Potential Titles: Tough

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Even before the bird cracked its brittle tough shell - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

Now the ferns have grown tough - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson

Molten over toughened silken hide - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"

The toughest lives are brittle - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"

No tough arm bends the springing yew - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

we are those tough bitter stems and pits - Tanque R. Jones "Chitterlings and Collard Greens"

Prickly, cussed, hard to parse and tough to handle - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Truth has its own tough memory - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"


Tough-grained calamities - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"


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