rockbound
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Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, the Senate had adjourned without the customary vote of thanks to the rather insignificant, the entirely silent, the "stern and rockbound" Vice President.
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
The words are supposed to remind the 1,150 students of their school's rockbound commitment to morality, probity and restraint.
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
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