1 Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
2 Here in north Georgia was a rugged section held by a hardy people.
3 Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 4 No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 5 But Radney, the mate, was ugly as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 6 The effect is very fine, when considered with reference to its presenting the hardy fishermen under one of their few aspects of oriental repose.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 7 As a general thing, these ship-keepers are as hardy fellows as the men comprising the boats' crews.
8 Those hardy flowers had run away from the laundryman's garden, and the grass in the middle of the lot was pink with them.
9 Against such a decree there was no Delaware sufficiently hardy to murmur, much less oppose himself.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 10 It abounded in fruits of almost every description, from the hardy apple of the north to the delicate orange of the south.
11 The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.
12 The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey.
13 Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward.
14 She is also very hardy herself, which of course will influence her in her opinion of the wants of others.
15 The woman was young, but of a robust and hardy make, as she need have been to bear the weight of the heavy bundle which was strapped to her back.