hardbitten

Who has not heard the process repeated over and over again from the young fledgeling Counsel to the old "hardbitten" and experienced K.C.?

Bardell v. Pickwick Charles Dickens 1841

There's an attempt to create a frisson between the hardbitten veteran Miles and fast-tracked DI Chandler, though if this is "chemistry", someone's forgotten to switch on the Bunsen burners.

Whitechapel: David Stubbs's TV OD 2012

Thus when the new IDF – as opposed to the hardbitten Holocaust surviving Irgun, Stern and Hagganah militias – took control of the new territories, they forgot their Tacitus.

Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel 2009

That includes the hardbitten man-of-few words Cullen Bohannon Anson Mount, a Confederate soldier on a murderous mission of vengeance to track down the members of Sherman's army who raped and killed his wife.

Tales of the Old West and Aging Spies Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

Stock Illustration Source/Getty Images Frame around book inside book of rural road The novel is set shortly after the Great War, and Gil has been hired by a hardbitten Texas rancher named Lamar Clayton to make a statue of Clayton's son, Ben, who was killed in the trenches in France.

The Rancher & the Sculptor Sam Sacks 2011

Thus when the new IDF – as opposed to the hardbitten Holocaust surviving Irgun, Stern and Hagganah militias

Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel 2009

William Kennedy's novels of Depression-era Albany, N.Y., and Raymond Carver's hardbitten tales of the Northwest which was being celebrated at the time.

His Life Was Some Serious Books 2010

But reviewer was very wrong – at the time that series was set, Fraser was a young non-com in Burma, leading hardbitten North-of-England infantrymen against murderous Japanese troops.

George Macdonald Fraser, R. I. P. 2008

But reviewer was very wrong – at the time that series was set, Fraser was a young non-com in Burma, leading hardbitten North-of-England infantrymen against murderous Japanese troops.

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One of the biggest holes ever dug by man, the pit is visible from space and is even reputed to influence the weather in Kalgoorlie, the hardbitten town crouched on its rim.

Australia Mining Pit, Visible From Space, Threatens To Swallow Town 2010