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.

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

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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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He admired the iron and certainty of the traditional Calvinist theology, "stern and rockbound" like the coast of Maine.

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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