Oh, I think he proposed it in a moment of hardheartedness-we all put on tortoiseshell now and then, and presently come out into the sun as sensitively as ever.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
The ladies of the Queen's household distinguished themselves preeminently by rapacity and hardheartedness.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay
For men with Irish and Cambrian blood in their veins the rubicund grotesque, with his unimpressionable front and his noisy benevolence of the pocket, his fits of horned ferocity and lapses of hardheartedness, is a shame and a loathing.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith