Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.
Mubai: Rough and 5 calloused. The hand of a Shuang Dao master.
No one wore shoes, and the bottoms of their feet were calloused and hard, as were their palms.
Pungent, because this was for removing ground-in dirt and oil from beneath hardened fingernails and from calloused hands.
The old rake, sturdy in my calloused hands, conveyed the feel of firm earth beneath its tines.
But the phone in his calloused hand hints at how hundreds of millions of people in emerging markets-perhaps even billions-will one day log on.
He is such a rough, calloused man, grasping the fear of hurting others, relaxing the fear of throwing others, to please a girl, much more difficult than converting ten cars.
On a forty-degree night, she was wearing only a faded print dress, a thin sweater too small to button, and black slippers with the backs cut out to expose calloused heels.
"Look at our hands; you can see that we do hard manual labor," Ms. Lam said, extending her calloused fingers. "our life depends on the weather and the waters."
