hard-bitten

There was a lean, hard-bitten colonel of the American liaison force in Greece.

There was the usual jostling crowd of hard-bitten Earth miners, and of the metal people who come to lose their loneliness.

They were armed and he knew by their hard-bitten faces that it was another party of jumpers.

There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands.

I was going to add women, but then I thought of how hard-bitten little Alice would look beside the dream creatures I had in mind.

The hard-bitten tailor was easy to quarrel with at any time.

For Johnny Dromore had assuredly not seemed too happy, under all his hard-bitten air.

I think that his face was almost handsome, in a rough, hard-bitten way, and he was as hairy a man as I ever saw.

Their mounts were wiry, hard-bitten nags of medium height, and in good condition.

Trebell is hard-bitten, brainy, forty-five and very sure of himself.