rockribbed

As we go, ever the mountains of Mount Desert rise and greet us on our going—somber, rockribbed and silent, looking unmoved on the moving world, yet conscious of their everlasting strength.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

No one will move the 30% (28?) of rockribbed immutable Republicans.

What's Obama's Route To The White House? 2009

As my rockribbed, conservative, Mormon grandma Klea always said "one must avoid even the appearance of evil."

I will rearrange your scales, if I can 2006

Lake Ahquabi, where I did all my formative swimming and sunburning, may not have the romance of Cape Cod or the grandeur of the rockribbed coast of Maine, but then neither did it grab you by the legs and carry you off helplessly to Newfoundland.

I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

As we journeyed through it, viewing the trackless hills and rockribbed mountains not far away on either side, mostly barren and uninviting, it was difficult to conceive of that territory ever becoming the permanent homes of men.

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method

Even the rockribbed Republican stronghold of Pennsylvania was carried by the opposition by a majority of four thousand, reversing

The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905

The jokes are mostly mildewed, rockribbed, and ancient as the sun.

Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886