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They were street boys; their lives had been spent in a hardening atmosphere. Directly the first sense of novelty passed away, and their poorly-fed stomachs craved the unusual fare served up for them, the fellows grinned at one another, seized their silver spoons, and dived into the stews in a fashion that would have horrified every servant in the house. How they ate!
He waited uneasily until she turned and faced him. "We are going out to sea," she said. "Where's the steamer?" It was a question Vane had dreaded; but he answered it honestly. "I can't tell you. It's very likely that she has gone straight on to Victoria." He saw the suspicion in her suddenly hardening face, but the quick anger in it pleased him.
These qualities and characteristics of our infancy trust, filial reverence, freshness, simplicity are not qualities to be left behind, but the natural forecast of that religious spirit which is the highest growth of maturity, and our own safeguard against the hardening and debasing influences of the world and the flesh.
So saying, and hardening himself against all anticipations of the ill consequences or scandal which might arise from such a measure, the manly hearted smith resolved to set evil report at defiance, and give the wanderer a night's refuge in his own house. It must be added, that he did this with extreme reluctance, and in a sort of enthusiasm of benevolence.
She might have continued to teach me at home, for she was mistress of every accomplishment, but she thought the discipline of an institution like this would give tone and firmness to my poetic and dreaming mind. She wanted me to become practical, she wanted to see the bark growing and hardening over the exposed and delicate fibres.
The lady coming down the steps darted at the approaching carriage a look which lingered involuntarily. Mrs. Carteret, perceiving this glance, turned away coldly. With a sudden hardening of her own features the other woman lifted the little boy into the buggy and drove sharply away in the direction opposite to that taken by Mrs. Carteret's carriage. "Who is that woman, Olivia?" repeated Mrs.
Here Edith paused to put on her snow-shoes, for the snow in the ravine was soft, being less exposed to the hardening action of the wind; and the dog sat down to wait patiently until she was ready. "Now, Chimo, go forward, my good dog. I will follow you without fear," she said, when the lines were properly fastened to her feet.
In case hardening, iron absorbs carbon, which causes it to swell; and as some kinds of iron have a greater capacity for carbon than other kinds, in case hardening they will swell more, and any such unequal enlargement in the constituent portions of a piece of iron will cause it to change its figure.
The best and fattest time would come when the hardening plant was no longer fit to eat and the flowers began to shed their seed.
Thus we learned once more, that, instead of sinking into effeminacy and fantastic delights, there was reason rather for hardening ourselves, in order either to bear or to counteract inevitable evils. Among the stoical exercises which I cultivated, as earnestly as it was possible for a lad, was even the endurance of bodily pain.
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