iron-hearted

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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

The interest of the press and the public approval of the National Irish Players had not proved sufficient to propitiate that iron-hearted monster, Financial Success.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth

Oh, if she was, and I had cast her off, and made myself a cold iron-hearted brute, at the whisper of a wretch like Jeeks!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

Tinker passed out of sight without a glance back, and, for a while, that iron-hearted, inexorable man of many loans, sobbed like a child with mingled rage and fear.

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar

The iron-hearted Berselius, the man of daring and nerve, was not here, he had been left behind in the elephant country in the immeasurable south.

From The Pools of Silence by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)