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H-hanged ef I would, either, if I d-did n't th-think the toughest part o' it wus g-goin' ter be right yere." She glanced almost shyly up into his shadowed face, her black eyes like stars. "Si dat vas eet. I vas de coward; I just runs avay so 'fraid of de fight. I no like de fight von leetle bit. But I know you, señor; you vant to stay here, an' have de fun. You Americano an' like dat ver' mooch.
Simply as an endurance racer it is the toughest and longest-winded thing on earth and can run down and tire out every paw, pad, or hoof that strikes the ground wolf, deer, horse, antelope, wild goat. This is only a sample of its toughness and resisting power all along the line.
The ancients, you know, were so sensitive in the matter of temperatures that in summer time they traveled only by night and some of their toughest generals had underground chambers built for them during their campaigns.
Though the toughest of men, he shivered a little and drew up a wicker chair close in front of the fire. "It's incredible!" he murmured, and as he stared at the flames this thought seemed to haunt him all the time. Bisset laid the table and another hour passed.
You know how a quartz crystal oscillator in a radio-control apparatus will break, if you work it on a very heavy load at the peak? They simply smash the crystals of metal in the same way. Only they project their field." "Then our toughest metals are useless? Can't something tough, rather than hard, like copper or even silver for instance, stand it?"
"the weakest and stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in another way, survived. Life was a continuous free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations of the family, the Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence."
At daybreak the hadji goes outside to take a preliminary peep at the weather, and returns with the unwelcome intelligence that it is snowing. "Better snow than rain," I conclude, as I prepare to start, little thinking that I am entering upon the toughest day's experience of the whole journey through Persia.
It was said on the country side that old Simon knew lost secrets of woodcraft taught by the early man; in what moon to fell the shingle timber that it might not curl on the roof; on what face of the hill the sassafras root was red; how to know the toughest hickory by hammering on its trunk; when twigs cut from the forest would grow, if thrust in the earth; and that secret day of all the year when an axe, stuck into the bark of a tree, would deaden it to the root.
"I met Atwater at lunch to-day. He told me; said he was sorry, but " "Yes. Everybody is always sorry, but " Kellogg let his hand fall on Duncan's shoulder. "I'm sorry, too, old man. But don't lose heart. I know it's pretty tough on a fellow " "The toughest part of it is that you got the job for me and I had to fall down." "Don't think of that. It's not your fault "
Here we struck the plains proper, or the great American desert, as it was often called, the home of the desperate Indians, degraded half-breeds, and the squaw man white men with Indian wives who were at that time either French or Spanish; also the fearless hunters and trappers with nerves of steel, outdoing the bravest Indian in daring and the toughest grizzly in endurance.
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