1 Mr. Gradgrind, it will be observed, being much softened, Mr. Bounderby took particular pains to harden himself at all points.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III 2 She could no longer harden and grip for her own satisfaction upon him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 10 3 His niece was deep in thought likewise, trying to harden and prepare herself against farther questioning.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XXXII 4 As soon as the boy begins to harden, she'll care no more for him, than for a block of wood.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER XXVI 5 'You harden your heart against me, Rose,' urged her lover.
Oliver Twist By Charles DickensGet Context In CHAPTER LI 6 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.
7 Selden's calmness seemed rather to harden into resistance, and Miss Bart's into a surface of glittering irony, as they faced each other from the opposite corners of one of Mrs. Hatch's elephantine sofas.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 2: Chapter 9 8 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.
9 But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXXI. 10 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 AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 11 Dr. Meade bit his lip and his jaw hardened as his face went cool again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXI 12 The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had lasted a thousand years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 13 A flush went over Cade's white face and Cathleen's long lashes veiled her eyes as her mouth hardened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 14 As the never-ending line went by, her heart hardened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 15 Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXII