Synonyms for mailed fist
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for mailed fist Other synonyms for the word mailed fist
Définition of mailed fist
- As in iron hand : noun rigorous or stern control
- Why not go after what you want with the like of the mailed fist, and let it go at that?
- Extract from : « Criminal Types » by V. M. Masten
- The mailed fist must be shown that might does not make right!
- Extract from : « Lafayette, We Come! » by Rupert S. Holland
- It is a hard fact which must be faced, if we are not to fall beneath the "mailed fist."
- Extract from : « Spies of the Kaiser » by William Le Queux
- I think the government should not shake the mailed fist at us.'
- Extract from : « In the Days of Poor Richard » by Irving Bacheller
- And the enemy was here with mailed fist thundering at the gates!
- Extract from : « The Conquest of America » by Cleveland Moffett
- Since that date "the mailed fist" of Europe has exacted from the Chinese a forced tolerance of European trade and missions.
- Extract from : « Problems of the Pacific » by Frank Fox
- To describe himself metaphorically as “clad in shining armor” and to shake the “mailed fist” was his constant pose.
- Extract from : « The Evidence in the Case » by James M. Beck
- They could not understand the "mailed fist" stance implicit in the acts.
- Extract from : « The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 » by Virginia State Dept. of Education
- "We are not here to use a mailed fist," Peter Gross remonstrated mildly.
- Extract from : « The Argus Pheasant » by John Charles Beecham
- Incensed at this, Lancelot dealt the fellow a blow with his mailed fist that stretched him senseless on the ground.
- Extract from : « Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
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