hard-set

Continue funding shuttle with an extension until at least 2012, but not hard-set like it is now.

Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch 2009

There is no hard-set rule on what land can be developed; in general, virgin forest cannot, farmland can.

Golf in Greece: a Byzantine ordeal Sebastian Moffett 2010

He has a fiery intensity to his stare that seems to radiate throughout his hard-set face.

The Dawn Patrol (1930) Ed Howard 2009

There wasn't any you know hard-set wage, nothing like that.

CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2008 2008

The hard-set mouth seemed to admonish his silence.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

With all these hard-set lines of thought, or of doctrine (the scabbard of thought, which saves its edge, and keeps it out of mischief), Stephen Anerley was not hard, or stern, or narrow-hearted.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

He looked at me, with a trembling finger upon his hard-set lips, and the spade in his other hand quivered like a wind vane; but I became as firm as the monument beside me, and my heart, instead of fluttering, grew as steadfast as a glacier.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

John had been rather bitter with me, which methought was a mark of ill taste at coming home for the holidays; and yet I made allowance for John, because he had never been at school, and never would have chance to eat fry upon condition of spelling it; therefore I rode on, thinking that he was hard-set, like a saw, for his dinner, and would soften after tooth-work.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

A smile played at the corners of his hard-set mouth.

Date With Death Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1984

Chambers, his eyes glassy and hard-set, stared up at Rourke.

The Doomsayer AHERN, Jerry 1981