hard-shell
Example Sentences
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Hard-shell lobsters are often shipped live, in cardboard or plastic boxes kept damp with, for example, wet newspaper.
From US News • Dec. 7, 2011
Hard-shell Conservative Columnist David Lawrence urged Ike to "get down to brass tacks and explain the issues."
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Patsy Butts, whose father, Elder Butts of the Hard-shell faith, owned a fertile little valley farm beyond the mountain, was organist.
From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood
And Catholic, Methodist, or Hard-shell Baptist, as suited his needs.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
The Methodists and Unitarians and Reformed Dutch and Campbellites and Hard-shell Baptists have different services too, but in the Episcopal churches things are all pretty much the same as they did this morning.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Stockton, Frank Richard
