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
But ever since the fall of the Tanaka Government in 1929, last exponent of the mailed fist in China, Japanese militarists have been gunning for pacific Baron Shidehara.
From Time Magazine Archive
A longsword hung from his hip, and his deep-dyed scarlet cloak was fastened at the shoulder with a heavy silver brooch in the shape of a mailed fist.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
