rockbound

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Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands.

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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."

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He had been the front runner, the sincere, often eloquent Abe Lincoln with the rockbound Maine integrity �who contrasted so sharply with the expedient, unlovable Richard Nixon.

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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."

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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