hard-necked

Updated: May 12, 2025

The Connistons of Darlington were his uncle and aunt, and his uncle was a more or less prominent figure in ship-building interests on the Clyde. With these people the three himself, Mary Josephine, and his brother Egbert had lived, "farmed out" to a hard-necked, flinty-hearted pair of relatives because of a brother's stipulation and a certain English law.

James Oliver Curwood - The River's End