rockbound , also: rock-bound

Breaking waves dashing too high on a stern and rockbound coast.

A steep, rockbound hillside rises to the right.

A rockbound coast, this north shore.

Rockbound eventually won the competition.

We were sailing at the time with great speed, and happened to be near a monstrous iceberg which to all appearances was as immovable as a rockbound island.

It was hard to believe that most of these islands were populated and we often caught glimpses of island ferries plying industriously between lonely rockbound piers.

But Jules was from DesPlaines, with a gravity three times Earth's normal, and his family had lived on that tough, rockbound world for over four centuries.

"I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast."

It was only by misreckonings and the accidents of navigation that, most unfortunately for the prospects of the colony, the settlers landed on the stern and rockbound coast of Plymouth.

Her hull is reflected in the water as she swings at anchor in the quiet harbor; the cargo has been unloaded "on a stern and rockbound coast" a new nation has been born!

"We're object-driven," George Dalgleish, a curator, said, explaining the collection of 10,000 art pieces, personal belongings, tools and household items gathered to give visitors a grasp on the Scotland beyond rockbound coasts, windswept cliffs and baronial, ancestral piles.

"Ten slaves they have to do their labor for every one that we possess; their flocks and herds find lush pasture and sparkling water beside their masters' tents, while ours pick a scant existence across forty thousand square miles of sandy, rockbound desert.

The state of Maine is so poor -it ranks as New England's lowest in per capita income, a criterion that does not include fresh air, wild-running trout streams, lonely lakes, rockbound coves and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - that it must fall back on Benedict Arnold as a hero.