rockbound

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Indeed, the Senate had adjourned without the customary vote of thanks to the rather insignificant, the entirely silent, the "stern and rockbound" Vice President.

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The excitement of the stock flurry was mild compared to some that the rockbound, conservative Bank of New York has had since it was founded by Alexander Hamilton.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Bar Harbor elementary school, overlooking summer vacationers looking over the rockbound coast of Maine, seems an unlikely place to originate major medical news about some of the most baffling and intractable diseases of man.

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Nina Foch and Barry Jones in Agatha Christie's stern and rockbound murder classic.

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John Hiram Gilbreth died in 1871, leaving his three-year-old son, two older daughters, and a stern and rockbound widow.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey