1. faced a case-hardened judge
1. "Being repulsed continually hardened her,"
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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
2. "Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue."
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Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War
3. "My nipples hardened (traitorous little bitches) and my eyes widened."
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Joanna Wylde, Reaper's Stand
4. "Romans 9:17—How can Pharaoh be free if God hardened his heart?"
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Norman L. Geisler, A Popular Survey of the New Testament
5. "Evidently it took Catholic school to turn young kids into fearless, hardened apostates."
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William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
6. "Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress"
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Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
7. "All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments."
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John Calvin, Commentaries
8. "Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?"
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Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage
9. "I had a choice: to quail, or to harden. I hardened."
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Jeanne Kalogridis, The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
10. "It seemed that the years had softened her, or perhaps they'd hardened me"
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Cecilia Samartin, Vigil