What is "rocklike"

Usage examples of "rocklike".

The throb rose sharply into a harsh, reverberating yowl, then lapsed into an almost rocklike three-quarter-time backbeat behind a moody chord sequence in B-flat.

Vigor and rocklike endurance marked the clashes, and both regulars and scrubs had to punt and punt again.

All such women were expected to be pious, to have imperturbable poise, rocklike dedication to the covenants, and a broad background of conversational information covering all the fields of general interest in Haven.

Very likely he seemed to himself to be standing just and rocklike and with neither haste nor anger while on all sides the sluttishness of weak human men seethed in a long sigh of terror about the actual representative of the wrathful and retributive Throne.

They are her special marks, and every ruler should have such a mark to prove his power and the rocklike nature of his words Zouga turned and beckoned the bearer who knelt in the gateway behind him and the terrified man crawled to Zouga's feet, not daring to look up at the King, and handed to Zouga the small tea caddy that contained the carved ivory seal and the sticks of wax.

Only Andrew, Mae, and Antoine stood rocklike and unshakable among the panicking Voodoos, each sealed in a bubble of determined antagonism.

But it was Wei Feng who spoke first, his deeply lined face grown stern and rocklike as he sat stiffly upright in his chair.

He used to collect these huge rocklike fragments in the west country where they are fairly common.