solid as rock
Example Sentences
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The walls at the end of the passage were as solid as rock, and they responded dully to the stroke of the hammer.
From The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
The stream was broad, rapid, turbid, but the bottom solid as rock.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by Charles King
Old as it was, not a board creaked, not a banister shook—the whole felt solid as rock.
From The Portent & Other Stories by George MacDonald
It was as solid as rock in place––just as if the whole mountain had slipped!”
From The Plunderer by Douglas Duer
The frozen lake, on which the ice was three feet thick and solid as rock, was like a vast, smooth bed, covered with a white counterpane.
From The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature by Henry Van Dyke
