"Toughen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... physical. But will-culture for boys is rarely as thorough as it should be without more or less flogging. I would not, of course, urge the extremes of the past. The Spartan beating as a gymnastic drill to toughen, the severity which prevailed in Germany for a long time after its Thirty Years' Wars,[2] the former fashion in many English schools of walking up not infrequently to take a flogging as a plucky thing ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... his tone. "I'll show him they're making as good men now as they did when he was a kid." He laughed, a raucous, short laugh, an old man's laugh, which choked in a cigarette cough and made a mockery of mirth. "I'll toughen up out here and have better wind for the big finish when I sit in on the old ...
— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden
... marquis and Louison and I. The first two went on ahead of us; we rode slowly, and for a time no word was spoken. Winds had stripped the timber, and swept its harvest to the walls and hollows, where it lay bleaching in the sun. Birch and oak and maple were holding bared arms to the wind, as if to toughen them for storm and stress. I felt a mighty sadness, wondering if my own arms were quite seasoned for all that was to come. The merry-hearted girl beside me was ever like a day of June—the color of the rose in her cheek, its odor always in her hair ...
— D'Ri and I • Irving Bacheller
... "I've washed her in colder water lots of times. The Sunshine Lady said I should, to toughen her up." ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... Riehl uses a liquid wax, resin and beeswax without the coloring matter. We use the coloring matter to toughen the wax. ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various |
