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The emphasis was helped by his square wall of a forehead, by his thin and hardset mouth, by his inflexible and dictatorial voice, and by the hair which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, as if the head had scarcely warehouse room for the hard facts stowed inside.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Of course there was another side to the picture, and there were times in his hardset and harassing life when even _his_ vivacity failed him.

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

The man hesitated, his eyes fixed on Festing's hardset face.

The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905

Sometimes we've been hardset to tell what he's drivin 'at.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

"Look yer, Minty," interrupted the blacksmith, sternly, half rising from his seat with every trace of his former weakness vanished from his hardset face; "do you mean to say that they put on airs to ye -- to MY darter?"

A Phyllis of the Sierras Bret Harte 1869

Apparently the previous admin hardset a smilie package of 200+ smilies .. so I get to go through and edit out the old local.

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a month to steal a march he was hardset to mumorise more than

Finnegans Wake 2006