iron-headed

I don't care how iron-headed you like to think you are.

The Fuel-Sipping Prius Gets a Bigger Brother Dan Neil 2011

I don't care how iron-headed you like to think you are.

The Fuel-Sipping Prius Gets a Bigger Brother Dan Neil 2011

Had he, in his trouble, been drinking with the iron-headed Terrence down in the stag room?

CHAPTER XXIX 2010

It continues to rely on faux-naive phrasing ( "a very gently boy," "played quietly") and an altogther formulaic plot -- the iron-headed boy dies, of course, leaving everyone very sad.

Experimental Fiction 2010

The larger entrance in front was walled up, but a little footpath, which, from its appearance, seemed to be rarely trodden, led to a small wicket, defended by a door well clenched with iron-headed nails, at which Magdalen Graeme knocked three times, pausing betwixt each knock, until she heard an answering tap from within.

The Abbot 2008

As to weapons, they had long iron-headed spears, heavy iron axes, and daggers.

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

With these, and short broadswords and sheaves of iron-headed arrows, they appeared rather ferocious.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

As these people had plenty of iron-headed arrows and some guns, when we came to the edge of the forest I ordered my men to put the luggage in our centre; and, if our enemies did not fire, to cut down some young trees and make a screen as quickly as possible, but do nothing to them except in case of actual attack.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The man had a bow about six feet long, and iron-headed arrows about thirty inches in length; he had also wooden arrows neatly barbed, to shoot in cases where he might not be quite certain of recovering them again.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Nothing my backward, iron-headed relatives said or did made me lose sight of my goal.

Wild Orchids Jude Deveraux 2003