I feel as if I could eat ten-penny nails!
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
That girl can be hard as nails!
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
The man, who was young, was dressed in plain blue duck, and, though Nasmyth noticed that his hands were hard, and that he had broken nails, there was something in his bronzed face that suggested mental capacity.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton