iron-hearted
Example Sentences
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At last, as numerous members of the audience began to weep, that iron-hearted Liberal, Viscount Grey of Fallodon drew forth his handkerchief and wiped his eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into this loosely compact political and social organization, hard-headed, clear-sighted, iron-hearted, steel-clad Cortes precipitated himself.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
The Romans, also, were an iron-hearted people, placing their glory in foreign conquest.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)
Then again they would be as iron-hearted in their demands, as though we were free from sufferings, and in affluent circumstances.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
Alas! humanity is weak: we are compelled to say that the heroic knight, the ardent lover, the iron-hearted rebel, suddenly changed his device, and took for his crest a lion no longer, only a hare.
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
