Ironlike

Fang “became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nylan didn't feel that ironlike, not at all, and he wondered again how long before the shoulder would heal completely. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1997)

'I will kill this bull/he muttered, bearing down with all the force of his ironlike body. ❋ Michener, James (1992)

His ironlike nails raked her back, tearing open the copper mesh dress. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (1990)

Among the trees reared a broken domelike structure, built of gigantic blocks of the peculiar ironlike green stone found only on the islands of Vilayet. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1974)

A single false turn of the wheel, and the _Searcher_ would have been dashed to atoms against the ironlike rocks on each side, above, and below. ❋ Roy Rockwood (N/A)

The other was a great, grey man whom age apparently had not weakened but rather settled and hardened into an ironlike durability; the winds of time or misfortune would have to break that stanch oak before it would bend. ❋ Max Brand (1918)

His uniform, creased and stained, and now silvery with dew, flapped about a gaunt ironlike frame; and from under the leather peak of his kepi, even in his fever, his eyes burned steady and compelling. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

That, together with the hardness of his eye, the cruelty of his mouth, and the absolute lack of softness anywhere in the ironlike face or frame -- all this condemned the monster for what he was; inhuman. ❋ Homer Eon Flint (1908)

Straight against the ironlike claws he drove, reckless in the grasp of the anger that had exploded within him at the unfair trick. ❋ Henry Oyen (1902)

It would almost seem that the same great hand which chiseled out these monumental forms had also laid its fingers upon the people of this region and fashioned them rude and ironlike, in harmony with the stern faces set about them. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

He stooped and clutched the broken war axe, grasping the stone head in the palm of his great hand, the jagged and ironlike shaft projecting from between his ringers like the blade of a dagger. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

Though it's treated with a water softener, the water in the shower still gives alternately a sulfurous and ironlike smell. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Papa’s ironlike hands closed down on my shoulders. ❋ V.C. Andrews® (2010)