Hardened Sentence Examples

If the bar inserted into the coil is of hardened steel instead of iron, the magnetism will be less intense, but a larger proportion of it will be retained after the current has been cut off.

They must be well hardened off before being set out in the open.

The surface of the glass was hardened, but the inner layers remained in unstable equilibrium.

Oil hardened and annealed, magnified 50 diameters.

When the load on a hardened wire is gradually increased, the maximum value of I is found to correspond with a greater stress than when the load is gradually diminished, this being an effect of hysteresis.

That the ancients should have discovered an art of hardening bronze is grossly improbable, first because it is not to be hardened by any simple process like the hardening of steel, and second because, if they had, then a large proportion of the ancient bronze tools now known ought to be hard, which is not the case.

Because iron would be so easily made by prehistoric and even by primeval man, and would be so useful to him, we are hardly surprised to read in Genesis that Tubal Cain, the sixth in descent from Adam, discovered it; that the Assyrians had knives and saws which, to be effective, must have been of hardened steel, i.e.

But this change may be prevented so as, to preserve the austenite in the cold, either very incompletely, as when high-carbon steel is " hardened," i.e.

Austenite may contain carbon in any proportion up to about 2.2 It is non-magnetic, and, when preserved in the cold either by quenching or by the presence of manganese, nickel, &c., it has a very remarkable combination of great malleability with very marked hardness, though it is less hard than common carbon steel is when hardened, and probably less hard than martensite.

He hardened his heart against the senator who was introducing this set and narrow attitude into the deliberations of the nobility.

The dark eyes softened, even reflected shame — and then they hardened.

As the summer of 1806 wore on, his policy perceptibly hardened.

It consists of a heavy cast-iron platform (a) mounted on four steel balls (b) which run in V guides of hardened steel.

They also undergo cutting up by numerous septa into short cells, and these often divide again in all planes, so that a pseudoparenchyma results, the walls of which may be thickened and swollen internally, or hardened and black on the exterior.

But the invaluable and rather delicate art of tempering the hardened steel by a very careful and gentle reheating, which removes its extreme brittleness though leaving most of ifs precious hardness, needs such skilful handling that it can hardly have become known until very long after the art of hot-forging.

Carbon-Content of Hardened Steels.-Turning from these cases in which the steel is used in the slowly cooled state, so that it is a mixture of pearlite with ferrite or cementite, i.e.

This brittleness has therefore in general to be mitigated or " tempered," unfortunately at the cost of losing part of the hardness proper, by reheating the hardened steel slightly,

Chrome steel, which usually contains about 2% of chromium and o 80 to 2% of carbon, owes its value to combining, when in the " hardened " or suddenly cooled state, intense hardness with a high elastic limit, so that it is neither deformed permanently nor cracked by extremely violent shocks.

These are made of alternate layers of soft wrought iron and chrome steel hardened by sudden cooling.

The hardness of the hardened chrome steel resists the burglar's drill, and the ductility of the wrought iron the blows of his sledge.

The impact face of these plates is given the intense hardness needed by being converted into high-carbon steel, and then hardened by sudden cooling.

In some leaves, as in the barberry, the veins are hardened, producing spines without any parenchyma.

By a deficiency in development of parenchyma and an increase in the mechanical tissue, leaves are liable to become hardened and spinescent.

Pompeii was merely covered with a bed of lighter substances, cinders, small stones and ashes, which fell in a dry state, while at Herculaneum the same substances, being drenched with water, hardened into a sort of tuf a, which in places is 65 ft.

They carried double-edged swords and short daggers for use hand to hand, the steel of which was hardened b y being buried underground; their defensive armour was a light Gallic shield or a round wicker buckler, and greaves of felt round their legs.

Hardened caoutchouc and wares thereof,.

The eggs, in several layers, are laid near the top. The adults frequently dig long subterranean passages into the banks of streams, and, during dry seasons, they have been found deep in the hardened mud, whence they emerge with the beginning of the rains.

Quicklime mixed with white of egg, hardened Canada balsam, and thick copal or mastic varnish are also useful for cementing broken china, which should be warmed before their application.

The hounds must have first of all walking, then trotting and fast exercise, so that their feet may be hardened, and all superfluous fat worked off by the last week in August.

By other methods of treatment, known to the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and others, but now forgotten, it could be hardened and formed into knife and razor edges of the utmost keenness.

A sheet of metal set revolving at a high speed in a lathe is bent over into cup-shaped forms, with numerous mouldings, by a blunt hardened tool.

Great advances have been made in the utilization of this property as a result of the growth of the precision grinding-machines, which are able to correct the inaccuracies of hardened work as effectually as those of soft materials.

A special class was formed in 1880, in which all convicts "not versed in crime," first offenders and comparatively innocent men, are now kept apart from the older and more hardened criminals.

But the work is too arduous to allow of long and desultory conversation; the chance of contamination is now minimized by the careful separation of the less hardened from the old offenders.

Imprisonment was not sufficiently deterrent to the habitual criminal class, and small attention was paid to the reclamation of less hardened offenders.

As a result, cult and organization and code hardened, forming a shell which proved strong enough to resist all disintegrating tendencies.

To make the teeth of a pair of endless screws fit correctly and work smoothly, a hardened steel screw is made of the figure of the smaller screw, with its thread or threads notched so as to form a cutting tool; the larger screw, or wheel, is cast approximately of the required figure; the larger screw and the steel screw are fitted up in their proper relative position, and made to rotate in contact with each other by turning the steel screw, which cuts the threads of the larger screw to their true figure.

Washington's retreat through New Jersey; the manner in which he turned and struck his pursuers at Trenton and Princeton, and then established himself at Morristown, so as to make the way to Philadelphia impassable; the vigour with which he handled his army at the Brandywine and Germantown; the persistence with which he held the strategic position of Valley Forge through the dreadful winter of 1777-1778, in spite of the misery of his men, the clamours of the people and the impotence and meddling of the fugitive Congress - all went to show that the fibre of his public character had been hardened to its permanent quality.

The skull, which must have consisted of hardened cartilage, exhibits pairs of nasal and auditory capsules, with a gill-apparatus below its hinder part, but no indications of ordinary jaws.

This takes place in seven to ten days, but the bags are left for four to six weeks until the oil remaining on the opium has become oxidized and hardened.

The lines were frequently made by pressing a twisted thong of skin against the moist clay; the patterns in all cases being stamped into the pot before it was hardened by fire.

The common material for re ceiving the impressions from the matrices was beeswax, generally strengthened and hardened by admixture with other substances, such as resin, pitch and even hemp and hair.

To the south-west of the picturesque belts of palm trees which stretch inland from the northern coast of Bahrein, is a wide space of open sandy plain filled with gigantic tumuli or earth mounds, of which the outer layers of gravel and clay have been hardened by the weather action of centuries to the consistency of conglomerate.

The houses are built of hardened mud, with doors and roof of palm wood.

The colonization of the eastern provinces and the struggle against the Sla y s necessitated a stronger concentration of aristocratic power, and the reception of Roman law during the 5th and 16th centuries hardened the forms of subjection originated by customary conditions.

When constructed for purposes of extreme accuracy they will turn with the one-millionth part of the load weighed, though to ensure such a result the knife-edges and their bearings must be extremely hard (either hardened steel or agate) and worked up with great care.

These young, or larvae as they are called, after the integument has hardened by exposure to the air, climb up the stalks of grain or herbage and cling with outstretched legs waiting for passing animals.

Other epidermic appendages are the horns of ruminants and rhinoceroses - the former being elongated, tapering, hollow caps of hardened epidermis of fibrous structure, fitting on and growing from conical projections of the frontal bones and always arranged in pairs, while the latter are of similar structure, but without any internal bony support, and situated in the middle line.

Callosities, or bare patches covered with hardened and thickened epidermis, are found on the buttocks of many apes, the breast of camels, the inner side of the limbs of Equidae, the grasping under-surface of the tail of prehensile-tailed monkeys, opossums; &c. The greater part of the skin of the onehorned Asiatic rhinoceros is immensely thickened and stiffened by an increase of the tissue of both the skin and epidermis, constituting the well-known jointed " armour-plated " hide of those animals.

There may well be room for relative distinctions in any system of thought, however coherent; but it looks as if Ritschl's distinction hardened into absolute dualism.

For the Lollards were hardened by persecution, and became fanatical in the statement of their doctrines.

The microspores are united by means of hardened protoplasm into one or more masses, while the solitary megaspores have a more or less complicated episporium.

Their knives are of bamboo hardened by fire.

The generally one-seeded nut-like fruit is associated with the persistent often hardened or greatly enlarged bracts forming the so-called cupule which gives the name to the group. The group is subdivided as follows, and these subdivisions are now generally regarded either as distinct natural orders or the first two as sub-orders of one natural order.

Moreover, he was doubtless well acquainted with a very ancient tradition, that heroes generally came from the northern frontiers of their native land, where they are hardened and tempered by the threefold struggle they wage with soil, climate and barbarian neighbours.

When the milk-like juice (" spuma pinguis," Pliny) which exudes has hardened by exposure to the atmosphere, the incision is deepened.

Forged by war and hardened by exile to the bowels of Hell, Darkyn understood only violence, war and bloodlust.

She sensed the unseen scars of war and strife, the price of Anshan's struggle, buried deep beneath the surface of the hardened man before her.

The dark eyes softened, even reflected shame — and then they hardened.

She saw the wounded look a fraction of a moment before the Black God hardened.

The cockpit doors of every large passenger airplane that flies in the United States have been hardened.

The working surfaces of this top quality anvil have been specially hardened to protect against wear.

The deafening applause that greeted the band back on stage for the encore was enough to impress the most hardened industry big-wig.

The standard collets could be used when stub milling was undertaken - and the horizontal arbor was provided with hardened and ground spacers.

How do you think they can penetrate a steel hardened bunker with a bomb unit?

Socket is manufactured from chrome vanadium steel hardened tempered and chrome vanadium steel hardened tempered and chrome plated.

This course introduces delegates to the new terminology that applies to familiar properties of fresh and hardened concrete.

It uses the Li type con rod with a stepped crankpin of 20mm and wasn't hardened.

Actually, the more you can look and talk like a hardened criminal, the higher your chances of being a hit.

To hardened cynics, it may all seem a little idealistic.

I'm quite a hardened cynic when direct mail drops through my door.

Liver disease is no longer associated with elderly and hardened drinkers.

All gears were machined from drop forgings and their shafts hardened and ground.

The cerebral cortexes of older folk are too hardened up to let such frippery in.

Our top of the range stainless steel coffee mill uses hardened, tempered conical burr grinders with over twenty settings.

At an earlier stage in the story we were told that Pharaoh hardened his heart.

Knives are made as a single piece of forged stainless steel especially hardened to maintain a cutting edge.

The gears were all hobbed from the solid, shaved, induction hardened and honed to produce the correct tooth form.

David O'Leary's babies were rapidly turning into battle hardened European warriors.

Environmentally hardened, the Alcatel 1692 OPS modules can be placed in uncontrolled enclosures.

Over time, more and more layers of sediment built up and gradually hardened into rock.

The surface of products placed on the film is quickly hardened to a depth of around 1mm.

When fully hardened sand to open up the grain and stain or paint to match.

The first soil has a heart that is so hardened that it is no longer able to hear the Word at all.

The blade cuts the adhesive caulking compound around the windscreen using the specially hardened carbon steel blade.

The films are at once hardened, philosophical, passionate and darkly subdued.

The lack of industrially hardened components and connectors has exacerbated this.

Editors were becoming hardened, only a few of the best reports got any space.

Parliament was deaf; the Press, with but few exception, was callous; the public conscience seemed hardened as a nether millstone.

They had the choice to remain hardened, or to turn from their sins unto God.

Hal's theory, which he practiced on others, was that one must get hardened.

And rarely do they try very hard to avoid our high-powered hardened steel harpoons.

No, God hardened Pharaoh's heart for His purposes to be fulfilled.

Na pali coast hardened lava a quarter mile away.

Perhaps, notwithstanding the limited votes we polled last week, our prophetic message is getting through the hardened skins of the pro-abortion lobby.

Specimens are loaded in compression between flat, parallel hardened steel platens with recesses to reduce lateral movement of the specimen.

Their structure undergoes no changes when they are rapidly quenched at high temperature, that is to say, they cannot be hardened.

Massive pre-glued 16cm diameter tire mounted on hardened chrome rims.

The vest had dried up milk down the front that had hardened making the vest rub up a rash on A's tummy.

I then saw out two aircraft from their HAS (hardened aircraft shelter) which were undertaking a training sortie.

Supplied in pairs complete with hardened steel socket cap style mounting screws and stainless steel bearing shims.

It also softens and moisturizes hardened skin of the elbows.

She reveals how the clothes can define a character, giving the example of Algren's rise from drunken slob to hardened warrior.

The headstock bearings were plain and the hardened spindle capable of sustained high speeds with great reliability.

They are made of hardened steel, with a double compound curve and the moose bar is a must for those using moose inserts.

Calculus, sometimes called tartar, is hardened calcified plaque.

Their hardened steel spring tines aerate the soil at the same time.

All alloy heads feature hardened seat inserts and should be capable of running unleaded, but double check with the supplier first.

The game's protagonist is Nikki Connors, a hardened (yet surprisingly voluptuous) military type.

Most hikers complete maui hardened workaholics on a single island feet of space.

The oprichniki, as being the exclusive favourites of the tsar, naturally, in their own interests, hardened the tsar's heart against all outsiders, and trampled with impunity upon every one beyond the charmed circle.

The pupa either shows the appendages of the perfect insect, though these are encased in a sheath and adherent to the body, or else it is entirely concealed within the hardened and contracted larval integument, which forms a barrel-shaped protecting capsule or puparium.

The Quakerism of this period was largely of a traditional kind; it dwelt with increasing emphasis on the peculiarities of its dress and language; it rested much upon discipline, which developed and hardened into rigorous forms; and the correction or exclusion of its members occupied more attention than did the winning of converts.

He became, and could not but become, a persecutor in and out of Spain; and his persecutions not only hardened the obstinacy of the Dutch, and helped to exasperate the English, but they provoked a revolt of the Moriscoes, which impoverished his kingdom.

The earth surface above these natural furnaces has been hardened, cracked and sometimes melted into a reddish slag, called scoria, which, on account of its resemblance to lava, has given rise to an incorrect impression that the region was once the centre of volcanic disturbances.

In 1750 Dr Gowan Knight found that the needles of merchant-ships were made of two pieces of steel bent in the middle and united in the shape of a rhombus, and proposed to substitute straight steel bars of small breadth, suspended edgewise and hardened throughout.

Lecanora crassa, Lecidea decipiens), others sandy soil or hardened mud (e.g.

After this carburizing these objects are usually hardened by quenching in cold water (see § 28).

Much of the heavy side armour of war-vessels (see Armourplate) is made of nickel steel initially containing so little carbon that it cannot be hardened, i.e.

It emphasized the excellence of the system devised in 1879 for the segregation of the comparatively innocent from convicts hardened in crime.

Prins, the chief of the prison department, who has protested that to hope the vicious, hardened offender, after a long detention, "surrounded with every attention, soaked with good counsel, will leave his cell regenerated," is a Utopian dream.

A feral being with scant regard for the feelings of others, he has hardened himself against any feelings of compassion.

She reveals how the clothes can define a character, giving the example of Algren 's rise from drunken slob to hardened warrior.

Industrial and suffragette action increased, while divisions in Ireland hardened, leading to the Easter Uprising and its bitter consequences.

The game 's protagonist is Nikki Connors, a hardened (yet surprisingly voluptuous) military type.

Once the candles are hardened, remove them from the cutter or mold.

Season Shot (ammo with flavor) is hardened pellets of various seasonings that will melt while your game bird is being cooked.

When the young plants are well up they should be placed out of doors to get thoroughly hardened before being finally planted out.

Seed should be sown about the middle of February in pans or boxes in heat; the seedlings should be transplanted into boxes in soil not over-rich, and after being gradually hardened off they should be planted out about the end of May.

If the foam becomes fully hardened and cured on the surface, mechanical removal will be required.

People not only drink the beverage, but also eat the hardened culture itself.

During the fight scenes, movement became hardened and sluggish and it was hard to tell where you were since the camera moved for you.

Preventative services that the dentist can perform include fluoride treatments, sealant application, and scaling (scraping off the hardened plaque, called tartar).

In dentistry, calculus refers to a hardened yellow or brown mineral deposit from unremoved plaque, also called tartar.

Tartar-A hardened yellow or brown mineral deposit from unremoved plaque.

A related term, spina bifida occulta, indicates that one or more of the bony bodies in the spine are incompletely hardened, but that there is no abnormality of the spinal cord itself.

Calcification-A process in which tissue becomes hardened due to calcium deposits.

The doctor uses his fingers to see if there is a hardened mass in the abdomen and may perform a rectal examination.

If a child has an impacted bowel, the doctor can insert a gloved finger into the rectum and gently dislodge the hardened feces.

The fetus's bones are developed but not yet hardened.

When this material has hardened, it may be filled with plaster, plastic, or artificial stone to make an exact model of the teeth.

In vitamin D deficiency, though, calcium is not available to create hardened bone, and the result is soft bone.

Combing your hair through while it contains hardened gel is also likely to cause hair breakage.

After the wax has partially hardened and formed a skin, add wicks to candle molds.

Once the gel wax has hardened, add a "topping" of whipped candle wax, scented with vanilla, to look like a scoop of ice cream on top.

Just be sure to scrape off any hardened wax chunks first.

To make your own bamboo skirt purchase strips of hardened bamboo and cut to two-inch lengths.

This natural product is made from the hardened sap of two species of the acacia tree.

All she'll end up doing is scorching poor earth until his resolve is hardened like steel.

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that just knocks the socks off its audience and makes even the most hardened critics stand up and take notice.

These true tales chill even the most hardened skeptic.

This is perhaps the only way to convince hardened skeptics that ghosts really exist.

Others will spook even the most hardened skeptics, such as true ghost stories.

Some tribes used hardened rawhide to construct a more durable sole, and often rabbit fur or sheepskin was used as a lining for extra warmth.

He would give devoted priests the power to soften the most hardened hearts.

The dial is denim blue and features a hardened mineral crystal and index-style indicators.

A super hardened mineral crystal provides the perfect topping for a multifunctional timepiece.

These molds are basically wooden boxes without a top, usually with hinged sides so that you can open the box up and easily slide the soap out once it has cured and hardened.

Once your soap has set up in the molds and hardened, it is ready to be used.

Once it has hardened, it can be used as is or cut into smaller bars.

Large portobello mushrooms obtain a rich, meaty texture that can fool even the most hardened carnivore into thinking he's biting into a juicy bit of meat.

What was before a fudgey sauce is now a hardened truffle center that you can scoop into balls using a melon baller.

Ask even hardened fans of the genre for a definition of garage rock, and you're bound to get some conflicting answers.

From G's to Gents is an elimination-style reality show that focuses on giving these hardened, self-absorbed, or brutish men a second chance to clean up their act.

The former ensign is now Captain Chekov until a shift to an alternate timeline presents him as a hardened freedom fighter willing to sacrifice everything.

While regular nail polish may be completely hardened in one to two hours, natural polishes may take a minimum of several hours to fully harden.

From the first hardened canvas helmets the company has produced leather, steel, fiberglass, and most recently thermoplastic for their hard hats.

His design used hardened quarter-inch leather, reinforcing the eight segments and adding a wide bill on the back to keep water (and other debris) from going down a firefighter's back.

His gaze hardened and his brows lifted.

It was the general disaster produced by the speculative policy of his former guardians which first called forth his sterling qualities and hardened him into a premature manhood.

The regent was alienated from the popular leaders, and was no longer disposed to help William of Orange, Egmont, and Hoorn to secure a mitigation of religious persecution; and the heart of Philip was hardened in its resolve to exterminate heresy in the Netherlands.

The Falkland Islands consist entirely, so far as is known, of the older Palaeozoic rocks, Lower Devonian or Upper Silurian, slightly metamorphosed and a good deal crumpled and distorted, in the low grounds clay slate and soft sandstone, and on the ridges hardened sandstone passing into the conspicuous white quartzites.

In the Cyclorrhapha on the other hand, in which the actual pupa is concealed within the hardened larval skin, the imago escapes through a circular orifice formed by pushing off or through the head end of the puparium.

The regions of this cuticle have a markedly segmental arrangement, and the definite hardened pieces (sclerites) of the exoskeleton are in close contact with one another along linear sutures, or are united by regions of the cuticle which are less chitinous and more membranous, so as to permit freedom of movement.

Pupa incompletely obtect or free, and enclosed in the hardened cuticle of the last larval instar (puparium).

The solidification is a very gradual process, depending, of course, for its completion on the size of the block; but before cutting into bars it is essential that the whole should be set and hardened through and through, else the cut bars would not hold together.

Nay more, the Gentile Christians took possession of them, and just in proportion as they were neglected by the Jews - who, after the war of Bar-Cochba, became indifferent to the Messianic hope and hardened themselves once more in devotion to the law - they were naturalized in the Christian communities.

These horns, which are of a more or less conical form and usually recurved, and often grow to a great length (three or even four feet), are composed of a solid mass of hardened epidermic cells growing from a cluster of long dermal papillae.

Most articles made of cut sheet rubber would, however, be of very limited utility were they not hardened or vulcanized by the action of sulphur or some compound of that element.

Rubber hardened by over-vulcanization is largely manufactured under the name of ebonite or vulcanite.

Magnetism may be imparted to a bar of hardened steel by stroking it several times from end to end, always in the same direction, with one of the poles of a magnet.

When it is mechanically hardened by hammering, rolling or wire-drawing its permeability may be greatly diminished, especially under a moderate magnetizing force.

These high values render hardened tungsten-steel particularly suitable for the manufacture of permanent magnets.

This masterly winter-campaign first revealed Gdrgei's military genius, and the discipline of that terrible month of marching and counter-marching had hardened his recruits into veterans whom his country regarded with pride and his country's enemies with respect.

When hardened in spirit, however, the greater part of this experimental amyloid in the fowl vanishes, and the reactions are not forthcoming.

He was sober enough (for his day and society) in eating and drinking generally; but drank coffee, as his contemporary, counterpart and enemy, Johnson, drank tea, in a hardened and inveterate manner.

By repeated passages through the rolls the bars are hardened, and to facilitate further reduction they are usually softened by annealing before being passed to the finishing rolls.

The Senonian series is represented by the White Limestone, a hardened chalk with flints, which is often glauconitic and conglomeratic at the base.

In other words, the somewhat vague sense of spiritual power and impressiveness hardened into the conception of sacred books united in a sacred volume.

The cuticle may be locally or generally hardened, in the latter case being termed a lorica.

Loricata, cuticle hardened armour-like, often sculptured; Polyarthra Ehr.; Pedetes Gosse; Euchlanis Ehr.

In this liver, which was hardened in situ, the impressions of the sacculations of the colon are distinctly visible at the colic impression.

It is much employed for house-building; most of the picturesque log-houses in Vaud and the adjacent cantons are built of squared larch trunks, and derive their fine brown tint from the hardened resin that slowly exudes from the wood after long exposure to the summer sun; the wooden shingles, that in Switzerland supply the place of tiles, are also frequently of larch.

The larvae are killed and hardened by steeping some hours in strong acetic acid; the silk glands are then separated from the bodies, and the vis cous fluid drawn out to the condition of a fine uniform line, which is stretched between pins at the extremity of a board.

Though cherishing a strong antipathy to the received ecclesiastical formulas, Irving's great aim was to revive the antique style of thought and sentiment which had hardened into these formulas, and by this means to supplant the new influences, the accidental and temporary moral shortcomings of which he detected with instinctive certainty, but whose profound and real tendencies were utterly beyond the reach of his conjecture.

Many of these old soft initial consonants which are now hardened in the modern dialects are preserved in classical Tibetan, i.e.

The old language seems to have pronounced prefixes extensively which in modern pronunciation in central Tibet are largely lost, whilst the soft initials have become aspirated or hardened and tones have developed, and in the west and east, where prefixes and soft initials have been preserved, there are no tones.

Some, such as victoria stone, imperial stone and others, are hardened and rendered non-porous after manufacture by immersion in a solution of silicate of soda.

The doctrine of conditional immortality taught by Socinianism was accepted by Archbishop Whately, and has been most persistently advocated by Edward White, who "maintains that immortality is a truth, not of reason, but of revelation, a gift of God" bestowed only on believers in Christ; but he admits a continued probation after death for such as have not hardened their hearts by a rejection of Christ.

Strips of turf are sometimes used for the rearing of early peas, which are sown in a warmish house or frame, and gradually hardened so as to bear exposure before removal to the open air.

All the plants must be hardened off gradually during the month of April, and may generally be planted out some time in May, earlier or later according to the season.

The class of tender annuals, being chiefly grown for greenhouse decoration, should be treated much the same as soft-wooded plants, being sown in spring, and grown on rapidly in brisk heat, near the glass, and finally hardened off to stand in the greenhouse when in flower.

Shy plants should be given gentle bottom heat to induce growth, which should be gently hardened by exposure under cooler conditions.

The young plants are kept under glass till early in June when they are hardened and put out.

The softened expression on Romas's face-- only present for her-- hardened as he prepared himself to deal with whichever of his warriors had happened upon Kiera.

The store hadn't done $500 in business the past month by the looks of things, and the two hardened robbers sounded like kids.

The living elements die, and the walls of all the cells often become hardened, owing to the deposit in them of special substances.

The remarkable " stone reefs " of the north-east coast are ancient beaches hardened by the infiltration of carbonate of lime.

When hardened in situ its shape is that of a right-angled, triangular prism showing five surfaces - superior, anterior, inferior, posterior and right lateral which represents the base of the prism.

In other cases the strands undergo differentiation into an outer layer with blackened, hardened cell-walls and a core of ordinary hyphae, and are then termed rhizomorphs (Armillaria mellea), capable not only of extending the fungus in the soil, like roots, but also of lying dormant, protected by the outer casing.

In hardened iron and steel the effect can scarcely be detected, and in weak fields these metals exhibit no magnetic hysteresis of any kind.

The truth appears to be that a hardened steel rod generally behaves like one of iron or soft steel in first undergoing extension under increasing magnetizing force, and recovering its original length when the force has reached a certain critical value, beyond which there is contraction.

It showed him in battle, his hardened body moving with unearthly speed and agility against enemies that were obscured.

Her eyes skimmed over both, and she hardened herself to the cries of the hurt as she continued forward.