rockbound
Example Sentences
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The excitement of the stock flurry was mild compared to some that the rockbound, conservative Bank of New York has had since it was founded by Alexander Hamilton.
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
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
Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands.
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
