| Well, I don't think that threatening to kill them and carrying out the deed is going to affect most hardened criminals much. |
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| He won the first two frames and lost the third, which hardened his resolve. |
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| I pictured him as someone who would return every evening after day long barehanded street fights with hardened warrior men. |
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| The war hardened general then strode out of the barracks as his soldiers got dressed in their battle armor, and headed towards the stables. |
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| Shimoyo's face hardened with determination, and with a single quick movement and flick of her wings, she rotated her body into a headfirst dive. |
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| This is true of highly hardened aluminum alloys as well as titanium alloys and hardened steels. |
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| Machining this tough hardened steel is more time-consuming and difficult, but it allows parts to be machined to very tight tolerances. |
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| Once set, you hardened them in the airing cupboard and painted them with the stuff that was supplied. |
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| It is an industry ripe for penetration by hardened terrorist cells bent on finding new ways of wreaking havoc. |
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| No amount of imperial bluster, disciplined armies or powerful artillery trains could impress these hardened tribes. |
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| Kate walked softly, her black suede shoes padding faintly on the hardened ground. |
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| Those little bumps of minted candy sprinkled on the frosting before it hardened will surely be a hit with all. |
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| Navin Samarasinghe also entered the final of the men's open event where he is billed to do battle with the hardened Janaka Suwaris. |
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| We would bump and twist along narrow roads, their surfaces deeply grooved by hardened tire tracks. |
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| The inscriptions were created by pressing printer's type into the clay before it hardened. |
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| His blue eyes narrowed as his high-planed face hardened, and even his bleached blond hair seemed to bristle. |
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| Rugged, mountainous, impenetrable, recalcitrant and peopled by an enemy hardened and fanatical, it was considered unconquerable. |
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| The hardened matter was slag, a waste product from metal working, and contained evidence of iron, copper and lead manufacture. |
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| What's a failed legal procedure, anyway, to people long hardened by unfading scars from the Cultural Revolution? |
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| I picked candle wax where it had run down the neck of the wine bottle and hardened. |
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| As the next morning dawned over the castle, hardened soldiers soberly spoke of yesterday's battle. |
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| But like his hardened ancestors from Achill island he braved the weather and endured. |
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| I had hoped that we would be spared what happened here tonight until you all had been hardened by more experience. |
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| Even though he informs them from his shabby desk that they are looking at God, these hardened thugs brutalize him anyway. |
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| This is a place for snow, ice hardened drifts, yet on a January day, midges danced over the streams. |
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| The trees were skeletal spires of hardened white ash, and the ground was bare of greenery, instead coated with an oily black film. |
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| Some homophobic views were probably softened through empathy, while others hardened amid increasing vitriol directed at the gay community. |
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| However, the critical point is that this graceful state can be habitual and ordinary because of laziness, pride and hardened heart. |
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| As hydration occurs, the silicates are transformed into silicate hydrates and calcium hydroxide, and the cement slowly forms a hardened paste. |
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| Next, drive a screw into the nozzle end of the hardened caulk and use the screw to pull the hardened caulk out of the nozzle. |
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| Underneath the hardened, calloused hands and slightly sunburnt nose, there was a hint of elegance. |
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| Softly the wind blew his wispy hair, and his cheeks hardened, the shadows falling down as the sun set farther into the sky. |
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| A surprised burst of laughter softened Adrienne's face before it hardened into familiar lines. |
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| The generalised irreverence of his earlier films has hardened into a focused attack on the equal absurdities of war and the British class system. |
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| The problem is not that America has hardened into red states and blue ones. |
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| He wasn't terribly popular in our part of the constituency and rumours, some of which have hardened into allegations, abounded. |
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| Its pure white heart of snow often is hardened into grey and traitorous sleet. |
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| The US has hardened into two virulently opposed ideological and cultural camps that are almost equal in numbers. |
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| I hardened it off for growing outside and transferred the whole lot into a large, blue glazed pot. |
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| We've hardened the turf off with some high-potassium fertilizers and tried to keep any water on the surface of the greens to a minimum. |
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| Hanging on to the vine was hard on the hands and often produced blisters, despite the fact that our hands were well hardened with farm work. |
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| Burning arrows streamed over the trees, a few finding marks in hardened leather armour, or our caravan wagons. |
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| She handed them a bundle of letters, all prettily made up in fancy paper, sealed with a flourished hardened wax stamp. |
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| The design engineer should be establishing the requirements for the hardened concrete and leave the mixture proportioning to the producers. |
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| But the best place to test for air is where the results would most closely reflect the air-void content in the hardened concrete. |
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| The benefits of SCC include primarily its workability in the plastic state, rather than enhanced properties in the hardened state. |
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| Finally, almost absentmindedly, she picked it up and gingerly ran her finger under the hardened wax sealing on the back. |
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| Bonnie informed him that the muscular arm of their wings formed a hardened scale, dense enough to cut flesh and metal alike. |
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| When they are cool and the wax is hardened, place the cones in a basket and add a colorful ribbon bow to the handle. |
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| On the practical side, dried and hardened wax provides a measure of physical protection to the finish. |
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| First the hardened concrete is saturated with Back-Set, either with a brush or by spraying. |
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| This hardened infrastructure costs millions of dollars and can consume a considerable amount of space. |
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| The same mix characteristics that make it hard for water to penetrate into the hardened concrete make it tough for the bleed water to get out. |
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| Superman has been known to leave his fingerprints in steel and in hardened concrete, accidentally. |
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| If the bleed water gets finished back in, the hardened concrete surface may be weak, porous, and vulnerable to abrasion and salt scaling. |
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| More than once, someone working on the hardened deck concrete would step into the still plastic concrete over the columns. |
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| Watching these machines turn a block of hardened steel into a Dakota Arms rifle receiver is an incredible experience. |
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| His fixed-blade knives are strong by design, using full tang construction and properly hardened steel. |
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| Installing thick, hardened glass in a steel frame can effectively disperse blast pressure from the glass to the frame to the walls. |
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| Safe-like vault doors pre-hung on hardened steel frames are readily available from the major safe manufacturers. |
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| The six-strong crew inside them is surrounded by timber and plywood and not the hardened steel cabs in modern fire engines. |
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| This 11 mm hardened steel, double-locking padlock has 100,000 key variations and a lifetime guarantee. |
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| For firms specializing in hardened buildings, the peace dividend has been negative. |
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| A third arm and fingers of hardened steel will help here, until the little tabs bed in a bit. |
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| The Delrin body is nicely knurled for a good grip, but both the punch and nut driver are hardened steel. |
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| In order to improve the ductility and toughness of hardened steel, it is reheated for a relatively short time at the moderate temperature. |
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| Some confusion arises as to the nomenclature of micro-constituents found in hardened and tempered steels. |
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| In addition to the bollards, the exterior concrete wall has been hardened and the windows have been designed to resist blast loads. |
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| Nozzles can be made from several materials, including brass, nylon, stainless steel, hardened stainless steel and ceramic. |
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| High-security hasps have anchored eyebolts, pinless hinges, hardened steel anchoring loops and hidden screws. |
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| It is made with A514 steel and hardened bushings and requires no additional hydraulics. |
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| But I am a hardened, experienced and seasoned reporter and I have been around long enough not to be taken in by appearances. |
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| The hardened professionals were back in the region competing in a challenge match in Blackburn. |
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| These individuals are getting hardened trained experience in a battle zone. |
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| Building workers with no experience are taken on for low wages, while hardened professionals watch impotently. |
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| Experienced, hardened convicts would plan for this by taking newcomers with them. |
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| With a World Cup and European Championship under the belt they have battle hardened experience but their key players aren't too old. |
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| A player with limited tournament experience will beat a hardened pro if he is dealt good cards and plays them competently. |
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| Experienced sportsmen become hardened and learn to deal with this sort of thing. |
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| It is a battle hardened, experienced group that's going and they'll do a very good job, I'm sure. |
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| Initially the most sensitive about the nature of the mission, Avner becomes hardened by the experience. |
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| I am very concerned that our schools are already graduating hardened criminals. |
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| Our overcrowded jails is another avenue through which petty crooks graduate to hardened criminals. |
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| The fact the boys at the centre of the brouhaha confessed is evidence, too, that they're not hardened criminals. |
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| Whether the combination would work on hardened criminals is problematic, but much depends on how the two techniques are used. |
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| We did run into a few scary guys, but with the majority of them it was almost impossible to see them as hardened criminals. |
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| A fascinating study, carried out recently in America, looked at a group of men who seemed destined to become hardened criminals. |
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| This nation, once proud to offer a safe haven, now routinely locks asylum seekers up alongside hardened criminals. |
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| Wouldn't you rather have people like this coming out into society instead of hardened criminals? |
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| If he was such a hardened criminal, why did he leave the only woman who could identify him as being in the country alive? |
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| The emotional life sentence now facing Cable is one that may convince other witnesses to be wary of taking on known, hardened criminals. |
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| A firm nexus has been established between amoral politicians, ambitious bureaucrats, unscrupulous businessmen and hardened criminals. |
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| And we're dealing with a real hardened criminal that's violated, I believe, just about every international law. |
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| Regis seemed to go out of his way to dispel rumors that all who live at Wilton's Yard are hardened criminals. |
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| In comparison with a structural steel hardened in a furnace cheaper carbon steel can be used with higher strength after induction hardening. |
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| The centre works with beginners, but their pride is persuading hardened riders used to hunters to switch to carthorses. |
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| The hammer area of rocker arms is hardened progressively or by oscillation. |
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| At only a few weeks of age, a kitten's bones have not yet hardened and become osseous. |
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| It can definitely inspire a chuckle or two from even the most cynical and hardened otaku. |
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| The leading edge of the cylinder was chamfered and the hammer and mainframe were case hardened. |
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| A hardened approach to this problem is long overdue, but it must have teeth. |
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| Their hosts also organised several school visits, where hardened cavers ended up doing the hokey-cokey with the children! |
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| Time and again, in areas where hardened hoods tread warily, I see lost tourists in leisurewear by Tommy Hilfiger and accessories by Gucci. |
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| Piston rods are preferably hardened on a horizontal machine independent of the machining condition of the end face. |
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| Also, some reactor housings will have to be hardened to protect them from air attack. |
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| Rocker arms and clutch hubs are examples of automotive production parts that are surface hardened by induction. |
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| Still covered in blood from his sick parody of a baptism, he smiled with such cruelty that even his most hardened captains turned, sickened. |
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| Without a doubt, its great attraction continues to be the existence of groups of enormous hypogea carved in the hardened volcanic ash. |
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| In the hardened and tempered condition the fractured surface shows dull facets. |
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| There is sometimes in us a perverse refusal to accept or to believe in good, a deep-seated, hardened refusal which belittles or despises good. |
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| Civil War combat had hardened him to a pessimistic expectation of repeated failure. |
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| Though reddish-brown and hardened by petrifaction, the original character of the wood was still evident. |
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| Such a weapon could be therefore used with accurate delivery against hardened targets, or with moderate inaccuracy against unprotected targets. |
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| It was the one name that the queen was loath to hear at that fateful moment and her heart was hardened. |
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| This interpretation of the motives of the fathers of federation hardened later into an unshakable conviction. |
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| Even hardened journalists and academics, long resigned to their toil among the ignorant, have recoiled before the feeble-mindedness of the man. |
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| Fully pearlitic malleable iron may be surface hardened by either induction heating and quenching or flame heating and quenching. |
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| The hardened smokers will probably be in company of other smokers most of the time and won't cause any particular friction. |
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| These products have little or no effect on the plastic or hardened properties of concrete. |
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| The main purpose of chemical fixatives is to preserve the tissue, changing its fresh liquid sol state to a hardened preserved fixed state. |
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| The gauchos of Argentina wore chaps that hardened from the foam and sweat of the horse's body, causing them to walk with flexed knees. |
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| All components built into easily portable, hardened, rubberized field case, including fold-out keyboard, LCD, and micro-mouse. |
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| The pennant is eased and hardened just like a foresheet to tension or harden the luff of the gennaker. |
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| One last check shows the cross hairs are dead center on the hardened aircraft shelter doors. |
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| The internal diameter of hardened crown wheels are ground by holding the component in pitch line chucks to ensure accuracy of the finished gear. |
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| It is as if the lava from an erupting volcano had hardened into a crust just before it engulfed the neighborhood. |
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| The soft and wet grass under her shoes crunched slightly, hardened by the morning frost. |
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| Other safe designs make use of a hardened, angled deflector plate to accomplish the same end. |
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| As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously. |
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| Removal of this hardened metal layer is essential for optimum mechanical properties, and an integral part of any descaling process. |
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| You will have no doubt that this pudgily imperfect man was once a hardened criminal. |
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| The especially hardened leaf-tips puncturing through frozen ground make the plant a very welcome, if uninvited guest. |
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| Some, however, doubt that a minimum five-year jail term will deter hardened criminals. |
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| Finally, the gravediggers had to dig down 13 feet through the snow and into ground hardened by six weeks of frost. |
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| His entire demeanor had changed, becoming hardened and grim, determination coupled with a strength that carried him past exhaustion. |
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| Without electromagnetically hardened equipment, everything from transportation to information is subject to disruption. |
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| Similarly, in a nuclear environment, electromagnetic pulses would wreak havoc on computers and networks that are not hardened. |
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| Experimenters soon found that the hardened gum could be dissolved in turpentine and then reshaped. |
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| Army helicopter gunships and MiG fighter planes lead the attacks but cannot distinguish between hardened officers and fresh abductees. |
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| This means a hardened Euro-sceptical rhetoric from him, but also heightened tensions with the real Tory Euro-sceptics over withdrawal. |
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| When the florentins have completely cooled and hardened, melt the chocolate in a double boiler. |
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| His hurt expression and absent apology stirred little guilt in her hardened bosom. |
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| What surprised Maria was their lack of armor, except for a few that wore hardened leather jerkins over their tunics. |
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| Weekly racegoers are replaced by their once-a-year counterparts, hardened punters by revellers. |
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| But what Pete and Katrina can vouch for is a degree of comfort at their events that could convert the most hardened anti-festival goers. |
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| And unlike the joint in Indy where boxing was a no-no, the jail in Cali specializes in fights between hardened criminals. |
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| I gripped my backpack, knuckles whitening as the trepidation in my gut hardened into anger. |
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| What's ready to hand is not the very pulse of intuition but a hardened and socially-astute response. |
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| Periodically, the oysters are graded for size and then put into bags of about 200, to be hardened. |
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| The unit has the only hardened bunker air support operations center in the Air Force. |
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| Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde. |
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| After the glue has hardened, rub fine-grain sandpaper across the surface of both knobs, making their surfaces smooth. |
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| Butter has a lower melting point than hard white fats such as lard and hardened vegetable cooking fat. |
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| Within the hardened shell of the isolated self, one is safe from the pain of love. |
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| We've got the all out no hopers total alcoholics and then there's the younger hardened drinker set. |
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| When properly alloyed and hardened by heat-treating, this tendency is greatly reduced. |
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| The lack of progress has hardened feelings of embitterment and emboldened hard-line rejectionists on both sides of the divide. |
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| Don't expect cleaning solutions alone to remove large particles of hardened mortar. |
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| Indian or Chinese ink is essentially lampblack which is mixed with gum and resin and hardened by baking. |
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| These are shaped to the desired contours and are usually made of hardened tool steel ground and lapped to a mirror finish. |
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| So, in a nut shell, I had hardened myself to these cat-calling, whistling, yoo-hooing yo-yos. |
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| By mid-November, once the newly paved road has fully hardened, it will be reopened to bus traffic. |
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| Once the resin hardened, it was removed to provide an exact replica of the bas relief. |
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| He spent his teenage years in Lafayette, Indiana, an angsty reprobate and hardened juvenile delinquent. |
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| Because not all plants we buy in nurseries are sun hardened, it's nice to shade your new plants with some camphor laurel branches. |
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| Amber is made from aged, hardened tree sap or resin and can be found in just a few areas of the world where conditions were just right. |
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| His expression hardened and he met her golden gaze with a crystalline blue one. |
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| They are seasoned, hardened competitors who usually leave rivals licking their wounds. |
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| Anti-racists are campaigning in the area to isolate the tiny number of hardened racist thugs. |
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| Primitive man started with a arrowhead that was hardened by burning the end of the shaft slightly, then sharpened by shaping the burned end. |
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| The feel of the artery itself may suggest whether its wall has normal resilience, or is hardened and thickened by arteriosclerosis. |
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| Even some of the more hardened observers are stunned by the astronomical amounts of money that can be made. |
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| Sometimes you may be able to grind off the hardened plastic residue with a power sander. |
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| Mr Thomas said the steady increase in sales was being driven now by family buyers, rather than hardened technophiles. |
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| One study found eating mandarins cut the risk of liver disease, hardened arteries and insulin resistance. |
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| The resistance to atmospheric corrosion is improved and copper steels can be temper hardened. |
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| The martensitic stainless steels can be welded in the annealed or fully hardened condition, usually without preheat or postheat. |
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| Worst of all, the pair ham up their performances too much for even the most hardened thesp to endure. |
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| The bottle can be made of clay or ceramics and hardened in an oven. |
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| Over the years of life I had hardened my heart with hatred and mistrust. |
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| Better ones have a hardened steel pin with the beveled latch. |
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| I knew that if I went away, I would become a hardened criminal. |
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| Engineered to maintain original GM dimensions and process parameters, these axles are induction hardened and feature a 100-percent machined shaft and precision nobbed splines. |
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| My resolve hardened and in one smooth motion I pushed open the door. |
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| She wore perfume which would give the most hardened logician the staggers. |
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| I suppose they're quite a hardened bunch, the international press corps? |
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| To get from the police post to the crater you descend the declivitous wall of the old volcano, with its layers of hardened lava at the top and scree at the bottom. |
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| In the space of two years, Gilbert's reputation had changed from embattled loser to hardened survivor, and the word was out that he was looking for more acquisitions. |
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| If the truth be told, Biskind doesn't sound all that hardened to it. |
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| They had been rejected, first, by the father of the child and then by a number of people who, after giving them shelter, eventually hardened their hearts and turned them out. |
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| You were forced to come away from the drama and conclude that while detention works for some, it only makes others into hardened career criminals. |
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| He was also a hardened anti-communist who simultaneously refused entry to mainly left-wing refugees from the Franco fascist dictatorship in Spain. |
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| In the extreme cold of the Arctic winter, hares dig dens in hardened drifts, and, while resting, they sit on their well-furred hind feet hunched into a heat-conserving ball. |
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| An imbalanced heart or circulatory system can be due to poor circulation, low or high blood pressure, angina and heart attacks and hardened arteries. |
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| Their vulnerability is such that in a combat zone, one must take near-heroic measures to protect them in hardened shelters or, at a minimum, in revetments. |
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| That's because replacing polyunsaturated fatty acids with oleic acid could mean that less processing is needed to create the hardened but spreadable product. |
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| The Vickers hardness test operates on similar principles, the major difference being the use of a square based pyramidal diamond indentor rather than a hardened steel ball. |
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| It defends faith by preventing it from being hardened into abstractions. |
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| The sound of heavy hooves upon the hardened earth rang out not far off. |
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| The country has long since hardened into its own shape, and whether it holds together or breaks into pieces is largely up to the Iraqis who now have it in their hands. |
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| Artillery barrels are made of extremely strong hardened steel so that they can withstand the repeated blasts of artillery shells when they are fired. |
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| Unfortunately, some people with arteriosclerosis or atherosclerosis have no symptoms until one or more arteries are so hardened that they cause a medical emergency. |
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| I maximize time in hardened buildings and only return to my thin-walled quarters for sleep. |
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| Its young front line ran hard at the Azzurri, harrying hardened defenders with speed and, yes, panache. |
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| His heart froze into muddy ice and his eyes hardened into a wide glance. |
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| It takes several close calls month-after-month to get truly hardened, or numb, in places like Fallujah, Khost, or Helmand. |
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| The electrode was calibrated by allowing it to equilibrate with 2 ml of air-saturated artificially hardened water, circulated in the chamber by a small magnet. |
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| Place them out of direct sun on a light windowsill or in the greenhouse to grow on until they can be hardened off and planted out at the end of May. |
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| I touched my finger to the index finger of his left hand, feeling the hardened skin there, supposedly from pressing guitar strings down at the right frets. |
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| All hardenable steels must be hardened and tempered before being nitrided. |
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| Not everyone has the luxury of a greenhouse, but plants can be hardened off by taking them outdoors during the day and bringing them in again in the late evening. |
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| A mouthpiece is made for the instrument of gum or hardened wax. |
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| At a rapid pace, Shun's hand began to curl up and his fingers disappeared, leaving his fist bare of appendages, and the flesh on it suddenly hardened into a sort of bone. |
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| Gone are the days of meeting in the club bar and discussing cricket and learning the game from hardened club players and sharing in their experiences. |
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| The experiences kind of hardened us against the club, and it is actually only in the last week, with what has happened to them, that our members have been discussing them. |
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| A Texas chemical company has developed a molecular cement dissolver as an alternative to acid for removing hardened concrete from tools, trucks, and other equipment. |
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| From the initial call, entries were slashed down to twenty hopefuls who then developed their screenplays under the beady eyes of hardened professionals. |
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| Amber is the hardened resin of coniferous and angiospermous trees. |
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| This is made clear in a key scene from the first episode when the battle hardened character dubbed Sergeant Scream leads his troops in a firefight. |
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| Eventually the constant mild nourishing tonification, combined with strict avoidance of coffee and alcohol, perhaps will begin to soften the hardened cells. |
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| Polyurethane is extremely light and has the feel of hardened styrene foam. |
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| Why would hardened soldiers, quite willing to commit a suicide bombing, politely exchange information for leniency? |
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| Films, coatings, and overlays generally become less cost effective as production quantities increase, especially when the entire surface of work pieces must be hardened. |
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| Early blades were pattern-welded, a technique in which strips of wrought iron and mild steel were twisted and forged together, with the addition of a hardened edge. |
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| The first form of Sheffield Plate was arrived at by binding, with a brass wire, an ingot of silver to an ingot of copper which was hardened with about 25 percent brass alloy. |
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| Sanctions against the Taliban have merely hardened their resolve not to break with their cultural tradition and betray their honoured guest to their enemies. |
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| When maggots have completed their development they convert their last larval skin into a puparium, a hardened shell within which the pupa develops. |
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| In due course, traffic management became a village issue, acrimony flourished and, as the anti-speeders campaigned for road humps and chicanes, opposition hardened. |
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| Some, like Baby Doc Campbell, have been hardened by their experience. |
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| Firstly, how can the Scots hope to compete with England's hardened professionals nine months hence if they can't even beat a bunch of amateurs from Blighty and Clogland? |
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| One minute he's mixing it with his hardened opponent in midfield. |
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| In late May, the young plants should be hardened off in a cold frame for a few days before planting in a sunny spot and a fertile, moist but well-drained soil. |
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| This was especially so in a penal colony where many of the convicts were hardened criminals and many of the free settlers were themselves ex-convicts and impulsive men. |
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| Eventually some of the water, that which has not reacted chemically with the cement, evaporates into the air but some of it remains in the hardened concrete. |
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| The combat and direction centers were housed in huge concrete blockhouses, hardened to withstand overpressures of only five pounds per square inch. |
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| The beach at low tide stretches so far that to go for a paddle you must patter for a quarter of an hour across the stripy rippled sand, hardened by the retreating tide. |
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| Both unalloyed and alloyed gray irons can be successfully flame hardened. |
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| Even a hardened criminal may repent if given a second chance. |
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| Martensitic stainless steels are essentially alloys of chromium and carbon that possess a distorted body-centered cubic crystal structure in the hardened condition. |
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| They consist of a single piece of hardened steel, and their hydraulic fluid conduits are contained in the jacks' interiors, allowing for safer, more efficient operation. |
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| They pivot on a dozen hardened players, but the fringe does not match. |
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| The nail plate, which is dead, compacted and hardened keratin, is the visible part of the nail that you polish, and the nail bed is the skin beneath it. |
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| A comedy titan who was always the center of attention, amusing even the most hardened of cynics with his manic energy. |
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| The sulfur at El Desierto occurs in a whitish to grayish Pliocene tuff, consisting mostly of hardened, chiefly andesitic to dacitic, volcanic ashes, and capped by basalt. |
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| He hadn't yet developed the hardened constitution of a special ops agent. |
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| We'd sit around the magazine guffawing at the ludicrous stories that kept sprouting, but belief in shadowy neocon influence has now hardened into common knowledge. |
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| The characteristic apricot scent of these prized wild mushrooms triggers primeval hunter gatherer instincts, making a country walk attractive to even the most hardened townie. |
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| With his hardened hands thrust into the pockets of his fleece, farmer Richard Harper leans back in his wellies to admire his flock of newborn lambs. |
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| Crenshaw has spent long enough in the jug to know what he is talking about, but his crimes have always been those of stupidity rather than those of a hardened career criminal. |
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| The city's intransigence has hardened already hard upstate opposition. |
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| Artificially hardened vegetable oils are worse than saturated fats. |
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| The trigger housing is machined from a block of aluminum, with the trigger and sear components made of hardened steel, hand fitted for proper operation. |
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| Now he is his own man, hardened and scarred by backbench rebellions, geopolitical scraps and a hostile media firing on him from both left and right. |
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| If the resin has hardened in recent times, it is called copal. |
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| Her face visibly hardened and she looked at her sister vindictively. |
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| The texture of the mature perianth of the Salicornioideae may be soft and characterized as membranous, pithy or chartaceous or hardened, appearing crustaceous, corky or woody. |
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| Some hauberks may have been made of scales attached to a tunic, with the scales made of metal, horn or hardened leather. |
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| Many of them are convicted drug dealers and other hardened criminals. |
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| In addition, they possess a hardened exoskeleton that is periodically shed during growth. |
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| Valiant was a man beaten down by life, but not enough to be hardened. |
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| Includes hardened steel small and large swaging heads and rods to accommodate cases. |
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| When the antler growth is fully grown and hardened, the velvet is shed or rubbed off. |
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| They replied that if we had lances they had lances of bamboo and stakes hardened with fire. |
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| They should be planted in soil that has been warmed under a cloche beforehand and then hardened off gradually under a cloche. |
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| The trochar screeched, squealed, as they drove it into the hardened flesh of his legs. |
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| Freeze the semifreddo in a loaf pan until hardened and serve. |
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| The next step was a cooling trough, where the sugar crystals hardened around a sticky core of molasses. |
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| Time and the discovery that the man she married was not just emotionally mean but graspingly tight-fisted have hardened her heart. |
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| Each model consists of two dedicated sprockets with hardened teeth connected with a double strand roller chain. |
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| Out March 5 THIS gritty reboot tells the story of how Lara Croft evolved from being a trustafarian traveller into a hardened explorer. |
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| The hardened al-Qaeda operative turned out to be a Brooklyn-born gangbanger. |
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| There are 16 courses in this best-selling game from Acclaim Entertainment, which even the most hardened thrill-seeker will want. |
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| The move was not successful, and opposition to Henry's new government hardened. |
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| The move was not successful and opposition to Henry's new government hardened. |
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| The killing of the women and children hardened British attitudes against the sepoys. |
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| The debates, and the escape of Charles I from Hampton Court on 12 November, are likely to have hardened Cromwell's resolve against the king. |
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| The hardened concrete contains interconnected air voids totalling approximately 15 to 25 percent. |
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| A new administration building and a protected, hardened Nuclear Reporting bunker was built at RAF Carlisle. |
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| Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. |
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| A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. |
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| While both rebellions were defeated easily, they hardened James's resolve against his enemies and increased his suspicion of the Dutch. |
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| But after 800 texts from News International even the most hardened SPAD would feel harassed. |
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| When this basic ballet slipper form has hardened, build up a heel and sole with more plaster wrap. |
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| Once hardened, use medium-grade abrasive paper to rub down to a smooth finish. |
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| When it had dried and hardened, it was cut up and then fried until crisp, then served with honey and pepper. |
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| The Nitride Plus hardened linear rail and roller block system is designed for long life even in high speed and high cycling applications. |
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| Farrell had been to prison, and he thought the daily malignancy he had witnessed there had hardened his heart. |
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| Continue potting up rooted cuttings of chrysanthemums and plant out well rooted plants once they have been hardened off in a cold frame. |
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| These grades are not magnetic, are hardened by cold working, are highly corrosion resistant and are easily welded. |
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| Walton Tap Extractors are designed with hardened steel fingers that fit in the flutes of broken taps and back them out easily and safely. |
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| It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money. |
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| They should not be used to hold hardened criminals and dangerous recidivists. |
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| The use of the hardened seed oyster in the culture of the food oyster and its significance to the oyster culture industry. |
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| The colonies gradually passed laws that hardened early conditions of indenture into lifelong racial slavery attached to African descent. |
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| One hundred feet of hardened tool steel rods and a 9 horsepower hydraulic pack are shipped with the Pilot Bore. |
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| The reflow process consists of melting the solder paste and then cooling it to form a hardened state that attaches the component to the assembly. |
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| Our forces are the best of the world, battle hardened, motivated and now also experienced in asymmetrical warfare. |
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| British Mutoscope keep dull and weak, while A R Dean Ordinary have hardened a little. |
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| Simply run this Lawn Edger along the edge of your lawn and the hardened steel blade gives an immaculate edge to your lawn as you go. |
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| After all the celluclay has hardened and details are added, the students cover the figure with a thin layer of spackle to fill in cracks or smooth out surfaces. |
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