weather-hardened

Its relative protection from hazards associated with sea-level rise, its weather-hardened architecture and infrastructure, its strong and equitable economy, its state of technological development, etc., all signal a good measure of resilience at the national scale.

Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010

Fateh Muhammad, 60, with a walking stick and a weather-hardened face, sat panting on a rock before his uphill climb towards the spring.

Maria Tirmizi: Drinking to your health Maria Tirmizi 2010

A blush spread across his weather-hardened cheeks and he answered stiffly, And youre early.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

A blush spread across his weather-hardened cheeks and he answered stiffly, And youre early.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

A blush spread across his weather-hardened cheeks and he answered stiffly, And youre early.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

A blush spread across his weather-hardened cheeks and he answered stiffly, And youre early.

The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

A blush spread across his weather-hardened cheeks and he answered stiffly, And youre early.

Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

He looked so shy and kind for such a sun-bitten, weather-hardened creature, that she had no heart to refuse the friendly offer, even had she felt the inclination.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

The heath sheep -- the little, contented, weather-hardened grazing sheep of the Lüneburg and other heaths -- belong to one of the oldest species, and their tails are as short and their horns as dark as those of the moufflon.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 Various

The Texan's eyes rested sombrely upon the remnant of a rocking-horse, still hitched by bits of weather-hardened leather to a child's wheelbarrow whose broken wheel had once been the bottom of a wooden pail -- and he swore, softly.

The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921