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
Chamberlain dealt with Hitler "in the language of sweet reasonableness," Duff Cooper told the House, in a speech interrupted by his sobbing, "whereas the mailed fist is the only language Hitler understands!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The lord with the mailed fist on his surcoat raised his eyes.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
