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"Our dispositions were mixed when we were born, Eliza. You're unsentimental and hard-headed: I'm romantic. You'll never know what love means." "If you are a sample, I hope not." Eliza's nose assumed an even higher tilt than usual. "Well, if I knew I had no chance with Natalie I'd let Gordon's men put an end to me that's how serious it is. But I have a chance I know I have." "Bosh!
Carlisle, the newly-elected Speaker of the House. It was a rainy Sunday, and it was in my mind to warn him that our company was made up of hard-headed lawyers not apt to be impressed by fairy tales and ghost stories, and to suggest that he cut the spiritualism in case the conversation fell, as was likely, into the speculative.
He was hard-headed, practical, in all he did. She was sure that his profession came first with him. He probably thought that a wife would be a useful accessory, and he was kind-hearted enough to be willing to do her a good turn at the same time that he provided for his own wants.
Nothing was altered, neither the axes, the fasces, the red caps of Liberty on the wall-paper, nor the insults shouted by the tricoteuses in the galleries to those about to die, nor yet the soul of Fouquier-Tinville, hard-headed, painstaking, zealously turning over his murderous papers, and, in his character of perfect magistrate, sending his friends of yesterday to the scaffold.
Under such circumstances even the least cultivated of the hard-headed business men could not fail to regard with special pleasure the silent work that Duncan was doing for the salvation of at least a considerable group of young men who might otherwise have fallen victims to the evil conditions that beset them.
They had to study at the universities in the intervals, perhaps, of agricultural labour; and if the learning was slight and the scholarship below the English standard, the young aspirant had at least to learn to preach and to acquire such philosophy as would enable him to argue upon grace and freewill with some hard-headed Davie Deans.
"There ought to be one there, but I should be afraid of trouble," answered Le Moyne seriously. "Name me one or two good men for poll-holders, and I will risk any disorder." "Well, there is Eliab. He's a good man if there ever was one, and capable too." "How about Nimbus?" "He's a good man too, honest as the day is long, hard-headed and determined, but he can't read or write." "That is strange."
His customers held him in high esteem, respected his intellectual ability for he was a Trinity man were fascinated by his charm of manner, loved him for his kindly qualities, but would not pay their bills. Many years ago, having failed to work harmoniously with his business partner, a shrewd, hard-headed, Belfast draper hard-hearted Mr. Gwynne considered him Mr.
To organize and administer the new industrial-financial-commercial régime, the leaders must be shrewd, ingenious, quick-witted, thick-skinned, unscrupulous, hard-headed, and avaricious; yet daring, dominating, and gifted with keen prevision and vivid imagination.
'And my nephew Herbert is a hard-headed fellow, not likely to fly off on a vague notion. Is this Hall girl's mother still living here? 'Certainly. It has been a bad business, her going off with that Jones; but I ascertained that she was married to him. 'Jones Sam Jones, or Rattler? 'Even so. 'Ah! She was dismissed on his account. And I detected him in imposing on Miss Morton.
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