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 Sentences of harden
Definition:
v. become hard or harder
Example:
The cold might harden the butter.
Sentence in Classic:
Jo stood aloof, meanwhile, trying to harden her heart against him, and succeeding only in primming up her face into an expression of entire disapprobation.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott Context
His niece was deep in thought likewise, trying to harden and prepare herself against farther questioning.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen Context
She often told herself it was folly, before she could harden her nerves sufficiently to feel the continual discussion of the Crofts and their business no evil.
Persuasion By Jane Austen Context
Nay, O my children, harden not your hearts to such warfare, neither turn upon her own heart the mastering might of your country; and thou, be thou first to forgive, who drawest thy descent from heaven; cast down the weapons from thy hand, O blood of mine.
The Aeneid By Virgil Context
He shoveled black sand into an iron receptacle and pounded it tight and set it aside to harden; then it would be taken out, and molten iron poured into it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair Context
Legree made up his mind, that, as Tom was not hard to his hand, he would harden him forthwith; and some few weeks after Tom had been on the place, he determined to commence the process.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe Context
Her visit was, I remember, extremely unwelcome to Holmes, for he was immersed at the moment in a very abstruse and complicated problem concerning the peculiar persecution to which John Vincent Harden, the well known tobacco millionaire, had been subjected.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle Context