"Calloused" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... press a coin in the calloused palm of the peasant, who took off his cap and bowed several times, as though grateful, and then he continued on his way along ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... wrote, he actually made me feel of his fist, which was like a blacksmith's hammer or a nodule of iron, telling me that it was calloused ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... in the shadow of the wall, having scrambled and slithered, jumping like a deer, climbing like a goat down the rock-strewn road which leads to the village from the great house at its rear; one of those abominable roads allotted to the calloused native foot, honoured for the first time in this instance by the passage of the prince's son ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... about those horses," Frank commented in a puzzled voice. "I grew up on a farm. Those are work horses, but field horses always have harness marks on them where the hair gets rubbed off or the skin gets calloused. If they used these horses for work, there ought to be collar and hames rubs on their necks. There ought to be worn streaks left by the traces on their sides. There isn't. Far as the evidence shows, they might have ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... the little chubby fingers lost Their childish softness and grace, And toughened and chapped and calloused, And the rosy, ...
— Quiet Talks with World Winners • S. D. Gordon
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