rockbound

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

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

These rockbound bubbles of salt, one or two miles across and sometimes taller than the Rocky Mountains, are the famed salt domes of the Gulf Coast.

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