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
President Millerand moved surely and boldly, revealing himself as the velvet hand within Poincar�'s mailed fist.
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
