rockbound

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After reeling off a few contemporary images�"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"�he got to Fuller's Maine point: A nd the rockbound coast Is threatened by the super Tankers disgorging crude oil On the tide .

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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.

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He admired the iron and certainty of the traditional Calvinist theology, "stern and rockbound" like the coast of Maine.

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The Bar Harbor elementary school, overlooking summer vacationers looking over the rockbound coast of Maine, seems an unlikely place to originate major medical news about some of the most baffling and intractable diseases of man.

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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