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This insect’s rugged exoskeleton is so tough that the beetle can survive getting run over by cars, and many would-be predators don’t stand a chance of cracking one open.

But thanks to work done in the 1960s and 1970s, “it is still seen as a representation of American Western ruggedness.”

But although Turner has exaggerated the ruggedness of Hindhead in his picture, the place is not at all gracious or suave.

The fact is that the immigrant stock quickly loses here its distinctive ruggedness.

In practice I do not believe in that picturesque ruggedness about the knees which seems so attractive to the average sculptor.

It is a mountain of striking individuality and peculiar ruggedness, though not extremely difficult to climb.

Joshua had doubtless much of the ruggedness of the early soldier, and it is not fair to blame him for want of sweetness and light.