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Steely   /stˈili/   Listen
Steely

adjective
1.
Resembling steel as in hardness.  "Steely nerves like those of a steeplejack"
2.
Resembling steel in hardness.





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"Steely" Quotes from Famous Books



... A thousand steely points on every scale Form the bright terrors of his bristly male.— 165 So arm'd, immortal Moore uncharm'd the spell, And slew the wily dragon of the well.— Sudden with rage their injur'd bosoms burn, Retort the insult, ...
— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin
... the cloud-veil lifted; and the mountains of Sinai and Midian, which before had been hidden as if by a November fog in London, again stood out in sharp and steely blue. I proposed to board the gunboat. Afloat we should have been much more comfortable than ashore in the raw, high, and dusty-laden wind. The Egyptian officers, however, quoted the unnautical Fellah's favourite saws, El-barro birr li-Ahlihi—"Earth is a blessing ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton


Words linked to "Steely" :   hard, steel


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