rockbound

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After reeling off a few contemporary images�"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"�he got to Fuller's Maine point: A nd the rockbound coast Is threatened by the super Tankers disgorging crude oil On the tide .

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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