rockbound

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Thus he began to reveal more and more about the rockbound New England upbringing which had made him so rigidly "moral" that he was hardly human.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the rockbound National Association of Manufacturers' Morris Sayre: "We are now on our way to taking the cap off the high cost of living."

From Time Magazine Archive

The words are supposed to remind the 1,150 students of their school's rockbound commitment to morality, probity and restraint.

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

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