iron hand

I had never seen him lose his temper, and he governed our company with an iron hand.

I could have hugged both of them, but I kept an iron hand on myself.

You cannot do otherwise; the iron hand of destiny constrains you.

It was time for me to show the iron hand, and I did not hesitate a second.

Such a splendid fellow, with an iron hand, just what an administrator ought to be.

Now he has been caught up in the iron hand, and sent to battle.

Then he dropped as though dead, forcing down Andrew with an iron hand.

The Dead Man raised his iron hand as if to dash out her brains for her temerity.

Mettlich of the Iron Hand had held them, would continue to hold them.

To mighty Lords who owned the land And ruled them with an iron hand.