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- When people plead with you at this late day to quit that vice, that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. [5]
- The more I weakened, the more stubbornly you fastened on to those particular sins; till at last the places on my person that represent those vices became as callous as shark-skin. [5]
- He received no verbal answer to these mute questions, but when Hosea grasped his callous right hand in both his own and pressed it as he would have clasped a friend's, when he bade him farewell with tearful eyes, murmuring: "You shall hear from me! [10]
- I know you think I am callous, but I cannot help that. [11]
- But are you not a little callous to speak of such things as if you thirsted for their occurrence? [11]
- Neither do I like the thought of passing my life in going from one scene of suffering to another; I am not saintly enough for such a daily martyrdom, nor callous enough to make it an easy occupation. [6]
- But, for myself, I have grown callous to all such allusions. [6]
- Again he lifted his hand in prayer, again Pentaur observed that his glance met that of his wife, and a large, warm tear fell from his old eyes on to his callous hand. [10]
- To know that he missed Austen, to feel that Hilary was being justly punished for his treatment of her idol, for his callous neglect and lack of realization of the blessings of his life--these were Euphrasia's grim compensations. [9]
- By-and-by our hands get callous, and then we have no longer any sensitiveness about it. [6]
- That a thinking being could become so utterly callous to everything--everything, be it what it may--even I could never have believed! [10]
- One would be apt to imagine that the Thugs were utterly callous, utterly destitute of human feelings, heartless toward their own families as well as toward other people's; but this was not so. [5]
- I have become a little callous to public sights, but have, notwithstanding, been to see the funeral of the late king, and the entrance into Paris of the present one. [4]
- But it is a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. [2]
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