All 4 Uses of
callous
in
Gone with the Wind
- "Look at mine," answered Scarlett with a frightening smile as she pushed blistered and calloused palms toward her.†
Chpt 3.25
- There it lay in this stranger's calloused dirty palm and soon it would find its way North and onto the finger of some Yankee woman who would be proud to wear stolen things.†
Chpt 3.27
- Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.†
Chpt 4.37 *
- She did not know why this should be, for he was such an unpredictable, callous person.†
Chpt 4.47
Definition:
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(callous) heartless (cruel lack of concern for other's feelings)
or an alternative spelling for callus--thickened skin that comes from rubbing as when having calluses on the hands from doing much work with a shovel