hard-shell

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Hard-shell lobsters are often shipped live, in cardboard or plastic boxes kept damp with, for example, wet newspaper.

From US News • Dec. 7, 2011

Hard-shell Conservative Columnist David Lawrence urged Ike to "get down to brass tacks and explain the issues."

From Time Magazine Archive

Find out what you yourself really do think, and if you turn out a Sun-worshiper or a Hard-shell Baptist, why, good luck.

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair

And Catholic, Methodist, or Hard-shell Baptist, as suited his needs.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

Then at the suggestion of the president, who quickly discovered my mental deficiencies, I was matriculated as a student at another university founded by the brethren of the same "Hard-shell Persuasion."

From The Gentleman from Everywhere by Foss, James Henry