Use of the word toughened in a sentence example

toughened

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You and Kris toughened me up. [Please select]

They had slept but little the night before, and, toughened as they were by war, they had reached the limit of endurance. [Please select]

I've lived mostly in the saddle since I was seven or eight years old, but the war has toughened me just the same. [Please select]

All this time the weather was growing colder, and, toughened as the trappers had become by years of exposure, they suffered greatly. [Please select]

In the meantime, with every lengthening year, the friendship between Laurie and Ted toughened in fiber and became a closer bond. [Please select]

He checked himself, his weather-toughened skin reddening because he was afraid he had perhaps taken a liberty. [Please select]

At length, the toughened sinews of the white man prevailed over the less practiced limbs of the native. [Please select]

He ought to be toughened by sun and wind, rain and cold. [Please select]

I'm toughened up, I've had some good things knocked into me and a lot of fool things knocked out of me.' [Please select]

Therefore they set their faces hard, and toughened their hearts like knotted oak, against all that man could do to them. [Please select]

So the protest became an explanation that it was rather late for cress: the leaves toughened when it bloomed and were too peppery. [Please select]

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