For hardiness and docility they were unequalled.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The Squire insists that the English gentlemen have lost much of their hardiness and manhood, since the introduction of carriages.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
He was astonished, almost terrified by his hardiness; and what he detected of its effect on her threw him into an indescribable state of emotion.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell