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
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Not gentle Master Simon, but a stern, iron-handed, iron-hearted man, from whom Margery and Alice shrank instinctively.
From Mistress Margery by Holt, Emily Sarah
He is the enemy of conjugal love, and is the Jupiter of the Greeks, an iron-hearted tyrant, the ruiner of ancient Greece.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene
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
The iron-hearted jailer had passed along, announcing, in coarsest phrase, that Robespierre was guillotined.
From Josephine Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)