hard wear
Example Sentences
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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
As always, he was impeccably clad, though his stout boots showed the usage of recent hard wear.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
The virtues of this material are much appreciated by experienced hunting women for hard wear.
From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace)
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 Falkner, John Meade
His Imperial master's pocket-companion takes the form of a copy of Mr. Frank Richardson's There and Back, which we learn is already beginning to show signs of hard wear.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
