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
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
The wall that guards one’s citadel of inner privacy needs, in a small town, to be built of strong stuff; it is subjected to hard wear.
From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards
Their texture is looser than that of the usual Oriental rug, and for this reason they cannot stand hard wear; but they are exceedingly handsome with their gold lustre and silky sheen.
From Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference by Rosa Belle Holt
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 Sir Owen Seaman
