iron-hearted
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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
There was none to plead for Tyro and her helpless children, for her mother, Alkidike, was dead, and Salmoneus had taken the iron-hearted Sidero to be his wife.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The iron-hearted jailer had passed along, announcing, in coarsest phrase, that Robespierre was guillotined.
From Josephine Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Mr. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, calls it "an iron-fronted, iron-footed, and iron-hearted town."
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead
While the Moriscoes were stunned by the fierce blows thus dealt in rapid succession by the iron-hearted marquis, the mild and liberal policy of his rival was still more effectually reducing his enemies to obedience.
From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott
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