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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rebel defeat echoes the experiences of other nations, from Colombia to Russia, where hard-fisted tactics defeated extremist foes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ T. Thomas Fortune (2007)

Mr. Putin's hard-fisted rule today bookends his earlier career with the Soviet Union's state security apparatus, the KGB. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Weary of war and the hard-fisted neo-Taliban, they yearn for something a little better for their children, just as Canadians do. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“No, but a hard-fisted fellow is the only man that will suit my daughter.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Bertha was a good-natured romp, hard-fisted, thick of leg, and of a plodding but ineffectual industry. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It was my fortune to be the referee on all disputes on the accounts of the first year of such contracts, and I solemnly declare the liberality and consideration of the planters would astonish the hard-fisted business-men of some of our factories. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Dad said that he had the reputation of being tricky and hard-fisted," answered Herb. ❋ Allen Chapman (N/A)

Of all the God-forsaken, shaggy-haired, red-faced, un-shorn, hard-fisted, blasphemous wretches that have ever congregated, even at the gallows at Newgate, many of the visitors of the Peace wing of the Democracy were entitled to the first consideration. ❋ I. Windslow Ayer (N/A)

Then the hungry boy gathered his sacks together, and in broad daylight went into Carlon's corn; and when the hard-fisted farmer set upon him, the angry boy flew at him like a beast. ❋ Various (N/A)

The steamer was detained several hours at Natchez, where she was supplied with wood and water, and during the delay a huge, hard-fisted boatman, somewhat the worse for a poor article of strychnine whiskey, made himself very conspicuous and exceedingly obnoxious by the continual iteration of his intense desire to fight some one. ❋ Various (N/A)