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Updated: June 19, 2025
Soapy Stennet, by the way, has been paid off by Dinky-Dunk and is moving on to the Knee-Hill country, where he says he can get good wages breaking and seeding. Soapy, of course, was a good man on the land, but I never took a shine to that hard-eyed Canuck, and we'll get along, in some way or other, without him. For, in the language of the noble Horatius, "I'll find a way, or make it!"
Then you knew the clerk by his pallor; the labourer by his hard hands; the employer by his manner of command. Now they were poilus bearded, hard-eyed veterans; you could not tell the clerk from the labourer or the employer from the peasant. Anyone who saw the tenderfoot pilgrimage to the Alaskan goldfield in '97-8 and the same crowd six months later will understand what had happened to these men.
See at close range, the nose of a dingy Ford protruded slightly in front of the enveloping cloud and behind it Casey Ryan, hard-eyed and with his jaw set to the fighting mood, gripped the wheel and drove as if he had a grudge against the road. At the first signpost Casey canted a malevolent eye upward and went lurching by at top speed.
Here sit the yellow-faced, sleepless, hard-eyed croupiers, spinning the fatal ball, and mechanically sweeping in with their rakes the piles of money staked and lost by the infatuated players. These are not limited to those seated at the table and who form but the front row. What a mixture they are!
This was no moment for tears; it was an hour to be Amazon. To be hard-eyed. To count the scalps brought home by the brave in delight to squeal over them; in pride to clap the hands and jump for joy at such big behaviour. My Mary erred in every way. Her moistening eyes annoyed George. "Oh, don't make a fuss about that, Mary," he cried irritably. "It's nothing.
And as she lay and wept, and remembered how many a time Edward had stood on her threshold and hastily, though gently, shut her door upon her, she realized what Edward meant to her, and what he was. Then she would rise and stand at her window, fingered and shaken by the autumn winds, and look up at the hard-eyed stars.
If Pancha had still cherished a hope that she might have been mistaken, the sight of Mayer's rage would have extinguished it. He made a step toward her, hard-eyed, pale as she was. "You're mad. That's what's the matter with you. I might have known it when you came. Now go I don't want any lunatics here." She stood her ground and tried to laugh, a horrible sound.
It was not honest money, although he had earned it honestly enough. If it had been honest money, why should those soldiers go riding through the valleys, looking for him and his plane? It was not for the pleasure of saying howdy, if Johnny might judge from the hard-eyed glances of that one who had stopped in plain view. It was not honest money that he had been taking.
They were a gaunt, hard-eyed, firm-jawed lot, marching with a peculiar cadence and swing which set all their muskets and buckles glittering at one moment, as though a thousand tiny mirrors had been turned to the light, then turned away.
The little boys, in whose thumbs lingers the weakness of the arboreal ape, their ancestor, and who "poke" their marbles, drink in eagerly the doctrine that when you win a marble you ought to give it back, but the hard-eyed fellows, who can plunk it every time, sit there and let it go in one ear and out the other, there being a hole drilled through expressly for the purpose. What?
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