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

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

In calmer moments, even the hard-fisted, iron-hearted, unterrified and never-washed democracy would have shed a few blushes over it.

From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy

What of Andromache, Wife of mine iron-hearted Hector, where Journeyeth she?

From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes

Alas! humanity is weak: we are compelled to say that the heroic knight, the ardent lover, the iron-hearted rebel, suddenly changed his device, and took for his crest a lion no longer, only a hare.

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous