Paganel, who knew fifty ways of dressing eggs, was obliged for this once to be content with simply hardening them on the hot embers.

Wouldn't it, perhaps, simply harden their attitudes against authority?

The arrow and the spear were not even tipped with iron, but the points were simply hardened in the fire.

The USS Indiana's armored plates used the Harvey process which simply hardened the facing of the steel plates.

Perhaps, as his wife believes, Mr. Kurchak was simply not hardened enough for America, a place Mrs. Kurchak regards warily.

Whatever she had done to alienate the Winds, their rebuke simply hardened her heart.

One pro-union Labour MP has just told me that he thinks Cameron's game will simply harden support for a yes vote in Scotland.

"The instinct of hatred was simply hardened into a doctrine that constituted the foundation of the new religious edifice," Mr. Netanyahu writes.

How the abused senses must harden simply to bear the experience.

If the Bush administration points the finger at China, it may simply harden Chinese opposition.