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

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

That insensate, bestial determination, iron-hearted, iron-strong, had beaten down opposition, had carried its point.

From A Man's Woman by Norris, Frank

But the iron-hearted duke insisted that to grant liberty of conscience was to grant unbounded licence.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

The Romans, also, were an iron-hearted people, placing their glory in foreign conquest.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)