solid as rock
Example Sentences
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They hasten from the east In unending files; Their arrows speed like lightning; Their chargers are shod with swiftness; Their chariots are solid as rock.
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan
Many live happily here, although the ice is still solid as rock, and more snow fell in the night, and there are no garden and no Taunus here.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno
It was as solid as rock in place––just as if the whole mountain had slipped!”
From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas
The stream was broad, rapid, turbid, but the bottom solid as rock.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles
Old as it was, not a board creaked, not a banister shook—the whole felt solid as rock.
From The Portent & Other Stories by MacDonald, George
