As he put on pressure the line tightened into sudden hardness and beyond the logs a huge trout went high out of water.

Meg asked, looking at Ben, a sudden hardness in her face.

He touched a sudden hardness that rolled against a bone and dug it out with the spoon.

Peter saw the sudden hardness in his eyes.

Then she felt it, that sudden hardness against her hip, and with a thrill she realized what it was.

It was," he added, with a sudden hardness in his voice, "one of the things which made him so dangerous.

The only sign of astonished recognition was a sudden hardness of the flat cold eyes.

Gaspard demanded, a sudden hardness in his voice.

His fingers caught at her nipples and tugged them to sudden hardness.

It's nothing visible or tangible, his face almost the same as before ... but she's aware of a sudden hardness.