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Examples
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When my skin sags and my bones get brittle, God is rock-firm and faithful.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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When one who has always been rock-firm becomes unstable, it is as if the very walls are about to topple.
The Crystal Gryphon Norton, Andre 1972
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She felt his body rock-firm against hers, his hard arms lifting her up, his mouth fastening mercilessly on hers as she drowned deep in another unexpected flood of desire.
DragonFlight McCaffrey, Anne 1968
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Body rock-firm and taut on legs placed eighteen inches apart, fingers loosely tapping on his holster, ready to draw.
England Under Hitler Clarke, Comer 1961
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This should help us to realize the rock-firm basis of tradition, of use and wont, of patriarchal sanctities, which underlay the working of fifth-century
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She could not leave Christopher, she said simply, and in this she stood rock-firm.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920
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Nora cried bitterly in Mrs. Cameron's arms, but stood rock-firm.
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She could not leave Christopher, she said simply, and in this she stood rock-firm.
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The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.
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The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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