| 单词 | hard-bitten |
| 例句 | Poor darling Briony, the softest little thing, doing her all to entertain her hard-bitten wiry cousins with the play she had written from her heart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Later there came a request from the young couple, a request written and subscribed to by a hard-bitten bachelor, Ross Milton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Cheevers, the first mate—slim, hard-bitten—looked capable enough, but bad-tempered. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer made clear this was far from the truth, and that underneath the fondness he felt for many things Cuban, at his essence he was “a hard-bitten, clinic-building, MDR-treating mother.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was a strange opposition: the hard-bitten private-eye expression on the face of a girl wearing a uniform for private school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The guards, some of whom had previously identified themselves as pacifists, fell quickly into the role of hard-bitten disciplinarians. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was leaving my building at Northgate Hall at the university with one of my colleagues, who is this kind of hard-bitten, investigative journalist, the kind who snarls when he talks. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z Her careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates “Long Bright River” from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love. Looking for a Book to Read With Friends? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z He plays a hard-bitten 90-year-old atheist in the movie, which also stars Mr. Lynch. Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The volunteers as a group, including the English teacher with the nimbus of granny-white hair, could be hard-bitten and grim as the clients. Paul Ryan’s poverty tourism 2012-10-16T17:05:00Z “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman,” about conservationists in the Americans heartland, starts with a hard-bitten Montanan working to prevent development, to the outrage of some locals. At Sundance, the Theme Is Climate Change 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Life-or-death suspense is built into the existence of its young characters, and even the hard-bitten Danish soldier who oversees them develops sympathy. A Quick Guide to the Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z His co-star, and the entire reason for watching the show, is an actor who knows from hard-bitten cynics: Christopher Meloni, who for 12 seasons played TV’s angriest cop, Elliot Stabler, on “Law & Order: SVU.” Review: ‘Happy!,’ or, Law & Order: Imaginary Friend 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Like Susan Sontag’s “On Photography,” to which it self-consciously responds, “The Social Photo” is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Gradually, accents are nudged by dissonant chords, and the music morphs into a hard-bitten dance. Review: ‘Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton,’ Macabre Yet Sweet 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z More like a street theologian, in fact, quietly dispensing wisdom laced with nuggets from all of humanity’s book learning and from his own hard-bitten experience. Sixto Rodriguez, Secret Rock Star Behind Searching for Sugar Man 2012-08-21T12:00:30Z Vocally, she is somewhat two-dimensional, with bright and airy high notes and a dusky, hard-bitten lower range that she wields like a weapon. Santa Fe Opera Stages ‘Carmen’ 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Mann does convey a worldview in his scripts—a hard-bitten ethos of deep plotting in solitude, of chess-like strategizing in monastic, self-sacrificing isolation. The Stylish, Empty Realism of Michael Mann 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The hard-bitten figures in his photographs are similarly attracted — metaphorically to a promise of grace, literally to radiance — in a quest that ends in self-defeat. For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z And Prince’s rockers featured guitar solos as expressive as his voice, whether he was playing hard-bitten, bluesy jabs or anthemic long lines. Music Review: True Guitar Hero, With More Love and Less Leer 2010-12-16T22:00:26Z The other belongs to the man’s hard-bitten ex, a saleswoman at Saks resentfully catering to the spoiled matrons who used to be her peers. Dangers Close to Home: Four New Domestic Thrillers 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Many of the characters are hard-bitten, working-class women fleeing domestic nightmares — and whose lives end tragically. Music Review: Norbert Leo Butz Sings in ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ 2013-06-23T20:04:16Z He is a hard-bitten Miami cop who becomes chief constable of the fictional East Lincolnshire police to stem a tide of violent crimes. Rob Lowe, bobby on the beat? The US A-listers who ended up on British TV 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z When a lefty boxing champ known for his brutal but effective style suffers a personal tragedy, he teams with a hard-bitten former pugilist to fight his way back to redemption. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The result can feel overly deliberate, but the script’s offhand moments are its most successful, as when a hard-bitten diner waitress asks Bridges, “What don’t you want?” Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z He also found success playing his hard-bitten screen image for laughs, in such comedic roles as an insecure mob boss in “Analyze This” and a retired CIA operative in “Meet the Fockers.” De Niro takes shot at Trump as he accepts SAG lifetime award 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z At a recent conference I attended, the author of "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" brought several hard-bitten journalists to tears. What our writers love this week 2011-09-28T23:43:08Z I wrote at the time that seeing the real-life, hard-bitten characters portrayed by fresh-faced, aspiring artists lent grave poignancy to the drama. What ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Could Have Accomplished 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z What better time than now for a juxtaposition of high culture and hard-bitten poverty? This week's new film events 2011-01-01T00:05:37Z Even the hard-bitten police lieutenant in charge of the fictionalized case is shaken by the singular brutality of the unknown killer. Buried by Snow or Stuffed in a Suitcase: The Bodies Add Up in Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The attitude of these songs, even the one titled “Blue Was Angry,” isn’t bitter or hard-bitten. Music Review: Allan Harris Performs at the Metropolitan Room 2010-04-06T22:27:00Z Stanfield, an actor whose strength is in his reserve, modulates deftly between the idealistic young samurai and the hard-bitten elder. Review: ‘Yasuke’ Reclaims a Black Samurai From History 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Hat is meant to be amusing in his goofy uncouthness; Orange the hard-bitten but soft-hearted maternal type, the salt of the peaty earth. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z It features the eponymous anchor — playing the role of dogged, hard-bitten, widely respected and unbiased newsman — and Pamela Geller, the professional bigot I’m supposed to refer to as an “anti-Islam activist,” instead. “It’s making us feel like the opposition is evil”: How cable news hurts democracy — and how to fix it 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z When Renée finally warms up, her sudden glow of well-being recalls the scene from “Babette’s Feast” in which the hard-bitten residents of a village savor gourmet food for the first time. | 'The Hedgehog': Behind the Prickliness Lies a Generous Heart 2011-08-18T23:17:46Z “You’re just a silly boy,” sneers Lars’s mean, hard-bitten mother, when he admits his participation in a beating at a refugee center after the incident is reported in the newspaper. | 'Brotherhood': Gay-Bashing Neo-Nazis Struggle With Homosexuality 2010-08-05T23:09:00Z But CK's inner cynic doesn't necessarily win the argument, for behind the malignity there persists a hard-bitten, but utterly likable, joie de vivre. Louis CK – review 2013-03-21T13:39:14Z Is some of what happens a shade too precious for the more hard-bitten New Yorker? Review: ‘Behind the City’ Immerses You in New York and Yourself 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “I got a job to do/ I’m workin’ here,” the showgirls sing, displaying hard-bitten professional pragmatism. Review | The drag queens carry the show in a methodical ‘Dorian’s Closet’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z She won featured roles in much-admired crime dramas of the late 1940s and 1950s, notably “Kiss of Death,” “Nightmare Alley” and “The Killing” — but not, to her regret, as a femme fatale or hard-bitten dame. Coleen Gray, doe-eyed beauty of film noir, dies at 92 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Alcatraz, the forlorn island in San Francisco Bay, is known for the hard-bitten men whose names are among the legends of the Rock. On Alcatraz, the island’s prison gardens are in full flower 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In his relatively short on-screen time, Willis, playing a hard-bitten bounty hunter shooting his way through Maui, appears relatively alert and aware. ‘Paradise City’ Review: John Travolta and Bruce Willis Reunite 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z That was the jarring transition from “E Street Shuffle,” a euphoric old staple, to “Jack of All Trades,” a sour, hard-bitten newish ballad. Music Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Izod Center 2012-04-04T10:27:12Z Making “a conscious effort to redirect,” she took a small role as the hard-bitten Juniper in the lauded 2013 Southern gothic indie “Mud.” Reese Witherspoon Goes Against Type in ‘Wild’ 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Glen David Andrews paints his testimony in a range of emotional colors — from the broken humility of a supplicant to the hard-bitten pride of a survivor — on his tough-sounding new release, “Redemption.” New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z He really is playing a 50-year-old, hard-bitten guy, and I buy it. Clint and Ron Howard Remember When They Were Just ‘The Boys’ 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z So was she: an anti-academic, chattily entertaining prose that read as both hard-bitten and strangely needy. ‘What She Said’ Review: Pauline Kael, Screen Queen 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z And although we journalists try to portray ourselves as cynical sometimes, or hard-bitten, we can also be idealistic, even naive. The media didn’t want to believe Trump could win. So they looked the other way. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Two decades after a terrible plague destroys modern civilization, a hard-bitten black marketeer ends up in league with a 14-year-old girl as they try to rescue some life for themselves in a ruined America. Critic’s Notebook: Nintendo’s Wii U Is the Talk of the E3 Computer Game Expo 2012-06-10T21:22:17Z Some distributors turned up their noses at this hard-bitten drama, saying it was too long. Having a Sundance Hit May Not Make You Rich Anymore 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Fadzai’s brother, Gilbert, is a charismatic intellectual from the countryside hoping to wheel and deal his way through the big city, placing more stock in philosophy than in the hard-bitten lessons of his country’s history. An errant gun threatens many lives in ‘The Death of Rex Nhongo’ 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z As the raw passions of its hard-bitten characters seep into you, the songs hammer them even more deeply into your consciousness. | 'Small Town Murder Songs': Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting 2011-06-30T22:03:06Z Usually, after a little coaxing, even Delhi’s hard-bitten inhabitants melt. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z But Yocum constructs a madcap yarn around this epicenter of economic depression, shifting narrators across a handful of quirky, hard-bitten residents. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Nirvana's second album, "Nevermind," took the band to stardom and wealth far beyond the city limits of hometown Aberdeen, a hard-bitten timber town of vacant lots and too much rain. Spirit of Nirvana lives on 2011-09-20T16:33:25Z The gallery of hard-bitten personages and the mix of funny and sentimental subplots put you in mind at times of a novel by Dickens. Perspective | On Broadway, ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ and ‘Lackawanna Blues’ deliver stories that defy stereotypes 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “The Fantasticks” is so exceedingly fey that there’s probably not room for more than one of its kind in hard-bitten Manhattan. Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z On TV, she co-starred in the British comedy series Two’s Company and had frequent guest-starring roles in American sitcoms, most recently as Alec Baldwin’s hard-bitten mother in 30 Rock. Elaine Stritch: How to Be a Broadway Diva 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In the hard-bitten squawk of a man who spent formative years in Alcatraz for bank robbery, Bulger declares himself "shocked" to discover a former close associate was an FBI informant. Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z His home there was a salon for writers and others, with a guest bedroom that hosted both the hard-bitten poet Charles Bukowski and Jimmy Carter. Miller Williams, Plain-Spoken Arkansas Poet, Dies at 84 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Later in life, she claimed another Sondheim song as her own: “Still Here,” the hard-bitten ode to overcoming dark days that gives New York Times writer Alexandra Jacobs the title for her slick, entertaining biography. Review | Elaine Stritch biography takes a gossipy, once-over-lightly approach 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z She played him a ballad about a hard-bitten cowboy she’d long admired, “High Ridin’ Heroes,” and he eased her into the recording process by making it the first song they tackled the next day. Tanya Tucker Would Rather Be Celebrated While She’s Alive 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z He also took the audience prize at the same event, while receiving the highest marks from the hard-bitten orchestral players themselves. First sight: Lionel Bringuier 2010-08-05T22:52:00Z The book was praised as "a combination of supreme elegance of form with hard-bitten wisdom". Desmond Elliott shortlist announced 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z When Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers meet, she’s hard-bitten and he’s a sleek aristocrat, or vice versa, and through that magic comes an amazing dance. Duos of 'Genius': A. Scott Berg and John Logan, Colin Firth and Jude Law, Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Gordimer's small frame and hard-bitten face was frozen solid. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z Adi is a young idealistic police officer, put under the charge of a hard-bitten veteran of the Mumbai police, whose method of shoot first, don't ask questions, throws the young officer into turmoil. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-21T19:48:29Z Bob is the outsider’s outsider: a sassy, hard-bitten, pint-size stray. For Fans of Ivan, the Answer to ‘What About Bob?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Will's hard-bitten idealism finds its voice in a stirring monologue in the episode's first scene. A big story developing on HBO's 'The Newsroom' 2012-06-20T09:16:04Z I’m guessing that not even the most hard-bitten or nostalgic New Yorker would want to travel back to the days when the city was choked with waterfront factories and industrial squalor. Exhibition Review: The Height of City Manufacturing 2011-04-01T22:56:22Z Like their fellow northern souls, they play hard-bitten, anthemic northern melancholy. Cherry Ghost 2010-10-05T21:00:00Z But Fugazi went for something direct and throttling; it played around with Jamaican dub, the loose-limbed punk coming from California, and drops of minimalism, arriving at a dark, stony, hard-bitten sound. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z But unlike McGee, an Army veteran, Stroby’s hard-bitten hero was once a soldier of fortune with a more flexible code of ethics. Many Sinners, Very Few Saints 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The vision of Ms. Ryan, who so often plays hard-bitten, working-class women, in professional clothes is welcome. The Week Ahead: Oct. 24-30 2010-10-24T01:00:00Z Brezovica, about 250 miles southeast of Sarajevo, served as a backup for those games, but Yugoslavia’s more hard-bitten skiers already knew the place for offering the steepest slopes and deepest powder for the fewest dinars. Skiing Kosovo, Abandoned Lifts and All 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z One is a conniving, endlessly itinerant businesswoman so hard-bitten that she’ll haggle over the price of her child’s life. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z Taylor’s Inez, possessed of a hard-bitten skill for self-preservation, stays one step ahead, constantly moving forward, a soft shred of hope her only cold comfort. Review: 'A Thousand and One' offers a gritty New York story of survival 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Her character, Inez, possessed of a hard-bitten skill for self-preservation, stays one step ahead, constantly moving forward, a soft shred of hope her only cold comfort. Here are the new movies opening at Seattle-area theaters this week 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z But the sheer amount of research confirming the power of a healthy gut has become undeniable for even the most hard-bitten skeptic, Gilbert included. The link between our food, gut microbiome and depression 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Coltrane came to fame as a hard-bitten detective in the 1990s series “Cracker,” for which he won best actor at the British Academy Television Awards three years running. Actor Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter’s Hagrid, dies at 72 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The hard-bitten newsman was once punched by an organized crime associate and received veiled threats from mobsters. Slain Las Vegas reporter spent career chasing corruption 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z But the show’s hard-bitten survivors are so admirably tough that some viewers have apparently lost sympathy for “weaker” characters like Keyshawn, who has remained trapped in her relationship with Derrick. Perspective | ‘P-Valley,’ a drama about strippers, is TV’s best depiction of covid 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Acclaimed character actor Philip Baker Hall, whose prolific career ranged from collaborations with director Paul Thomas Anderson, including “Magnolia” and “Boogie Nights,” to a scene-stealing turn as hard-bitten library cop Lt. From 'Seinfeld' to 'Magnolia,' journeyman character actor Philip Baker Hall dies at 90 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Such fodder, when told by Caldwell with the casual but hard-bitten candor of a bar conversation, makes for a beloved It Girl. Review | In ‘The Red Zone,’ Chloe Caldwell documents life with PMDD 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z "They got a lot of excitement," she says of the hard-bitten miners in the audience. The deadly accordion wars of Lesotho 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z But the typical private eyes in the novels of Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald or Robert B. Parker were hard-bitten men who had fraught relationships with women and booze. Richard Lipez, novelist who featured a gay private eye, dies at 83 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z He could seem hard-bitten, or bitter, or just plain mean when he lashed out at political opponents. Bob Dole, a man of war, power, zingers and denied ambition 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z But while he plays him for laughs, behind the goofiness there’s a sincerity and genuineness to Lasso’s wisdom that captures even the most hard-bitten players. How 'Ted Lasso' won over American soccer stars and contributed to UCLA's Pac-12 title 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z But DMX was New York rap at its most distilled: brash deliveries, a hard-bitten worldview and productions rooted in soulful, confident horn samples. DMX rapped, and lived, with a ferocity unmatched in the annals of hip-hop 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He has given Scotland an identity, a reason to believe after years of scepticism that long since travelled into hard-bitten cynicism. Scotland's story is one of comebacks 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Even the most hard-bitten sages of the capital have been gripped by dread over what might be in store in the next few months. A Capital Engulfed by Sadness and Rage 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z For all the History Channel documentaries about World War II they might consume, they aren't exactly the hard-bitten warriors they dream themselves to be. Michigan manbaby protest: Wait, we thought conservatives were "rugged individuals" 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z But the pristine white robes of his captors raised suspicions that they were not really hard-bitten militants. Trump asks Syrian government to ‘work with us’ to free journalist who disappeared 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z A working-class youngster in 1984 England discovers a hidden talent for dance with the help of a hard-bitten teacher. Movies on TV this week: March 15: 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' on Freeform; Raiders of the Lost Ark and more 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z If those hard-bitten realists don’t quite feel lucky to endure the bleakness so as to exhibit their true colors, they do feel the value of a misery surmounted. Die-hard Rutgers loyalists have noticed something new this hoops season: Other fans 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “Other people who saw it in the office cried. There are a lot of fairly hard-bitten political people here.” Watch Bloomberg and Trump’s Very Different Super Bowl Ads 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In the closely observed yet loosely stitched together fragments, there’s a wisdom about cinema’s soul-searching capabilities one usually expects from a hard-bitten old-timer, not someone shooting their debut while still in high school. Review: New Orleans-set ‘Burning Cane’ marks the bold debut of 19-year-old director 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the hard-bitten male longform journalist posting Instagram stories of unknown jungles is not treated or viewed as an influencer; he doesn’t even worry about his influence in the first place. The journalist as influencer: how we sell ourselves on social media 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z She played a hard-bitten single mother of six who finds romance in Harlem with a garbage man played by James Earl Jones. Diahann Carroll: groundbreaking Oscar-nominated actor dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Macron’s second-round opponent was Marine Le Pen, the hard-bitten dynast of the racist, xenophobic far-right Front National. Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z “My grandfather was a journalist,” said Kiplinger, sitting in his office, clad in a sweater and shirt, looking more like a landed squire than a hard-bitten journalist. Knight Kiplinger’s 25-year plan: Build a town from scratch on the Florida coast 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z She has to be breathy and seductive, but is Eddie any less constrained by the expectations of the hard-bitten private eye role he’s playing? Detective Pikachu is an excuse to revisit Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Place, who earned “Diane” one of its three prizes at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, commands nearly every frame of this movie with a kind of hard-bitten luminosity. Review: In the deeply moving ‘Diane,’ Mary Kay Place gives the performance of her career 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Part two of the documentary leads all but the most hard-bitten fan to an understanding of why he lied then, and is telling the truth now. I’m shocked by those who still won’t accept Michael Jackson as abuser | Dan Reed 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The veteran actor played hard-bitten or menacing types. Morgan Woodward star of 'Dallas' and 'Star Trek' dead at 93 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z But he’s also a cautionary case, a hard-bitten casualty who couldn’t quit, now displaying symptoms of “neurological slowdown.” How cage-fighting helped a couch-bound coward take control of his life 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Even decades later, the film’s emotional impact could cause normally hard-bitten critics to swoon. Michel Legrand, Oscar-winning composer of ‘Windmills of Your Mind,’ dies at 86 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Her character, Erin Bell, is a hard-bitten detective in the Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett mode. ‘Maybe at this point I equate femaleness with being radical.’ 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z It was a moment to further age the hard-bitten souls in attendance. Derby stun Manchester United in shootout: Carabao Cup clockwatch – live! 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z In 2016, he won millions of votes from unfortunate toilers in hard-bitten places. Forget Trump – populism is the cure, not the disease 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “It is a way of extending solicitude to people who live in the hard-bitten white rural counties,” he said, but not to black residents in poor urban neighborhoods. Which Poor People Shouldn’t Have to Work for Aid? 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Plot twists involve Warroad’s hard-bitten hockey coach as a suspect, the smuggling of a powerful street drug and a climax at the expansive woodland home of legendary Minnesota musician Graham Itasca. Goldman’s second crime novel takes off when the puck drops 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “I decided to show my face to the country,” Mr. Falcón told followers last week from a stage in this hard-bitten industrial town southwest of Caracas. Maduro’s Top Rival Has a Problem: Venezuela’s Opposition Won’t Vote 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z “I just could not take it anymore,” she said in an interview in Gafsa, the hard-bitten Tunisian mining town where she lives. ‘I Can Finally Dream’: Tunisia Expands Protection for Battered Women 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z A hard-bitten veteran of the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, Pershing, known as Black Jack, hardly seemed the type of soldier to harbor a sentimental streak. Opinion | Dear Mom, the War’s Going Great 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z I was emailing with a friend, your basic hard-bitten journalist, and told him what I was hearing—it sounded like the beginning of the world. What Does This Moment Demand of Us? 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The Hotel Vegas looks the part of a derelict roadhouse, and Charles' demure but hard-bitten cosmic county fit right in with the scene. Andrew W.K., Bad Gyal and Pearl Charles find different paths to lifting SXSW's spirits 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Entirely self-taught in her craft, she won respect for her “encyclopedic knowledge of photography” and for cultivating the trust of even the most hard-bitten photojournalists, according to a tribute on the Time magazine website. Bobbi Baker Burrows, custodian of Life magazine’s storied photo archive, dies at 73 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z I think of myself as pretty hard-bitten and jaded, but I found it inspirational — even thrilling. Opinion | Don’t underestimate the possibility of Oprah 2020 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z A hard-bitten career soldier who we experience as having been hollowed out by years of violence, Blocker hates his opponents with a passion he feels is justified. The western springs back to life with 'Hostiles,' a brutal tale of moral survival – LA Times 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Her tale of that fateful journey from Arkansas to the Grand Canyon by Thelma, a timid housewife with a chauvinist husband, and Louise, a hard-bitten waitress with a painful secret, was Khouri’s debut screenplay. Did ‘Thelma & Louise’ move the needle for female-led films? 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z It was the shifting allegiances of the hard-bitten post-industrial areas of Britain, historic Labour strongholds, that shocked the remainers – these are the British equivalents of rust-belt towns and the shattered mining communities of West Virginia. From rust belt to mill towns: a tale of two voter revolts | Thomas Frank 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z He impressed hard-bitten railbirds with his work this week, but there’s an overarching sense of we’ll-believe-when-we-see. Foreign-born horses are a mystery at the Kentucky Derby, 100 years after one first won it 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The problem was that, 10 years later, his ensemble of actors looked too young and healthy to play hard-bitten middle-aged former and practicing drug addicts convincingly. Review | With ‘T2 Trainspotting,’ a watershed movie gets the sequel it deserves 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Even with my hard-bitten palate, which has grown impervious to a few of the hottest peppers in the known Scoville universe, I could not contain this wildfire of a dish. Big Wang’s Cuisine review: This Sichuan cooking doesn’t pull any punches 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z And it’s not just about what we hard-bitten reporters would call “the news.” End of journalism or new beginning? Journalists need help answering fake news with the real thing 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But when they discovered how entrenched and hard-bitten the status quo really was, they promptly folded, contented themselves with mere celebrity, and accomplished nothing. A Trump-Ryan Constitutional Revival 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z A hard-bitten press corps is well used to running on “Clinton time” and know we could be here a while yet. Clinton to American Legion: Trump trip to Mexico won't repair 'year of insults' – live 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Initially hundreds of hard-bitten cowboys raised their hands or rode into town, eager to throw in with what now was billed as the Great Cowboy Race. The Race of the Century that Marked the End of the Wild West 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z In the most hard-bitten, vitriolic presidential campaign in generations, it is far from certain that Kaine is ferocious enough to combat Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee who tramples all manner of political decorum. What’s a nice guy like Sen. Tim Kaine doing in a campaign like this? 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Never mind that Down in a Hole, the debut album one of country music’s newest artists is releasing later this summer, is the product of a traditionalist’s love of the genre’s hard-bitten, gravelly voiced storytellers. Kiefer Sutherland, country singer: 'This is what I want to do with my life' 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z A hard-bitten professional campaign consultant, hopping cross-country flights to snag rich donors, might find the crowd at the Union Jack Pub a little homespun. What next for Bernie Sanders 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Need a front row in the old-fashioned hard-bitten English image, and a line-out that holds under extreme pressure? England Grand Slam deserved despite imperfections 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z At 32, having weathered lean times and near misses, she’s more of a hard-bitten classicist. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But why does Rebus, a hard-drinking, hard-bitten loner, resonate with readers around the world? Ian Rankin: 'Rebus has elements of a maverick American PI' 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z These are terrific films, which laid the groundwork for the hard-bitten skepticism of later Huston classics like "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "The Asphalt Jungle." 'Straight Outta Compton' a heady biopic about gangsta rap legends N.W.A 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The criminals in Mexican Crime Photographs, for all their hard-bitten faces and gangster personas, seem almost innocent in comparison. Mexican mugshots: criminal cult heroes of the 60s 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In 2005, when the Israeli government, led by Ariel Sharon, the hard-bitten former general, ordered the evacuation of about eight thousand settlers from Gaza, their departure was accompanied by entrenched resistance and mass protests. The Assassination that Killed Peace in Israel 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z To paraphrase a hard-bitten studio advertising executive: "Way to sell the movie, Tom". Tom Hiddleston 'leans into the darkness' on Crimson Peak - BBC News 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z And this in New York, the capital of hard-bitten, world-weary modernity. Religion is like sex – it can seem absurd, but it works | Jonathan Freedland 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z They were hard-bitten cold warriors, but sobered and clearly conscious of the ultimate “downside risk” of nuclear miscalculation. What Reagan would say about Iran 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Lowell’s death equally devastated Boston society, which had just lost his brother-in-law Robert Gould Shaw, and the hard-bitten Army. On Confederate symbols: Which ones should stay and which ones should go? 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Just to salt the wound, he did so in Glasgow, a hard-bitten fiefdom of Scottish pride, where Tories fear to tread. David Cameron Carries On 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The discussion felt oddly poignant: Joan Rivers’s reflexive emphasis on marriage and weight, her hard-bitten advice for surviving in a man’s world, seemed almost naïve in the context of Dunham’s fourth-wave-feminist exhibitionism. How Joan Rivers Got That Way 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z But it calms down, too, building on an appealing set of characters, including a hard-bitten middle-aged oboist, played by Debra Monk, and a maestro mistress, played by Saffron Burrows. “Empire” and “Mozart in the Jungle” Reviews 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Take Johns Hopkins Hospital, in hard-bitten Baltimore; the facility has more than 80 entrances. When Patients Kill Doctors: The Horrifying Murder Of Michael Davidson 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z More hard-bitten observers did not share the crowd’s optimism. Taking the reins 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z You could safely call the Post newsroom staff hard-bitten. Ben Bradlee, a hero to The Post newsroom It wraps up Sunday with another tale of that conflict - “Fury,” starring Brad Pitt as a hard-bitten tank commander in the war’s final weeks. ‘Leviathan’ named best picture at London Film Fest 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility also mocked the protesters for their use of the hard-bitten cowboy image often seen in cigarette commercials. Horseback protest targets BLM, but environmentalists say whoa 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “But I’m not afraid,” he says, getting nods of support from a group of hard-bitten men seated with him under the shade of a banyan tree, waiting. These Aren't Refugee Camps, They're Concentration Camps, And People Are Dying in Them 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z “It was considered below the belt. I don’t think it was below the belt,” said Rick Shaftan, a hard-bitten New Jersey political consultant who worked for one of Christie’s opponents in that race. Chris Christie’s 1994 ad was too tough (and inaccurate) for Jersey 2014-01-20T01:10:01Z He became a brash young assistant coach with a hard-bitten drinking problem. Monmouth Coach Leads by Example, Both Bad and Good 2013-12-27T02:24:07Z During his glory days, he seemed to find rich gold mines with blithe ease, courted supermodels, and charmed and cajoled hard-bitten New York money men to throw in their lot with him. Brazil's Once-Richest Man Gets Ready for Oil Company Bankruptcy 2013-10-30T14:55:11Z Little wonder the nation still pines for the hard-bitten rider, who signed off disillusioned with the tour and has spent this season repeatedly denying he is set for a comeback. Phillip Island braces for Stoner-free era 2013-10-15T07:24:25Z The hard-bitten New Zealander is acutely aware of the respect and affection in which O'Driscoll is held, not just in the British Isles and Ireland, but all over the rugby world. A brutal decision and Gatland's biggest gamble 2013-07-03T12:00:27Z Indeed, when even hard-bitten, barrel-chested props are talking about the need for proper rehydration after a game, something is not quite right in the rugby world. 'It was nothing like I have experienced before' 2013-06-01T21:52:06Z Don't be surprised to see hard-bitten corporate executives and military officers with tears in their eyes as they watch their children's presentations. Starting a New Life in Israel 2013-05-21T04:07:59Z It sounds like the set-up for a Hollywood blockbuster: an exiled warrior king returning to his homeland with a platoon of hard-bitten mercenaries, seeking to pierce the armour of England's valiant last hope. Why Sam Warburton is the man to captain the British & Irish Lions 2013-04-23T11:58:23Z When television summarisers are teaching hard-bitten professionals rugby's darker arts, it is safe to assume the game has changed somewhat. England expect 'wounded animal' 2013-02-22T22:00:02Z It won wild applause, even from the hard-bitten hacks. General Motors: Now it’s time to step on the gas 2013-01-17T16:04:42Z The harsh exchange just a few steps from the Oval Office — which Boehner later bragged about to fellow Republicans … I love those blushing em-dashes, as if the four-letter word itself would scandalize Politico’s hard-bitten audience. Politics has become the new reality TV 2013-01-02T17:08:00Z Anecdotal evidence suggests the consumers responsible are not just hard-bitten types – men, usually – of a certain age, but much younger people. The antidote to rampant capitalism? 33⅓ revolutions per minute 2012-12-25T18:00:01Z Instead, they have steadily improved, to the point where even hard-bitten former All Blacks such as Sean Fitzpatrick are increasingly smitten. Unbeaten All Blacks aim to complete unexpected journey against England 2012-11-30T22:00:01Z He's just as likeable as Robshaw, but McCaw sounds here like a hard-bitten leader with 115 Test caps and in charge of a side that has been unbeaten for 15 months. Richie McCaw: 'It's the bits that go with the job that wear you down' 2012-11-26T16:32:21Z Only Henry Cooper on this side of the Irish Sea – and Barry McGuigan on the other – generated similar, unquestioning warmth among a hard-bitten constituency. Ricky Hatton can be ranked among the best of British boxers 2012-11-25T13:00:15Z For all his great public service, his intellectual dazzle and his uncanny ability to win over both hard-bitten reporters and sceptical lawmakers, General Petraeus may not actually be much missed. The Petraeus affair: The man and his myth 2012-11-15T16:05:22Z “There’s a hard-bitten quality that came out of being an immigrant,” Mr. Feldbaum said, “of being the only Jewish family in a small Midwestern town and living through the Depression, war era.” Arlen Specter, Former Senator, Dies at 82 2012-10-14T23:49:32Z Mr Nesbo was a footballer, stockbroker and rock musician before creating his hard-bitten detective, Harry Hole. Schumpeter: Those bloody Scandinavians 2012-08-30T15:01:35Z On the face of it, it is a ghost outfit, whose existence is only noticeable to those hard-bitten people who pore over records held at Companies House. Credit crunch: elusive ghosts of the financial feast lurk in the shadows 2012-08-06T21:32:40Z Boris Johnson said 'hard-bitten' members of his own family were caught up in the Olympic excitement. Boris Johnson: London 2012 Olympic excitement is 'spreading like virus' 2012-07-27T08:07:13Z For hard-bitten horseplayers like these, the scratch meant the odds on his rivals would unfortunately drop. For Betting Buddies, a Belmont Stakes Reunion 2012-06-09T23:36:05Z Of late, conservatives have set their sights on the Industrial Areas Foundation, a national organizing group founded by a hard-bitten, inventive organizer named Saul Alinsky. Gotham: From a Fake Union Organizer, an Anti-Liberal Scheme 2012-04-03T02:09:52Z The other, who held a spare horse by the rein--my horse--was a man I had seen at the inn, a rough, shock-headed, hard-bitten fellow. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The debate over climate science plays out on a battlefield of hard-bitten ideology, propaganda and cold cash. Scientist Says He Lied to Obtain Documents from Climate Skeptic Group 2012-02-21T22:45:00.507Z He liked best to recall the doings of his boys, although his own and those of his hard-bitten, redoubtable old grandfather had not been forgotten in the long tale. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Sitting in the shadowy room behind him a hard-bitten Canadian of a very different stamp watched Eshelby with an ironical twinkle in his eyes. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Good nature perhaps could hardly have survived the desperate battles and intrigues in which this hard-bitten old statesman had been engaged all his life. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z We staff, distribute and market it differently. We are building The New Newsroom: a veteran staff of editors, hard-bitten reporters, tech-savvy digital journalists and a distributed workforce of 850 qualified contributors. Inside Forbes: The Joys and Challenges of Being a Disruptor at a 94-Year-Old Startup 2011-12-27T22:27:34Z He had noted the advance of the hard-bitten homesteaders who were settling wherever the soil was good, and who were marked by sternly utilitarian methods and democratic ideas. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Their justification for the rule was that women might be offended by the "rough language" tossed about the confined area by the hard-bitten writing fraternity. Recalling old males-only Husky Stadium press box of 1940s 2011-11-14T20:00:45Z In that one, Ms. Hudson, already in charge of I.F.P./West, played a hard-bitten colonel who, under hostile grilling on the witness stand, refused to flinch. Dawn Hudson?s New Job as the Academy?s Chief Is a Balancing Act 2011-10-30T23:37:46Z Here, however, he received valuable aid from a hard-bitten old sergeant of the Black Watch, named Thrush, who had thus far been an unpopular advocate of steerage discipline. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z It was not before the Brigade had been up the Line for another sixteen days, and come back again, that a little hard-bitten man aroused fresh hopes and passed all tests. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z The conifers that roll across it are generally too small for milling, and its penetration is remarkably difficult, but a silver vein accounted for the presence of a few hard-bitten miners. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Oh, he looked a hard-bitten, unscrupulous sort of pirate. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z I can recollect two or three, hard-bitten men who stayed a day or two with us and then vanished into the wilds. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The second officer, a wiry, hard-bitten Welshman, was staring through his binoculars north, south, east, west. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z When next they take the Test match field, in August, there should still be a nucleus of old heads, and some hard-bitten experience from the Shield as well. Mike Selvey on Strauss's new England 2011-01-07T08:18:12Z The Tigers, despite a shaky start, will feel that they should have won what was a typically hard-bitten match. Leicester Tigers 22-22 Perpignan 2010-12-19T19:44:26Z By contrast, Arsenal claimed the sort of hard-bitten victory at Blackburn that is not generally viewed as part of their repertoire. Arsenal look fine in theory but persistently fail the practical 2010-09-28T06:01:00Z I remember the long red wall of Hampton Court as the one warm feature of the hard-bitten landscape. Witching Hill Yet these are the same men, the same rough, hard-bitten fishermen, as fine sailors as use the seas. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War And to appearance the fellow had not changed a hair from the simple, untaught, somewhat hard-bitten but altogether undistinguished headman of Apyodaw. Where the Pavement Ends “Those men are a hard-bitten lot, and not in the least likely to be led into any booby trap.” In the Whirl of the Rising Their mounts were wiry, hard-bitten nags of medium height, and in good condition. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion As they came up, he was inspecting the papers of a small, hard-bitten character who wore greasy dungarees and a cap black with grease and grime. The Caves of Fear They looked such hard-bitten, wiry, whiskered fellows, that their young adversaries felt rather desponding as to the result of the morrow's match. Tom Brown's School Day's They were just a bunch of tired, hard-bitten, mud-spattered, rough-and-tumble soldiers standing stoically at attention, equally ready to go over the top, rebuild a shell-torn road, or march to a rest billet. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children Then, too, came about the formation of that hard-bitten corps, ‘Lamont Tigers,’ and tigers indeed the savage enemy was destined to find them, until eventually he sullenly laid down his arms at the Matopo Peace. In the Whirl of the Rising There was the usual jostling crowd of hard-bitten Earth miners, and of the metal people who come to lose their loneliness. B-12's Moon Glow There was a lean, hard-bitten colonel of the American liaison force in Greece. The Invaders The other night, in his reply to the Duke of Wellington’s violent and foolish speech, he chose to turn upon Lord Rolle, a very old man and a choleric, hard-bitten old Tory. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III They were armed and he knew by their hard-bitten faces that it was another party of jumpers. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp He was a grand young being as he stood there, straight and clean-limbed; hard-bitten of muscle, albeit so young; powerful and graceful in his stride. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman Their features were hard-bitten, seamed with hatred and with vice unspeakable. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 But there remained for the lean hard-bitten men of Texas, who had retired within the adobe buildings, the task of dying as fighting men should die. When the West Was Young I am not surprised, for I saw them training in England, and was impressed by their toughness—hard-bitten, short, powerfully built men, who took things very seriously. War Letters of a Public-School Boy They told how the moss-troopers rode down Ettrick water long ago; but human nature did not change and hard-bitten men now went out on the snowy trail, carrying shovels and axes instead of spears. Partners of the Out-Trail The most unkempt, hard-bitten bachelor present gazed upon the majesty of babyhood with awed reverence and delight. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Just such hard-bitten, vice-ridden men as these, and filled with just such a mad, gibbering hatred of the free men they had escaped from. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Even among such hard-bitten old salts as they all were, more than one could be seen mumbling a prayer for the unfortunate men who had put up such a gallant fight. Mr. Wicker's Window They are a keen, hard-bitten crew, and make us feel proud of our countrymen; they are reticent mostly, bearing the unmistakable stamp of responsibility. Round the Wonderful World This annoyed Jim, who knew that while hard-bitten prospectors braved the risks of starvation on the snowy trail, greedy company-floaters often got the reward. Partners of the Out-Trail They were deeply-burned, hard-bitten men, emaciated to a curious uniformity, mounted on horses as gaunt as their riders. The Dop Doctor He had served in India and South Africa, a hard-bitten soldier, proud of the traditions of his old regiment. The Rough Road With every sentence that the other spoke, O’Connor was judging Flatray, appraising him for a fine specimen of a hard-bitten breed—a vigilant frontiersman, competent to the finger tips. Brand Blotters The girl’s eyes admired him, a lean hard-bitten Westerner with eyes as unblinking as an Arizona sun and with muscles like wire springs. Crooked Trails and Straight They are very strong in the jaws, and are what are called hard-bitten. Anecdotes of Dogs What was it that this hard-bitten, travel-worn man, one who had seen, evidently, much of wind and wave, was really after? Ravensdene Court His cajolery could lead men into diverse lunacies, but it could not induce the hard-bitten manufacturer of quack remedies to provide a brand-new automobile for his personal convenience. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol There has been nothing of consequence in either House, except the dressing which Lord Plunket gave Lord Eldon, though that hard-bitten old dog shows capital fight. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I He was a dark man, rather little than big, but wiry and hard-bitten; keen and eager of face, yet was there something lordly about his bearing. The Sundering Flood I was going to add women, but then I thought of how hard-bitten little Alice would look beside the dream creatures I had in mind. The Night of the Long Knives His scarred, hard-bitten face looked as though it had gotten that way when he tried to kiss a crocodile. A Spaceship Named McGuire Five dusty, hard-bitten men, all armed with rifles and revolvers, drew level with them. The Highgrader The men were of a tanned, hard-bitten, adventurous brand; the women were nearly all pretty or attractive or both, and mostly young. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa A member of the hungry, hard-bitten band owned a solitary lucifer; but was afraid that the damp had deprived it of all virtue. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea "No, sir," Hinge answered, turning his hard-bitten, queer old mug towards me with a shining smile. In Direst Peril More!" said the hard-bitten old seaman, who was as brown and withered as the Bushmen he had lived amongst so long; "More, is it? A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa They were a hard-bitten lot, burned to a brick red by the untempered sun of the Rockies. The Highgrader The colony at that place, which had been regularly laid out as a town with fortifications and with some degree at least of European comfort, numbered some three hundred hard-bitten soldiers. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure He was a hard-bitten old Irishman named Callahan, and nobody got past him without justification. Ten From Infinity Gray, lean, hard-bitten faces, their eyebrows so light and sparse that it seemed their eyes were hard stones which never seemed to shift their straight-ahead gaze. Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier In the short life of the match each had taken stock of the other,—the one, a pleasant-faced Imperial officer, the other a hard-bitten Colonial. On the Heels of De Wet The curling beard of youth had covered his hard-bitten face and his head was unconsciously thrust forward, as if he still glimpsed his vision and was eager to follow it further. Rimrock Jones Jack had seen such before, and knew them for tough, wiry, hard-bitten little Kachins, small men, but immensely muscular and powerful. Jack Haydon's Quest He did not deny himself that the confident air of these hard-bitten sailors made strong appeal to his judgment. The Stowaway Girl He is not the hard-bitten pirate of story—but a senile, crapulous, lachrymose imbecile; an object of derision. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Raw guerillas, with a leaven of hard-bitten cases, are always a source of danger. On the Heels of De Wet He had been the hard-bitten captain of a hard-bitten company, fighting Moros in the jungles of Mindanao. Dearest We've travelled fast, Jack," said he, with a troubled brow, "but these hard-bitten, wiry, little mountaineers have travelled faster. Jack Haydon's Quest Into most eyes he looked down, for when he stood in his socks he was six feet two inches of hard-bitten sinew and man-flesh. A Pagan of the Hills It seemed to him very curious in a hard-bitten hunter of big game. The Terrible Twins Any cadet within hailing distance of the hard-bitten spaceman was likely to wind up with a bookful of demerits. The Revolt on Venus I fancy he was a hard-bitten old bachelor. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma From all over Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and New Mexico hard-bitten, sunburned youths in high-heeled boots and gaudy attire had gathered for the Frontier Day celebration. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story You will still find men who in all their spiritual sickness have kept something of that restless, hard-bitten northern energy, and that fierce hunger for righteousness, which is hard to fight with. The Half-Hearted Rutherford looked at the prisoner, a lean, hard-bitten Westerner with muscles like steel ropes and eyes unblinking as a New Mexico sun. The Sheriff's Son His chain was now taken by a different sort of man; a very lean, spare, hard-bitten little man, with bright dark eyes and a leather-colored face. Jan A Dog and a Romance A month later the gaunt, hard-bitten outfit tied up at the Landing. The Gun-Brand The young male, as she had actually seen him, had been of the sailor type, hard-bitten, primordial, ruthless. The Ragged Edge One has only to look at the muscular, hard-bitten Americans and Englishmen who stand round the furnaces to see that they represent a type of humanity which in India is still extremely rare. India, Old and New Always Louis said, easily, that he would be safe; always he joined forces with the hard-bitten, hard-toiling miners who each brought his bottle of whisky and drank it without ill-effect. Captivity As a hard-bitten, time-worn party fighter, with an experience going back to pre-confederation days, said to the writer: "Laurier will never make a leader; he has not enough of the devil in him." Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics They were paired typically of that strange fraternity, the hobo, one being a grizzled, hard-bitten man of waning middle age, the other a vicious and scrawny boy of eighteen or so. Success A Novel They discovered that their bluff, hard-bitten, rather likeable employers, scarcely one of whom could read or write, had really invaded Anywhere as the trustees of civilisation. The Open Secret of Ireland It was one of the fallacies that underlay all Napoleon's naval combinations, that he believed that our hard-bitten admirals would behave in this guileless manner. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy The others fell in behind, a silent, hard-bitten outfit as ever took the trail for that most dangerous of all big game—the hidden outlaw. Mavericks The Northerners in their blue jerseys, with a thistle upon their breasts, were a sturdy, hard-bitten lot, averaging a couple of pounds more in weight than their opponents. The Firm of Girdlestone They are young fellows, many of them— beardless boys who have not yet been hard-bitten by a long campaign and have not received their baptism of fire. The Soul of the War He was a fighter, a dominant, hard-bitten woodsman, so the tale ran. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Elijah was one of the hard-bitten old-time travelers himself. Burning Daylight But he was looking forward to seeing some of the old hard-bitten faces in those isles of enchantment. The Mountebank It is these hard-bitten men singing courage to you from their tent; it is the waves of their island home crooning of their deeds to you who are to follow them. Courage It was the face of a complete stranger: at the best that of a hard-bitten war correspondent or explorer; at the worst—well, I don't know what it mightn't have been at the worst. A Rogue by Compulsion He was long and lean and hard-bitten, and his supply of conventional small talk was practically non-existent. The Coming of Bill For more than ten generations the forebears of this hard-bitten mariner have followed the sea in its various ramifications. The Cruise of the Kawa You see, he's such a boy when he's playing that they can't realize that he's a hard-bitten, hard-working, deep- thinking, mature, elderly benedict. The Little Lady of the Big House This is a serious difficulty for the hard-bitten philosopher who at considerable pains has formed conceptions, acquired a technique, and taken an orientation towards life and the universe which he cannot dismiss in a moment. Bergson and His Philosophy He had been hard-bitten in his youth and trained in a hard, grim school. Rung Ho! He's a hard-bitten military man, and some day—who knows?—he'll have to fight for his country. In the Wilderness If I have failed to mention recently our hard-bitten old navigator it is only because we had seen comparatively little of him. The Cruise of the Kawa And his was not even a scratch crowd, but a hard-bitten regiment with all sorts of glorious names embroidered on its colours.... The Red Planet But all depended on what he was able to do, what he and his hard-bitten South Africans could accomplish. The Judgment House He had a lean, hard-bitten face, tanned by exposure to the sun and wind, and the clean-shaven lips met with a curious suggestion of bitter reticence in their firm closing. The Hermit of Far End He was not one of the "hard-bitten raw-boned men with keen eyes and ready for anything" beloved of the journalists, who loom so large in the public eye when "big things are afoot." In the Wilderness The attackers were five to one, and the five were soldiers of De Wet, the hard-bitten veterans of a hundred encounters. The Great Boer War He forgot, the amazing young idiot, that he was talking not to a maiden aunt, but to a hard-bitten old soldier. The Red Planet In height he was tall, and his figure was thin and loose-jointed, but stringy and hard-bitten. Sir Nigel Then his hard-bitten face lights up, although the lines remain hard as ever, hiding his ecstasy, and he remarks gruffly, off-handedly, that he guesses he can play over a few records. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Captain Colchester began to look uncomfortable at once, and that silly, hard-bitten old woman flew out at Charley as though he had said something indecent. A Set of Six The hard-bitten features of Casey Ryan, tanned as they were by wind and sun to a fair imitation of leather, were never meant to portray mixed emotions. The Trail of the White Mule Not every young woman would brave, without trepidation, a virago who had cracked a hard-bitten warrior's head with a poker. The Red Planet The Lieutenant would still be here: a hard-bitten man, of stiffer stuff than his Captain. Under the Red Robe Gone are the crack clippers, the driving captains, the hard-bitten but efficient foremast hands. A Collection of Stories He was about the average of a country physician—a hard-bitten, practical man who loved his profession, loved sport, and professed conservative principles. The Grey Room They looked such hard-bitten, wiry, whiskered fellows that their young adversaries felt rather desponding as to the result of the morrow's match. Tom Brown's School Days And the first owners of Berande bought his recruits—a hard-bitten gang of murderers. Adventure The other, who had a spare horse by the rein—my horse—was a man I had seen at the inn, a rough, shock-headed, hard-bitten fellow. Under the Red Robe Forty hard-bitten lifers waited for the guard Barnum to go to sleep on his shift. The Jacket (Star-Rover) And along came poor Hughie and me, two new chums, to take hold of that hard-bitten gang. Adventure Long Bill Hodge, the hard-bitten mountaineer, was the first man interrogated. The Jacket (Star-Rover) |
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