10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD-BITTEN»
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hard-bitten in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hard-bitten and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
Meet Merit, a "wonderfully compelling vampire heroine" (USA Today bestselling author Julie Kenner).
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
hard-bitten. intently, critically, carefully, keenly, searchingly, earnestly, sharply.
antonyms casually. – phrases hard and fast get used to it—the curfew here is
hard and fast: definite, fixed, set, strict, rigid, binding, clear-cut, cast-iron, ironclad;
...
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
OCompare paperback: softback hardball /'ha:d.bo:l/ ® /'ha:rd.ba:l/ noun [U] us for
baseball OCompare Softball hard-bitten /1ha:d'brt.°n/ ® /,ha:rd'bit-/ adjective If
someone is hard-bitten, their character has been made stronger as a result of ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
hard-bitten (inf) (of people) tough; toughened by experience; stubborn: She's
become really hard-bitten since her divorce. [Originally a term applied to dogs,
meaning 'biting hard'.] hard-boiled (inf) unfeeling and not influenced by emotion:
It ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
The. hard-bitten. old. pro. who. wrote. 'Cotton'. Chester Himes, Cotton's, author, is
a tough, hardbitten writer of the old school — a grizzled old pro whose first literary
model was Dashiell Ham- mett and who is now writing some of the toughest, ...
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Conversations with Chester Himes
The. Hard-Bitten. Old. Pro. Who. Wrote. "Cotton". Cashes. In. Rudolph.
Chelminski. /. 1970. From: Life 69 (August 28, 1970), pp. 58-61. Reprinted with
permission. Hollywood has finally cottoned on. The amazing success of the wild
detective ...
Michel Fabre, Robert E. Skinner, 1995
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Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia
“A. Hard-Bitten. Lot”. Nonstrike Violence in the Early Southern West Virginia
Smokeless Coalfields, 1880–1910 Paul H. Rakes and Kenneth R. Bailey A
typical Saturday-night payday crowd had gathered in James Collins's sa- loon.
Yet, as too ...
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
About a reformed criminal, the play represented Armstrong's specialty:
melodramas of the underworld featuring hard-bitten, slangy crime characters with
hearts of gold. Armstrong's greatest stage successes were melodramas that fit
two ...
Lawrence O. Christensen, William E. Foley, Gary Kremer, 1999
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Mean Streets: Confessions of a Nighttime Taxi Driver
Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada's largest city.
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100 Baddest Mother F*#!ers in Comics
Meet the bad asses, the tough guys, the guys you don't want to make mad. These are the guys you'd want to have backing you up in a fight. And these are the guys who make bad so much fun.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD-BITTEN»
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hard-bitten is used in the context of the following news items.
MLB Midseason Awards: Picks for MVP, Cy Young and more …
"He's Mickey Mantle. That's who he is, Mickey Mantle,” raved one hard-bitten old scout. Yes, at this point we are all on board. Best of the rest: 2. «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
Does NATO Have What It Takes To Counter Russia? - ValueWalk
The U.S. and NATO must act more hard-bitten if the only thing Putin respects is power and military might. NATO must direct its missile defense ... «ValueWalk, Jul 15»
Aus turned down post-match beer with England
The hard-bitten Tasmanian felt his players may have lost their competitive edge by being too friendly with their opponents and since, the teams ... «SuperSport, Jul 15»
Defeated Australia turned down post-match beer with England
The hard-bitten Tasmanian felt his players may have lost their competitive edge by being too friendly with their opponents and since, the teams ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»
Hiddleston and Del Toro Charm SDCC Audience, Tease 'Crimson …
According to The New York Times the new book paints Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck in "To Kill a Mockinbird") as a hard-bitten racist ... «WordandFilm.com, Jul 15»
ITV commissions Harry Price: Ghost Hunter | presscentre
Cynical and hard-bitten, although clever at winning the trust of the people he's interviewing, Vernon is keen to learn about Harry's techniques ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
REVIEW: The Bodyguard
Stuart Reid (Grease, Guys and Dolls UK tours) is not quite as hard-bitten, brooding or detached as it said on the Bodyguard tin as Frank but his ... «West Briton, Jul 15»
After Going Soft, CNN's Hillary Questioner Talks Tough: She 'Didn't …
Being surprised Hillary "didn't show contrition" in a scandal suggests naivete in a supposedly hard-bitten reporter. Does anyone remember a ... «NewsBusters, Jul 15»
A civil eye on the Civil War
Lowell's death equally devastated Boston society, which had just lost his brother-in-law Robert Gould Shaw, and the hard-bitten Army. George ... «HeraldNet, Jul 15»
Taryn Manning: So Much More Than Just 'Orange'
She's the hard-bitten, bible thumping, wounded gal... with one serious attitude problem. Tiffany is a character, who is no doubt unpleasant and ... «EDGE Boston, Jul 15»
