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  • They grappled, and the agent used his steelclad head to bludgeon his enemy into submission.

    Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000

  • In the center of the Aquilonian host the great lion banner streamed its billowing black folds over the steelclad figure on the black stallion.

    The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977

  • We give him something else, too, a steelclad guarantee that his name will be on the rolls of the Junior Pioneers of the Moon, which same will be placed in a monument to be erected on the Moon at the landing site of the first Moon ship-in microfilm, of course; we have to watch weight.

    The Man Who Sold The Moon Heinlein, Robert A. 1953

  • The descendant of the chivalrous and steelclad De Rockvilles was sunk into a restless spy on his own ample property.

    International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

  • The steelclad Russian Bear emerges, glaring: the old whitebearded man starts not, -- paces on unmoved, looking into him with those clear old earnest eyes, with that venerable sorrowful time-worn face; of whom no man or thing need be afraid, and who also is afraid of no created man or thing.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The steelclad Russian bear emerges, glaring: the old white-bearded man starts not, -- paces on unmoved, looking into him with those clear old earnest eyes, with that venerable sorrowful time-worn face; of whom no man or thing need be afraid, and who also is afraid of no created man or thing.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • We give him something else, too, a steelclad guarantee that his name will be on the rolls of the Junior Pioneers of the Moon, which same will be placed in a monument to be erected on the Moon at the landing site of the first Moon ship-in microfilm, of course; we have to watch weight. "

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

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