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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Said the rockbound National Association of Manufacturers' Morris Sayre: "We are now on our way to taking the cap off the high cost of living."

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