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Rugged

adjective

Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.

Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface. Synonym: furrowed. "His furrowed face lit by a warming smile"

Topographically very uneven. Synonym: broken. "Rugged ground"

Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution. Synonym: tough. "The rugged conditions of frontier life" , "The competition was tough" , "It's a tough life" , "It was a tough job"

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"Rugged" Quotes from Famous Books

... of his life belong two characteristic anecdotes. In a struggle with a fellow-student, Michael Angelo received a blow from a mallet in his face, which, breaking bone and cartilage, lent to his nose the rugged bend, ...

— The Old Masters and Their Pictures - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art • Sarah Tytler

... a sailor's wife, a sailor herself at heart. He had read the service over her, out of her own prayer-book, without a break in his voice. When he raised his eyes he could see old Swinburne facing him with his cap pressed to his breast, and his rugged, weather-beaten, impassive face streaming with drops of water like a lump of chipped red granite in a shower. It was all very well for that old sea-dog to cry. He had to read on to the end; but after the splash he did not remember much of what happened for the next few days. An elderly sailor ...

— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad

... they were still in the very rugged hills; and as the mountain outlines cleared of mist, the Gul Moti saw that Mitha Baba was leading her catch straight away back to Hurda. True to her training—there being no trap-stockades near—the toiler was taking them home! The situation was ...

— Son of Power • Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

... river took a winding course. It ran through meads, soft and vivid with luxuriant vegetation, bounded on either side by rich hanging woods, save where occasionally a quarry broke the verdant bosom of the heights with its rugged and tawny form. Fair stone and plenteous timber, and the current of fresh waters, combined, with the silent and secluded scene screened from every harsh and angry wind, to form the sacred spot that in old days Holy Church loved to hallow with its beauteous and enduring structures. ...

— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli

... people believe that it was he who had cut off the head of the governor of the Bastille. So they called him Jourdan, Coupe-tete. That was not his real name, which was Mathieu Jouve. Neither was he a Provencal; he came from Puy-en-Velay. He had formerly been a muleteer on those rugged heights which surround his native town; then a soldier without going to war—war had perhaps made him more human; after that he had kept a drink-shop in Paris. In Avignon he had been a ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

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