rockbound

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He had been the front runner, the sincere, often eloquent Abe Lincoln with the rockbound Maine integrity �who contrasted so sharply with the expedient, unlovable Richard Nixon.

From Time Magazine Archive

No milk runs need apply for a vessel developed for the New Zealand Coast Guard by Rayglass Boats to handle the atrocious conditions of the rockbound Hauraki Coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

White is a rockbound New Englander who still believes that "the best thing in New York is the 5 o'clock train to Boston."

From Time Magazine Archive

A new daytime serial all about a young governess and a ten-year-old boy who live in a brooding, 19th century castle on a precipitous cliff above the raging sea on the rockbound coast of Maine.

From Time Magazine Archive

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