and the grand libertinage of the traders calloused whatever moral sense he had. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 Perhaps it is the doctors who hear that tone oftenest—little wonder that they are men so often with sad or with calloused faces. The Mettle of the Pasture And by means of this combination of word and music they imagine they can affect and impress a calloused mind. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The match burned out against the calloused tips of his fingers. The Night Horseman It was only the blind worship and the loyalty of a peon whose feet were bare, whose hands were calloused with labor, whose face was seamed with the harshness of his serfdom. The Gringos She put her calloused hand against her lips and stood listening with agonized intentness. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The rude gymnastic exercise of the marches, with the management of the shovel, had broadened their wrists and calloused their hands. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Great Taylor sank into a broken armchair, her huge calloused hands rested in her lap, wrists crossed, palms turned upward, fingers stiffly curled. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Their hands were "blistered and puffed, their feet swollen, calloused, and sore." The Trade Union Woman His hands were strong and red and not too clean, with several broken nails and calloused places. Through the Wall Long ago she had revised those first superficial estimates of them as gross, hulking brutes who worked hard and drank harder, coarsened and calloused by their occupation. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Inherent in him was a calloused familiarity with violent death. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar What the Swede found there roused no pity within his calloused heart, only anger against his fellow scoundrel. Son of Tarzan Were they merely kept in temporary abeyance, or even only calloused, it would not be a matter of so much moment. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Her distress was so evident that even this calloused man felt a thrill of pity and stepped forward to assist her. Through the Wall She who had suffered so much was at last beyond reach of the keenest of misery's pangs, for her senses were numbed and calloused. Beasts of Tarzan Beneath their rough exteriors, despite their calloused and criminal natures, there exists in each a well-defined strain of romantic emotionalism—you will find it among such as these throughout the world. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar But let a tiger gaze fixedly at you from ambush, and unless your primitive instincts are completely calloused you will presently commence to glance furtively about and be filled with vague, unreasoning terror. Pellucidar Demetrio's calloused hands shuffled through the brilliant coins, counting and counting. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Men with calloused hands and attired in garments that showed the wear of an endless trudge for a living, smoked their pipes contentedly and spent five, ten, or perhaps fifteen cents for beer. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets As the two crossed toward Gust's tent the Maori felt the edge of his long knife with one grimy, calloused thumb. Beasts of Tarzan They were found greatly flattened and calloused at the ends. Fantastic Fables Just then Bridge burst forth into poetry: In a flannel shirt from earth's clean dirt, Here, pal, is my calloused hand! The Mucker Her neck was thick, strong, and very white, her hands roughened and calloused. Moran of the Lady Letty Eyes gleamed with sudden fire, and calloused hands waved frantically in the air. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets To-day you would scarce recognise us, Such veterans war-wise are we; So grimy and hard, so calloused and scarred, So "crummy", yet gay as can be. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man He sighed, and laid his calloused fist on the table. O Pioneers! "In flannel shirt from earth's clean dirt, here, pal, is my calloused hand!" he quoted, laughing. The Mucker When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her. Uncle Tom's Cabin He prodded Tantor with a calloused toe and the big beast swung off across the clearing, the apes watching them until they were swallowed up by the jungle. Jungle Tales of Tarzan I'll tell you, Dozier," said the other, lighting his pipe and then tamping the red-hot coals with his calloused forefinger, "I'm kind of particular about the way people cusses around Jud. Way of the Lawless Then he leaned over and patted her hand—the hand that was scarcely less rough and scarred than his own—with his big calloused one. The Old Gray Homestead But already my adversary was at me again, and with his two calloused hands he once more was gripping my throat. The Mutineers It was a rebuking cry, but it failed to touch the calloused heart of the being before her. Five Thousand Dollars Reward He swelled his giant chest, beat upon it with his calloused knuckles and swaggered to and fro before her. Jungle Tales of Tarzan As I looked at that little sum in my calloused hand, I said, 'Dollie, it's the first honest money you ever earned; doesn't it make you feel good?' Fifteen Years with the Outcast Me," he said to himself, "a hard old man calloused by years of professional contact with mankind and consequent knowledge of their general cussedness! The Calling of Dan Matthews But I told Josiah that women had walked daily over the burning plow shares of duty and domestic tribulation, till their feet had got calloused, and could stand more'n you'd think for. Samantha on the Woman Question He accepted gingerly the calloused paw which the old Slovak held out to him, but he could not keep the look of irritation from his face. King Coal : a Novel He was moving south along a game trail, his calloused soles and knuckles giving forth no sound, when he came upon Dango at the opposite side of a small clearing. Jungle Tales of Tarzan On bended knee before the master I gave my own unexpressed love and thanks, touching his feet, calloused by time and service, and receiving his blessing. Autobiography of a Yogi The scythe, the hand rake, the pitchfork in the calloused hands of men and boys did the work, occasionally the women even taking a turn with the rake or in mowing away. My Boyhood The wives of such men grow calloused or quit them. We Can't Have Everything "It was for you that I calloused my hands!" Over the Pass He stroked her head with his calloused, sunburned hand and his eyes filmed with a distant gaze. The Untamed Yon will notice, however, that the caps of her hocks are so swollen and calloused by the action of the swingle-tree as to make them permanently disfigured. The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put Your words are as balm to my calloused heart; yet listen to me, and judge if my cruel fate would not engender a dark distrust in a purer heart than mine. Natalie A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds She placed her own hand alongside, all work-worn and calloused, and wept. Children of the Frost Mary, Mary, I calloused my hands for you! Over the Pass In country spaces men develop sensitive surfaces, not calloused by too frequent contact, accepting the new impression vividly and keeping it bright to think upon. Adventures in Contentment So even the dullest of minds and the most calloused realize that it pays to do what is right—the lesson being pressed home upon them in a way it has never been before. Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others There was always laughter, no matter what he did or said, but he never grew calloused against it. Bull Hunter But the heart that is steeled against sorrow is in all probability so calloused that it can not experience joy. How to Live a Holy Life It is sad to see such calloused inhumanity in one so young. Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College She gave three to her husband and three to Billy, and for a moment the men stared at them as they lay in their rough and calloused palms. Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail He marched her up the slope, his calloused hands holding tightly onto her as he marched Si'Wren up the grassy slope to the top of the rise. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Then large, calloused hands almost Roman, came and took her from the lair, and tied her to a tree. Highland Ballad Joy bubbled from that calloused heart of his in striking contrast to the gloom of his companions. The Cruise of the Kawa When the elder man shook his head impatiently Gray went on, "I'm pretty worldly and calloused, but if one virtue has been spared me, it is charity." Flowing Gold Every face in the room was tense and expectant; even the calloused attendants felt the hush and lowered their voices in deference. The Net But when the other man had actually married the girl and carried her away, he had a sick spell to pay for it—he wasn't quite so calloused in heart as he had believed. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists As he straightened up on the inner side, Blake caught and gripped his hand in a big calloused palm. Out of the Primitive He reached over and placed a brown calloused finger on the push button, and waited. The Long Chance He looked into Droom's eyes, hoping it might be a joke of the calloused old clerk. Jane Cable I am a very good liar, an adept, as you shall see, for I am not calloused by practice and therefore liable to forgetfulness. The Net Perhaps she really fancied she was being hard and unsympathetic and calloused. Youth Challenges "I'm sure I'm—pleased to meet you, Mr. Blake," murmured Ashton, his voice breaking slightly as Blake grasped his gloved hand in the bare calloused palm. Out of the Primitive And he laid his great calloused, hairy hand over his heart. The Valley of the Giants Bansemer's heart was too roughly calloused to be touched by the wistful longing in these words. Jane Cable His hands were red, swollen and calloused as if by years of rowing. Seven Icelandic Short Stories It was such an impulse as might, in its turn, breed children capable of causing a calloused world to pause an instant on its way and gasp with horror. Youth Challenges |
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