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There were some tough young saplings growing just outside of sufficient length for the proposed object; three of these were quickly cut, and being pointed were hardened in the fire, and then again scraped, till they became rather formidable weapons. "Don't you think Phil has slept long enough?" said Charley, who was anxious to make trial of his spear.
He came up and looked at old Mole and then turned away, evidently thinking the worthy tutor much too old, lean and tough for his dainty stomach; but when he caught sight of Jack and Harry, he showed more animation. Evidently they were more to his taste. "I mean to have a try for him," said Jack. "Do so, my boy. I shall make a sportsman of you yet, I see," observed Mole.
His rider swung him to a lower level, where under the tough cover had lain moist ground, on which uncovered water now glistened. He flung her into the mire of it, pulled up his horse there and himself lay down, full length, his blackened face in the moist mud above which still smoked stubbles of the flame-shorn grass. He had not spoken to her, nor she to him.
He struck the bar a resounding blow with his clenched hand. "But I ain't going to cave in till I has to!" "That's purty tough," sympathized Wood Wright, reflectively. "I ain't so very much taken with it, but I know I would be if I knowed I couldn't have any." "Yes, that's human nature, all right," laughed Lucas. "That reminds me of a little thing that happened to me once "
The crew of the lugger stood at their stations, ready at a moment to obey their captain's orders. He kept his eye on the topsails, though if blown away the accident would not be of much consequence. The masts were tough, and bent like willow wands. "They'll hold on as long as we want them now," observed Dore. Again and again he looked astern. Presently he shouted, "Lower the topsails!
He also desired for it a measure of his mother's calm and stately self-possession before the problems of life, and he had no objection that his son should reflect Miller Lyddon's many and amiable virtues. He returned home, and his mother presently bid him come to see Phoebe. Then a sudden nervousness overtook Will, tough though he was.
She goes down on her knees and holds the baby up, and tells me it ain't for her sake she's asking this it's for the bambino. And she calls on a lot of Italian saints that I never even heard the names of some of them before and so on, like that. It's pretty tough. "She's such a stupid, ignorant thing you can't help from feeling sorry for her nobody could."
They flowed from his lips, an acid stream. Pick and choose as I will, there is none that can be repeated here. Old Man Werner had, perhaps, been something of a tough guy himself, in his youth. As he reviled his son now you saw that son, at fifty, just such another stocking-footed, bitter old man, smoking a glum pipe on the back porch, summer evenings, and spitting into the fresh young grass.
Being a tough, open-air fellow, who was always as hard as a nail, it was seldom that there was anything amiss with him; but at last the drink began to tell, and he woke one morning with his hands shaking and all his nerves tingling like over-stretched fiddle-strings.
German emigrants returning after prosperous years to the Fatherland were often pounced upon, the validity of their American citizenship denied, and taxes and military service demanded. It was tough work to straighten out such knots and the Minister was in the midst of such a tangle.
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