Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardcase
Literary usage of Hardcase
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Ecclesiastical Law: The Law of Religious Societies, Church by Ransom Hebbard Tyler (1866)
"... for the trial of the said James hardcase, for an alleged violation of the
provisions of the revised statutes respecting the disturbance of religious ..."
2. New Essentials of Bookkeeping for Public Schools Single and Double Entry by C. W. Childs (1895)
"Henry hardcase died, insolvent, on the 6th inst., and Peter Tramp absconded on
the 7th. Sold Eva Hasty, on <$, a bill of Mdse., $30. Cash sales to-day, $58. ..."
3. Mississippi Scenes: Or, Sketches of Southern and Western Life and Adventure by Joseph Beckham Cobb (1851)
""No, I won't forget it, Mr. hardcase," replied his obsequious friend. Whilst this
sage controversy was going on, the allotted hour and a half of Capt. ..."
4. The Convention of Drunkards: A Satirical Essay on Intemperance ; to which by Charles Giles (1840)
"You know that I, Judge hardcase, was not born a poet; but it is with labour that
I keep my sentences in prose. It is possible that the cold 'water I drank ..."
5. Calendar of State Papers: Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth by Great Britain Public Record Office (1870)
"... move them the more, he may remember to them the hardcase of the Lady Margaret,
now in the Tower, whose wellbeing must depend upon their behaviour there. ..."
6. The Argo by Williams College (1885)
"That evening, while Fred Blessington and bis crony, Tom hardcase, were pacing
slowly up and down the platform of the ..."
7. The Whaleman's Adventures in the Sandwich Islands and California by William Henry Thomes (1882)
"Ah," muttered hardcase, " you may bet high that Joquin leads ... hardcase raised
his rifle, and let it rest for-a moment in the direction of the bushes. ..."
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