hard wear
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For the most part, their clothes were plainly made and showed signs of hard wear.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
But she thrust this reflection away from her as selfish, and contrition for having harboured it found expression in a hand wrinkled and roughened by hard wear, which stole into Anastasia’s.
From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
Fancher and Gammons were feebler certainly, and a little more querulous with age, and their faded beards and rough hands gave pathetic evidence of the hard wear of wind and toil.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
Since binders receive very hard wear it is important that they should be made of good material.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
It cannot be regarded as an economical fur, as the pelt is too delicate to resist hard wear.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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