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Значения термина hard-bitten на английском

Tough and callous by virtue of experience.

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The famously pugnacious, conservative judge had been a vote against the rule.
Wired
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A large, pugnacious-looking man on the left put in the first comment.
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
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The white-headed sea-eagle is a deadly foe to the pugnacious sea-serpent also.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Their dispositions are very different, the grey being fiercer and more pugnacious.
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier / Twelve Years Sporting Re...
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The pair were very pugnacious, attacking any birds coming near their nest.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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Of course heat will, as we know from hard-boiled yolks and custards.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
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Cut hard-boiled eggs in half the long way and remove the yolks.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
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Take yolk of one hard-boiled egg and rub smooth in a bowl.
The International Jewish Cook Book / 1600 Recipes According to t...
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Remember the grubs of the greenbottle, fed on hard-boiled white of egg.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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Break the shells from the hard-boiled eggs, and cover with this mixture.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
Использование термина hard-bitten на английском
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Shearson, which American Express acquired in 1981, was a hard-bitten retail-brokerage business.
The new yorker
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It was a moment to further age the hard-bitten souls in attendance.
The Guardian
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Three of the soldiers came ambling across the road, lean, hard-bitten men.
Knife of dreams
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A month later the gaunt, hard-bitten outfit tied up at the Landing.
The Gun-Brand
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Or a hard-bitten Taliban fighter who finds common cause with a rose?
The way of the world
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He was a fighter, a dominant, hard-bitten woodsman, so the tale ran.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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A more hard-bitten, intimidating gang you'd be hard pressed to gather anywhere.
Return of the Crimson Guard
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Most people, including hard-bitten promoters, reacted to the idea with revulsion and disgust.
The Irish Times
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Her remarkable performance has had hard-bitten London critics outdoing each other in superlatives.
The Irish Times
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All but the first disgorged armed, hard-bitten veterans, ten from each.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands.
South Sea Tales
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Carter's mild affect concealed hard-bitten ambition, flinty resolve and bulletproof self-assurance.
The Irish Times
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But a hard-bitten law enforcement guy like Gibbons could easily shrug it off.
You can't stop me
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Long Bill Hodge, the hard-bitten mountaineer, was the first man interrogated.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
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Frank, eyes aquamarine, face boozed-out purple, resembled a hard-bitten Buzz Aldrin.
Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
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It was a question designed to get a hard-bitten answer.
The Irish Times
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