hard-fisted

• “The most characteristic thing about Kipling is his love of actuality, his intense practicality, his proper and necessary respect for the hard-headed, hard-fisted fact.”

  These Bones shall Rise Again - Essay by Jack London

• “The rebel defeat echoes the experiences of other nations, from Colombia to Russia, where hard-fisted tactics defeated extremist foes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Sri Lanka Declares Rebel Chief Dead, Ending War

• “Weary of war and the hard-fisted neo-Taliban, they yearn for something a little better for their children, just as Canadians do.”

  Afstan: Babbling's main point made in Toronto Star

• “His friends have seen, more than once, coming from his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in his employ, with tears streaming down their faces.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black and White

• “Mr. Putin's hard-fisted rule today bookends his earlier career with the Soviet Union's state security apparatus, the KGB.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Putin's Past, Glimpses

• “Perhaps because my life began there — there lie the years of my youth: dreamy hard-fisted years that stood their watch backwards across the seas; the years when muscles in the upper arm and the solar plexus grew and hardened in the endless shovel-play.”

  Harry Martinson: Catching the Dewdrop, Reflecting the Cosmos

• “He glories in his hard-fisted forefathers, of the iron girdle and the handful of oat-meal, who rode so swiftly and lived so sparely on their raids.”

  Memories and Portraits

• ““No, but a hard-fisted fellow is the only man that will suit my daughter.””

  La Vend�e

• “But The Hague's hard-fisted policies aroused a strong international reaction not only among newly independent Asian countries, such as India, but also among members of the UN Security Council, including the United States.”

  Archive 2004-11-01

• “Bertha was a good-natured romp, hard-fisted, thick of leg, and of a plodding but ineffectual industry.”

  The Getting of Wisdom

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