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

Oh, if she was, and I had cast her off, and made myself a cold iron-hearted brute, at the whisper of a wretch like Jeeks!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

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

But the iron-hearted duke insisted that to grant liberty of conscience was to grant unbounded licence.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

The iron-hearted Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir John Brydges, had been softened by the charms of his prisoner, and begged for some memorial of her in writing.

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Rhys, Ernest