He even gave them to the hardened men with whom he worked.

Just bits . . . human scraps from which hardened men turned their eyes.

It's enough to throw a hardened man off balance.

And the rest I banished it from my mind, affecting the attitude of the hardened Roman man or woman.

Professor Sheldon and his handful of hardened men had ducked under cover.

Looking away, the hardened young man gazed out across the ocean of sand that surrounded his small private island.

Between 1893 to 1899 Davies travelled the highways and railroads, tutored by hardened men of the road.

When the desert nomads stepped into the light, Ishmael saw lean, hardened men with eyes that were entirely blue.

The novel ends with Paul's father, a hardened, cynical man, seeing a fleeting hope for self-renewal and a purposeful life.

Pitt watched him shuffle across the hangar floor, a proud, hardened old man, battling his own private windmill.