rockbound

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White is a rockbound New Englander who still believes that "the best thing in New York is the 5 o'clock train to Boston."

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

No milk runs need apply for a vessel developed for the New Zealand Coast Guard by Rayglass Boats to handle the atrocious conditions of the rockbound Hauraki Coast.

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

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