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
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
One group even boasts its own flag, a green map of Assam with a mailed fist in the center.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
