mailed fist
Example Sentences
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He'd grown up in Poland, under the mailed fist of Soviet hegemony.
From US News • Sep. 24, 2015
These testaments to Stalin personified "force with charm, the twinkling eyes with the mailed fist".
From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2013
His suggestions to editors and his criticisms tended to be delivered in a velvet glove, not with a mailed fist.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2012
Both France and England stroked the little Generalissimo's mailed fist by trying to persuade the Loyalists that further fighting was useless, that they had just as well yield the remainder of Spain without further bloodshed.
From Time Magazine Archive
He glimpsed the bull moose of the Homwoods, the Karstark sunburst, Lord Cerwyn's battle-axe, and the mailed fist of the Glovers .. . and the twin towers of Frey, blue on grey.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
