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Rugged

adjective

Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.

Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface. Synonym: furrowed. "His furrowed face lit by a warming smile"

Topographically very uneven. Synonym: broken. "Rugged ground"

Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution. Synonym: tough. "The rugged conditions of frontier life" , "The competition was tough" , "It's a tough life" , "It was a tough job"

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"Rugged" Quotes from Famous Books

... he cried, "you zhouldn't ha' done that;" and he glanced wildly about him as if expecting to see the rugged head of an alligator rise close by. "Go back, lad; go back. It's on'y ...

— Nic Revel - A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land • George Manville Fenn

... the last dying throes of superstition seemed fastening on the people's minds, and the spasmodic struggle threatened to upset their reason. The New Englander's mind was prepared for mysteries as the fallow ground is prepared for the seed. He was busied conquering the rugged earth and making it yield to his husbandry. His time was divided between arduous toil for bread and fighting the Indians. He was hemmed in by a gloomy old forest, the magnitude of which he did not dream, and it was only natural, with his fertile imagination, narrow ...

— The Witch of Salem - or Credulity Run Mad • John R. Musick

... men alive, but I am glad the gold is yours. You deserve every ounce of it," and Jack was clinging to his handsome young uncle's other hand with a heartiness that rang as true as the nuggets lying at his feet. Presently he stooped to lift one. Its rugged yellow bulk reflected the dying sun. It was a goodly thing to look at, rare, precious, beautiful. Then he dropped it among its fellows, his fingers curled into his palms. Unconsciously his hands moulded themselves into fists, and each fist rested ...

— The Shagganappi • E. Pauline Johnson

... perfectly calm—more particularly in the early morning, when the tide was generally with us. After several days' paddling we got into a narrow passage between a long elevated island and the main, and from there found our way into an inlet, at the head of which appeared masses of wild and rugged rocks. These rocks were, in many places, decorated with a number of crude but striking mural paintings, which were protected from the weather. The drawings I found represented men chiefly. My own contributions consisted of life-size ...

— The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont - as told by Himself • Louis de Rougemont

... tongue of Seraphim hain't competent to tell what I seed then! That country hain't rugged and on-eend like this here, but is spread out smooth and soft and keerful, with nary ragged corner nowhar', and just enough roll to tole the eye along. Thar I, beheld the wide, green pastures I had heared tell of in Scriptur', thar I seed still ...

— Sight to the Blind • Lucy Furman

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