rockbound

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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 words are supposed to remind the 1,150 students of their school's rockbound commitment to morality, probity and restraint.

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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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A new daytime serial all about a young governess and a ten-year-old boy who live in a brooding, 19th century castle on a precipitous cliff above the raging sea on the rockbound coast of Maine.

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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