The pains induced by this laborious copying hardened his resolve to find a way to build a true copying machine.

Sartan are also of the same height and build as humans, but unlike the Patryns, they have not been hardened by generations of violent life.

Were the bricks hardened first, and then arranged in order to build the structures, or were the structures built out of partially hardened bricks, after which the entire structures were heated by fire to finish the hardening of the bricks?

Oppression hardened as the new ruling class started to build manor-houses all over the country.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

When the resin has hardened, mix up another batch with a pigment added if you wish.

To make up for the lack of officers, Kidd picked up replacement crew in New York, the vast majority of whom were known and hardened criminals, some undoubtedly former pirates.

The bomb is 3. 05 m ( 10 ft ) long and weighs 560 kg ( 1, 234 lb ), of which 380 kg ( 837 lb ) is a hardened, armor-piercing warhead capable of penetrating up to 1. 5 m ( 4 ft 11 in ) of reinforced concrete.

Dust from near-surface explosions against hardened targets also contributes ; each Mt-equivalent of explosion could release up to 5 million tons of dust, but most would quickly fall out ; high altitude dust is estimated at 0. 1-1 million tons per Mt-equivalent of explosion.

Typically farmers break up hardpan up with a subsoiler, which acts as a long, sharp knife to slice through the hardened layer of soil deep below the surface.

The conservative character of the king, which in foreign policy up to 1806 had manifested itself in unconditional loyalty to Saxon interests, hardened even more after the experience of Napoleonic hegemony.

Many arthropods have sclerites, or hardened body parts, which form a stiff exoskeleton made up mostly of chitin.

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a tall, conical volcano built up by many layers ( strata ) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash.

The inset shows a close up of the nioi, which appears as the speckled area between the bright hardened edge and the darker soft zone.

Those who are grown up in the present active generations, the matured and hardened, with all their weaknesses and flaws, cannot do very much, though they may do something with themselves.

In his Contes bizarre d ' Orleans, the latter says that the Americans picked up the common phrase " Quelle canule ", but they were usually shivering so hard when they said it that it came out with the " l " hardened into a guttural stop – thence a " k ".

On the section of the line in Essex, between Great Chesterford and Canvey Island, the defences were made up of around 400 FW3 type concrete pillboxes, which were part of the British hardened field defences of World War II.

When it had dried and hardened, it was cut up and then fried until crisp, then served with honey and pepper.

Vessels equipped with K-F drives are known as jumpships and range in mass up to 500, 000 tonnes, though warships, a subclass of jumpship hardened against attack and fitted with naval weapons, may mass up to 2. 5 million tonnes.

The notice drawn up by the War Office for the use of his guardians denounced him as " a hardened malefactor, quite unworthy of pity.

* The Last Boy Scout ( hardened ex-Secret Service agent turned private detective teams up with disgraced American Football star )

The Palaeocene Reading beds consist of mottled and yellow clays and sands, the latter are frequently hardened into masses made up of pebbles in a siliceous cement, known locally as Hertfordshire puddingstone.

From this period dates the large underground nuclear hardened bunker to the East of the Mansion, built in 1982 which replaced the previous World War II bunker on the site, which had been continually upgraded from 1940 up to the 1980s.

The pointed edge is most often used to break up rocky surfaces or other hard surfaces such as concrete or hardened dried earth.

If the truck breaks down or for some other reason the concrete hardens in the truck, workers may need to enter the barrel with jackhammers ; dynamite is still occasionally used to break up hardened concrete in the barrel under certain circumstances.

Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.

In order to reduce wear at this point, the cam and follower are both surface hardened, and modern lubricant motor oils contain additives specifically to reduce sliding friction.

* At what point in the building process were the bricks hardened by fire?

Six hardened steel wood screws passing through slightly oversize holes just in front of the pivot point stopped the bridge from being pulled towards the neck end of the guitar.

Concerning the Chinese documents, they point out their various date errors ( see above ) as proof that the quality of their observations was inferior to what is commonly accepted, and therefore that nothing rules out the possibility that more hardened observers may have seen the supernova beforehand.

This allowed a wide range of bullet weights to be used with a single bore size ; the. 450 Black Powder Express, for example, was loaded with bullets ranging from a 270 grain hollow point bullet for small game such as deer, to a 360 grain solid bullet for use on dangerous game, to even heavier hardened bullets for use on elephant.

Despite the fulfilled prophesy of the Chief Judge's murder, the people hardened their hearts-even to the point of attempting to throw Nephi in jail.

Boiled leather is an example of this, where the leather has been hardened by being immersed in hot water, or in boiled wax or similar substances.

The ancient builders placed these ingredients in wooden frames where it hardened and bonded to a facing of stones or ( more frequently ) bricks.

Close examination of blacksmith-made antique tools clearly shows where small pieces of steel were forge-welded into iron to provide the hardened steel cutting edges of tools ( notably in axes, adzes, chisels, etc .).

He got in with a band of rustlers in Apache Tejo in part of the county where he was made a hardened character.

Nevertheless, he had excelled in roles playing the toughest criminal of all, such as 1955's Big House, U. S. A., where Crawford had to convincingly play the role of a convict who leads a band of hardened criminals such as Charles Bronson, Ralph Meeker, and William Talman.

The nuclei of armed bands under aristocratic leaders that terrorized parts of France had been hardened in a generation of war in Germany where troops still tended to operate autonomously.

The anatomical parts used to produce sound are quite varied: the most common system is that seen in grasshoppers and many other insects, where a hind leg scraper is rubbed against the adjacent forewing ( in beetles and true bugs the forewings are hardened ); in crickets and katydids a file on one wing is rubbed by a scraper on the other wing ; in longhorned beetles, the back edge of the pronotum scrapes against a file on the mesonotum ; in various other beetles, the sound is produced by moving the head-up / down or side-to-side-while in others the abdominal tergites are rubbed against the elytra ; in assassin bugs, the tip of the mouthparts scrapes along a ridged groove in the prosternum ; in velvet ants the back edge of one abdominal tergite scrapes a file on the dorsal surface of the following tergite.

Special hardened chains ( made with tungsten carbide ) are used for applications where soil is likely to contaminate the cut, such as for cutting through roots.

The bitumen was hardened where it was exposed to light and the unhardened portion was then removed with a solvent.

Evidence of the earliest surviving personal sized bath tub was found on the Isle of Crete where a long pedestal tub was found built from hardened pottery.

If one shakes a bean near one's ear and hears a rattle inside, the larva inside has either died or entered the pupal stage where its hardened shell makes a softer rattle.

An ice rink ( or ice skating rink ) is a frozen body of water and / or hardened chemicals where people can ice skate or play winter sports.

Once the volcanic eruptions came to an end, the ongoing forces of glacial erosion stripped away the outer layers of volcanic ash deposits and lava flows, uncovering the rocky lava spines where magma had cooled and hardened within the conduits of the volcano.

Leather was even used for leather " armor " where soldier's jackets were made of several layers of hardened leather sewn together.

When these discarded fruits have hardened and become slightly brittle, the capuchins will gather them up again and take them to a large flat boulder where they have previously gathered a few river stones from up to a mile away.

In addition to eliminating air where it contacts steel, modern concrete additives may include acrylic liquid " admixtures " to slow moisture absortion and increase shock resistance to the hardened product or to alter curing rates.

Typical uses are for the shackle of a lock, where the outer layer is hardened to be file resistant, and mechanical gears, where hard gear mesh surfaces are needed to maintain a long service life while toughness is required to maintain durability and resistance to catastrophic failure.

The steel is hardened through a special process where the forged steel blade is heated up to approximately 760 degrees Celsius ( or about 1400F ) dependent on the specific steel.

Cooling is often preferable as it is less likely than heating to change material properties, e. g., assembling a hardened gear onto a shaft, where the risk exists of heating the gear too much and drawing its temper.

Shoplifting and other crimes of similar scope eventually landed Bunker in Juvenile Hall, where he became acquainted with hardened young criminals.

These deltas eventually dried and were buried under subsequent sediments where they hardened into a layer of resistant rock.

Stretching for almost 2 miles, these large metamorphic rock projections are the result of St. Kitts ' last volcanic eruption ( estimated to be in the 14th century ) when lava poured down the slopes of Mount Liamuiga creeping until it met the Atlantic Ocean, where it cooled and hardened.