He was a hard-hearted old man.    From LearnThat.org. 

"What a hard-hearted person you are," smiled Marjorie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference

  This hard-hearted Hannah, this shell of a real person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Step, and There Are Lots] Reference

They were very proud men in temper, hard-hearted and unkind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

"You are not half as hard-hearted as you would have me think.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference

Beware of an avaricious and hard-hearted neighbour or friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference

After this flippant and hard-hearted conduct, as it is described, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

"Mr. Slocum is a very hard-hearted man," cried the girl, indignantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Yet Lord Chetwynde by nature was not hard-hearted, and Hilda well knew this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

"That's because you are all hard-hearted girls," Tommy answered with a scowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference

"I certainly hope He will," declared her friend, in rather a hard-hearted way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

It was the truth, but Mrs. Deland thought the speaker exceedingly hard-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Polly At Play] Reference

Very reluctantly I refused the gift, and felt wretchedly hard-hearted in doing so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference

"I shall not trouble myself to do any such thing," replied the hard-hearted parson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference

"The world is less hard-hearted than I thought," was my reflection as I resumed painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

At last the hard-hearted old woman went too far, as cruel people are pretty sure to do in the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

Softies will weep, while us hard-hearted have all sorts of questions, starting with tax questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [As the network onslaught begins, what if the TV critic picked out shows just for you?] Reference

But only the hard-hearted are unmoved by the parallel distress: layoffs, salary cuts, bankruptcies.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMPETITION'S QUIET VICTORY] Reference

And the eventual comeuppance that delayed-arrival Becky gives hard-hearted Regan is laughably operatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Finkle: First Nighter: Young Women Behave Badly in Bachelorette and So Does Bachelorette] Reference

'You are not so hard-hearted' ---- began Sarah; but a prolonged ringing at the telephone interrupted her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

While establishing the gravity of Robert's pronouncement, Bartlett shows him to be a hard-hearted father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthquakes in London] Reference

If you could be hard-hearted enough to win H. from this bilious beverage, would it not be worth the perils?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

My informant said that the hard-hearted girl mumbled something both when inserting and extracting the pins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

Major Lester would be hard-hearted indeed if he did not make him welcome after finding his long-lost son! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

He must tell it in a cold, hard-hearted way without elaboration, for the story in itself is gruesome enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference

She was congratulating herself that she had not been forced to ask favors of that "hard-hearted old tyrant.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference

"Persis Dale," cried Mrs. West, her voice breaking, "I didn't think you had it in you to be so hard-hearted.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

But the guests were hard-hearted, and answered cruelly, especially the abbots and priors, who had been deceived by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

She was fair-haired, and had so much of it that she could hide herself in it; but she was layish and hard-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

He gave a start of surprise when she said, with indignation in her voice, 'What a horrid, hard-hearted way to talk!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

Were it all sadness the world would grow morose and torpid; were it all gladness men would be selfish and hard-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge] Reference

But the harsh treatment of youth had spoilt his pleasant nature, and his want of faith made him unscrupulous and hard-hearted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

And so saying, he strode out of the room, leaving the women with hands and eyes uplifted at the hard-hearted conduct of the father.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Little Lady] Reference

With sobbing and tears, she made known the resolution of the hard-hearted revengeful monster, into whose power destiny had placed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Yet he was not a hard-hearted man, and upon the suggestion of a reconciliation, if, for six months, his wife proved herself to be indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference

And maybe before next April comes around, the hard-hearted John M. will have relented toward his gifted son-in-law, and all will be well.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

He was just a hard-fisted, hard-hearted, shrewd and successful country politician; and there appeared to be no soft side to his character.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

Mark Clay stared at this girl who presumed to call him horrid and hard-hearted, and to hold up as an example his bugbear and opponent, Bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah's School Friend] Reference

Haroun was so infuriated when he heard of the hard-hearted iniquity of the Cadi, and the taking of bribes and refusal of justice by Ali ibn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Caliph] Reference