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Dictionary of Americanisms: A glossary of words and phrases, ...
Making happy. This mongrel barbarism, according to Mr. Pickering, is sometimes
heard in onr pulpits. HARD CASH. Silver or gold coin. HARD DRINKER. One
who drinks to excess ; a drunkard. HARDFISTED. Covetous ; close-handed.
John Russell Bartlett, 1848
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Dictionary of Americanism. - New-York, Bartlett 1848
Making happy. This mongrel barbarism, according to Mr. Pickering, is sometimes
heard in our pulpits. HARD CASH. Silver or gold coin. HARD DRINKER. One
who drinks to excess; a drunkard. HARDFISTED. Covetous; close-handed.—
Todd.
John Russel Bartlett, 1848
True, we depend on traders to provide the essentials of our survival there, but we
reward them handsomely for their efforts Sublette was the businessman of Smith,
Jackson & Sublette, hardfisted and flintyeyed, singleminded in coldhearted ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... callous, coldhearted, hard= boiled, hardhearted, heartless, obdurate,
stonyhearted, un- compassionate, unemotional hardfisted adj syn STINGY, close,
closefisted, hardhanded, narrow-fisted, narrowhearted, niggardly, penny-
pinching, tight, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
... hardship, ME. heardschipe, Ancren Riwle,p.6,l.9; hardware, hardfeatured,
hardfisted, hardhanded, hardheaded, hardhearted, hard mouthed, hardvisaged;
also hardy,q.v. HARDOCK, HORDOCK, prob. the cornbluebottle;
Centaureacyanus.
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Beloved Land, The (Song of Acadia Book #5)
... her and permitted Gordon to usher her from the cottage, she could not say
which held the greater appeal. Chapter4 Boston had always seemed a stern and
hardfisted city 38 Name /BelovedLand/text 11/09/2007 12:44PM Plate # 0 pg 38
# 28.
Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn, 2002
She was a woman who spoke with a velvet voice but acted with hardfisted
resolve. Pulling on the clothes he'd worn yesterday, Rafe wondered if Alexa had
flinched at the sight of his scars. Even though he'd never seen them himself, he
knew ...
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The Conservative Tradition in America
Charles A. Beard called the framers "hardfisted conservatives" who attempted to "
hamstring the masses."11 Others criticized them for having an "eighteenth
century" view of man as depraved, and for trying to frustrate the will of the majority
.
Charles W. Dunn, J. David Woodard, 2003
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Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
By some odd freak of chance this was not the case. The millowners and those
directly concerned with the production of lumber were a hardheaded, hardfisted
lot, with no interest in the amenities of existence, but displaying an amused and ...
... was a product of the Republican far right. Some saw a mellower “new Nixon,”
but he was still a hardfisted, unforgiving figure who viewed human affairs through
Hobbesian lenses. Kissinger was a German Jew whose family had fled Nazism.
John Lamberton Harper, 2011
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The Election That Saved the United States
But Johnson was the only Southern senator who had remained with the Union, and more recently the hardfisted governor of Union-controlled ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 14»
Connecticut minister Herbert Hayden beats the rap in 1878 murder …
Dana's pomposity did not go over well with the jury, whom Cummings described as “hardfisted Rocklanders. . . unsophisticated but hardheaded ... «New York Daily News, Oct 12»
The danger of social networking to business
Unsurprisingly, the story very soon grew legs. Comments such as calling a customer a “retard” or describing them as “hardfisted” (and there are ... «IT PRO, Sep 09»
Currys and PC World staff to be investigated after abusing …
Long answer: No and go f*** yourself you hardfisted, smallwalleted, annoying, iggnorant tightfisted f***tard." A spokeswoman for DSG ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 09»
