iron-hearted
Example Sentences
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At last, as numerous members of the audience began to weep, that iron-hearted Liberal, Viscount Grey of Fallodon drew forth his handkerchief and wiped his eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was none to plead for Tyro and her helpless children, for her mother, Alkidike, was dead, and Salmoneus had taken the iron-hearted Sidero to be his wife.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
Mr. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, calls it "an iron-fronted, iron-footed, and iron-hearted town."
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
Even grim Stanton, the iron-hearted, stood by his bedside and through blinding tears exclaimed: “Now he belongs to the ages!”
From The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Dixon, Thomas
For their iron-hearted spirit glowing with valor was panting, as of lions that glare battle.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois
