But she is so tough-skinned that the stabbing has no effect.

He was thin, too, like his wife, but tall and tough-skinned.

For that reason he has a few hosting strategies: Be tough-skinned and talk smack back.

Not until the practical, tough-skinned, frankly sexual Iris comes along does he find the nerve to face the facts.

But already the signs are clear that this tough-skinned, straight-talking German will waste no time before he makes his presence felt.

These are the dinosaurs - the tough-skinned relics of bygone eras.

Water creature that Brist might be, he was still powerful, tough-skinned, deadly, and intelligent.

They all have rough red patches like coins on their cheeks, small, tough-skinned hands, and feet encrusted with mud.

Rake's successor must be many things, but tough-skinned must be paramount.

It fitted with the men's faces - tough-skinned, widely pored, yellow-brown.

He is above a green world while feathered and tough-skinned fauna speck the air below him and pay no mind.

Both come with tough-skinned reheated potatoes.

M. Amblard dismissed the California prune as tough-skinned and fibrous.

They must be the tough-skinned triggerfish.

The other 30 percent of egg-laying, or oviparous, species lay tough-skinned eggs that often have interesting shapes and colors.

Hildy - A kind-hearted and tough-skinned old Scottish witch.

She was a square-built woman, a thick, tough-skinned German as solid as a Gothic cathedral.

"Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her," another steamy passage reads.

Judges of the annual honor said they were especially impressed by a passage comparing lovemaking to "a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect."

Most of the time he is in charge, coaxing his anchors to recount a story with honeyed words that make even these tough-skinned veterans preen.

Indeed, Mr. DeLay, a tough-skinned Texan who is majority leader, has been there before.

These tough-skinned human-sized balloons were furnished with enough air recycling equipment and power to keep a passenger alive in a pressurization emergency until rescue arrived.

Damned young colt," he muttered, referring to Cadderly, whose constant demands for compassion had apparently worn at the tough-skinned dwarf. "

As time goes on, Oscar is rejected by nearly every chimp in the group, until the only one left to ask is the tough-skinned leader Freddy.

Leatherjackets are the tough-skinned, headless larvae of the insects that survive by gorging on grass roots and destroying lawns.