Word: rockingly
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...Harvard man does not conform to any fixed pattern in thought, word, or action. He has none of the bubbling effervescence springing from the rock of faith in self and college that characterizes those who have dwelt within the sacred precincts of Novel Harbor. Nor has he any of that immature maturity, that attempted sophistication, which marks the sons of freedom's namesake. He has none of that tendency to regard the earth as one huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what...
...iconoclast's hammer waves high 'gainst the stern and rock-bound wall." - Gimlet...
...rock, like a monster...
...faith which only babbles after what another said, which repeats without reflection; he first taught men to look into the great Book for themselves, and see whether there be any voice in nature to justify faith. The result was that Carlyle's faith was as firm as a rock, as any faith must needs be which comes not from authority, but from conviction...
...looked as stiff as Plymouth Rock...