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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hard as glass.

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Examples

  • But the creature, powerful as it was, could make no impression on that glass-hard surface.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • But the creature, powerful as it was, could make no impression on that glass-hard surface.

    "Undersea Prisoner" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010

  • The captives were not deceived; sinister warning was in those glass-hard eyes.

    "The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

  • ‘Terribly bright, this night,’ she mumbled to some dead flies that lay on the windowsill, swept some of them away with a grey and glass-hard little finger.

    Archive 2009-10-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Where the light-blade had passed, white ashes swirled and drifted snowlike, falling on the clay beside the road, on the glass-hard melted stone of the road itself, and across the glassy parts of the shoulder that had once been sand.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • Where the light-blade had passed, white ashes swirled and drifted snowlike, falling on the clay beside the road, on the glass-hard melted stone of the road itself, and across the glassy parts of the shoulder that had once been sand.

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • Alpine weather, Wexford called it, frozen snow sparkling, melting a little in the only to freeze glass-hard again when the went down.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

  • An hour later they dropped from the plain, down through a gutter-like gully to the river, where they found a trail, glass-hard beneath its downy covering.

    The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Antenna gate is the bane to their existance, however the metal back that is being brandied about may have a non-conductive annodization plating - which would provide a glass-hard, yet non-conductive finish.

    Geek.com 2010

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