rockbound

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He had been the front runner, the sincere, often eloquent Abe Lincoln with the rockbound Maine integrity �who contrasted so sharply with the expedient, unlovable Richard Nixon.

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

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

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