hard-fisted

There came other guests: a German, hard-fisted, bullet-headed—editor of an East Side labor-paper.

Despite this, the Americans are hard-fisted, shrewd, and as a nation a match for any in the field of cunning.

Can't you name some one in this town who is known to be the most hard-fisted old miser in the place?

And yet he was, to all outward appearances, a singularly repulsive and hard-fisted old miser.

He knew that in a hand-to-hand fight he was no match for that heavy-framed, hard-fisted product of a fog-ridden land.