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Hard surface

verb

Cover with asphalt or a similar surface.

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"Hard surface" Quotes from Famous Books

... attacked. Upon this groundwork of buff leather I had plates of thick and hard buffalo hide, tanned, overlapping like slates upon a roof. This armour was proof against either teeth or claws, as neither could hold upon the slippery and yielding hard surface of the leather tiles; at the same time the elephant could move its trunk with ease. Two circular apertures were cut out for the eyes, about six ...

— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker

... the company dropped upon their knees and did their best to see. One or two thought they discerned something like a track; the others shook their heads and confessed that the smooth hard surface had no marks upon it which their eyes were sharp enough to discover. One said, "Maybe a child's foot could make a mark on it, but ...

— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain

... gates of the spaceport and sped across the hard surface of the field. A moment later it came to a shuddering stop at the base of the giant ...

— The Space Pioneers • Carey Rockwell

... his seat in an omnibus that plied between the city and the seaside suburb of St. Kilda, three miles off. A cool breeze went; the hoofs of the horses beat a rataplan on the hard surface; the great road, broad enough to make three of, was alive with ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... suffer? During those first weeks he must have suffered terribly and horribly. There was no respite nor rest from the hard surface of the rock, and aching muscles could find no change from the cramped and perilous position. If he fell, it was damnation for his soul—all were agreed as ...

— The Mintage • Elbert Hubbard

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