And unlike emeralds, which are sometimes characterized as sleepy and which are by nature delicate, Tsavorite is a tough stone, colored so deeply that it can sometimes seem faked.
On to a tough stone substrate you pour layers of asphalt, which is a mixture of aggregate (bits of gravel, slag etc) and bitumen (the heaviest component of crude oil, not tar).
Honest adoration is her bulwark, which proves as tough as stone.
Ballast realized with tough crushed stone, at a low abrasion coefficient level, coming from volcanic rocks (basalt) and metamorphic ones: Dimensions: ϕmax = 6.0 cm and ϕmin = 3.0 cm; Thickness under railway 50.0 cm; Headbed 50.0 60.0 cm; Crushed stone K ≥ 80.0E+06 N/m2; Resilient modulus Mr ≥ 40.0E+06 N/m2.
Even the toughest guys that I taught, and I've taught quite a few "thugs" -- scarred, tattooed, hearts tough as stone (or so they'd like you to think) -- would've had a hard time not being affected by the interns' sensitivity to, genuine concern for, and insights into their lives and "the system" that had them (in so ways).
Woolley was accompanied by writer-director David Leland, who, according to Woolley, is "famously quite a tough, severe, stone-faced guy.
It was one of those big stately, solid buildings suggestive of the federal government's power; tough-looking stone eagles stood sentinel on its facade.
The supreme leader was quoted as saying, "Iran's political envoys to the world must be sharper than a sword, softer than gossamer, and tougher than stone and annealed steel.
At first I assumed that it must have derived from a manufacturer called Wincey; Josiah Wincey, perhaps, the proprietor of Wincey's Mill, on the windswept moors between Oldham and Burnley, as tough and stone-hearted a skinflint as ever made toiling workers stay at their looms over Christmas.
More annoying was the random element of the levels, where structures can change shape and material every time you play: an easily-destroyable wooden Eiffel Tower one time, then a tougher, squatter stone-heavy structure the next.
The new occupant, Ivo Kovac, has renamed it Tvrdi Kamen, meaning tough or solid stone, a play on Hard Rock Cafe, and it is a popular and profitable spot.
