Crossword-Solution: TOUGHED 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Nevertheless, in defence of her theses, Miss Wilcox was rough-toughed in public, while in private, she studied recipes and articles on cooking.

From the _Decisions of Virginia General Court_ now being printed by the Virginia Historical Society, we learn of one Margaret Jones that at a court held at "James-Citty" on the 12th of October, 1626: "for ye severall offences aforenamed, of ye said Margaret Jones, yt Shee bee toughed or dragged at a boats Starne in ye River from ye shoare unto the Margaret & John and thence unto the shoare againe." Toughed would seem a truly appropriate word for this ordeal.

Job does not appear to have resorted to fig poultices, nor to any remedies, whatever: and, while Hezekiah behaved like a great baby, and wept bitterly, Job toughed it out, like a man; and, instead of mourning and murmuring, under the torment, not of one, but of countless boils, he poured forth torrents of incomparable eloquence, all the while, on various topics.

Animated by the love of adventure, the Don had left a luxurious home in the East to come in early times to California, and had there "toughed through" all those scenes and times that now read like pages from a fascinating romance.

You know the sort of silent-victim appearance of suffering innocence some people take and wear, which increases when the meat is tough, and the pudding burnt, and which is all more or less aimed at me, till I feel so _culprit_, as if I blew the winds, and made the cold, and toughed the meat, and burnt the dish.