1 As for Aunt Pitty, she was nervously trying to stifle a belch, for the rooster they had had for supper was a tough old bird.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 2 His body seemed so tough and hard, as tough and hard as his keen mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 3 For all his lankiness he was tough, and good nursing pulled him through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 4 He paused and gnawed the tough pone and Scarlett shivered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVII 5 He's stubborn and he's got a mouth as tough as iron.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 6 That doesn't help a man pull himself out of a tough fix, like we're all in now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XL 7 He was tough and hard and there was no nonsense about him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 8 They are a tough and bullheaded lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIX 9 The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun. 10 The Negro tough, on the contrary, is given to just that kind of offending, and he almost invariably singles out white people as his victims.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-BarnettGet Context In V 11 He affects a "tough" aspect, wearing his hat on one side and keeping a cigarette in his mouth all the evening.
12 Its owner was a Mr. Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.
13 An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the eyes of a tough little bird.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI 14 He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained.
15 Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths, she wasn't all tough rubber-goods and platinum, like the modern girl.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 10