Use "hard-bitten" em uma frase

1. Somewhere, buried deep beneath the outer layers of his hard-bitten,

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2. But there were half a score of them, in full mail, hard-bitten veterans of the border wars, in whom the instinct for battle could take the place of bemused wits

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3. The five thousand horsemen who accompanied Valerius were hard-bitten Aquilonian renegades for the most part

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4. Having fallen on tough times, hard-bitten ex-con Nicolae Caramarin is lying low

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5. I wonder how many other hard-bitten, practical decisions have been made on just that sort of basis? And is it really such a bad way to do it? When it all comes down to a decision point you can’t avoid—when you have to choose, yet the evidence before your eyes disproves all the things you’ve ever believed and all the things you’ve ever believed say the evidence must be false—isn’t it the heart that matters? And if that young woman could rise above all the reasons she had to hate the House of Ahrmahk to give her allegiance to Cayleb and Sharleyan’s true cause, how could I not give it mine, as well?

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6. However low-ranked he might have been in the Empire’s nobility, Hywanlohng was a hard-bitten military professional who’d served for over a quarter century in the Imperial Harchongese Army before his assignment to the Mighty Host of God and the Archangels

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7. When Tommy accepted her estimate and gave her the order, Scarlett had not taken her departure speedily and meekly but had idled about, talking to Johnnie Gallegher, the foreman of the Irish workers, a hard-bitten little gnome of a man who had a very bad reputation

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