hard-bitten

His gift for salty language impressed even the most hard-bitten grunts.

Hard-bitten conservatives might be relieved, then, to find their misgivings about the president reflected by the left as well.

Even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon.

But even the most hard-bitten Chicagoans have to see very good times on the horizon.

Along the rail, hard-bitten as the clippers men were, oaths broke out, and mutterings.

The police sergeant was a hard bitten looking customer, typical of his line in life.

I remember the long red wall of Hampton Court as the one warm feature of the hard-bitten landscape.

Into most eyes he looked down, for when he stood in his socks he was six feet two inches of hard-bitten sinew and man-flesh.

He had been the hard-bitten captain of a hard-bitten company, fighting Moros in the jungles of Mindanao.